Microsoft Ignite
Microsoft announces $40 million AI for Humanitarian Action program
by Pradeep
1 year
At Ignite 2018 conference yesterday, Microsoft announced the new AI for Humanitarian Action program. This is a $40 million, 5-year initiative that will use the power of AI to focus on helping the world recover from disasters, addr...
Microsoft announces Azure Digital Twins that allows you to build next-gen IoT spatial intelligence solutions
by Pradeep
1 year
At Ignite 2018 conference today, Microsoft announced a brand new service called Azure Digital Twins. It is a new platform for digital models and spatially aware solutions that can be applied to any physical environment. You can us...
Microsoft brings Files On-Demand and Dark Mode to OneDrive for Mac
by Pradeep
1 year
Today at Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft announced two new features for OneDrive for Mac. First, Microsoft is bringing OneDrive Files On-Demand feature for Mac. Using this feature, you can access all your personal and work files from ...
Microsoft announces updates to Cosmos DB and new Azure SQL DB hyper scale service tier
by Pradeep
1 year
At Ignite 2018 today, Microsoft announced updates to Azure Cosmos DB. First, Microsoft is adding multi-master support in Azure Cosmos DB to offer high levels of availability and single-digit millisecond latency. Second, the new Ca...
Microsoft announces SQL Server 2019 Preview with several big data capabilities
by Pradeep
1 year
Last week, we reported about a leaked video on the upcoming SQL Server 2019 release. Today at Ignite 2108 conference, Microsoft officially announced the new SQL Server 2019 preview with new big data capabilities. SQL Server 2019...
Meet Microsoft Search, a new enterprise search experience
by Pradeep
1 year
Last year, Microsoft first revealed the personalized search experience across Office 365. Today at Ignite 2018, Microsoft announced Microsoft Search, a new organizational search experience that will be available inside Office apps...
New AI feature in Office apps will offer suggestions for designs, layouts and images
by Pradeep
1 year
At Ignite 2018 keynote today, Microsoft revealed a brand new feature called Ideas for Office apps. Ideas will help users take advantage of the power of AI with a single click to launch intelligent recommendations. The Ideas engin...
Microsoft aims to eliminate the usage of passwords in the enterprise
by Pradeep
1 year
Most of the data breaches are caused by compromised passwords. In order to prevent such breaches in the future, Microsoft today made an important announcement at Ignite 2018 conference to kill the usage of passwords in the enterpr...
New Cortana Skills Kit for Enterprise allows enterprises to build custom skills and agents
by Pradeep
1 year
Cortana Skills Kit allows developers to integrate their experiences (bots, web services, apps, and websites) with Cortana. At Ignite 2018 today, Microsoft today announced the new Cortana Skills Kit for Enterprise that will enable ...
Microsoft deepens integration of LinkedIn with Office apps
by Pradeep
1 year
At Ignite 2018 today, Microsoft today announced new integrations between LinkedIn and Office 365. With the new integration, you will be able to coauthor documents with people in your LinkedIn network in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint...
You can now take a picture of a data table and turn it into an Excel spreadsheet
by Pradeep
1 year
At Ignite 2018, Microsoft today announced a new feature that will allow you to capture a photo of a hand-drawn or printed data table and turn it into an Excel spreadsheet. Once the data is available on Excel, it can be edited, an...