Microsoft open sources its Azure Container Service Engine and launches deeper Kubernetes integration

 The open source Kubernetes container management project is probably the most popular of the various competing container management services available today. The Cloud Native Compute Foundation, which plays host to the open source side of Kubernetes, is hosting its first Kubernetes conference this week and unsurprisingly, we’ll see quite a bit of container-related news in the next few… Read More

Microsoft brings back the traveling salesman with new WeWork partnership

 WeWork has long been a place for small startups and solo entrepreneurs to grab a desk and get to work, all with the flexibility of month-to-month payment. But today has signed on a rather huge client in the form of Microsoft. WeWork and Microsoft are starting the “City as a Campus” partnership, which gives 300 of MSFT’s Office 365 Sales team total access to all of… Read More

Dell is making a dual-screen Surface Studio-like device, and it even has a dial

 Microsoft impressed a lot of people last week with its announcement of the Surface Studio, a desktop-tablet hybrid with a clever and elegant dial interface. Apparently Dell has been thinking along the same lines, because they just teased something very, very similar — right down to the dial. Read More

Microsoft Teams feels like deja vu all over again

 Microsoft introduced Microsoft Teams today to much fanfare and hoopla, as only Microsoft can seem to do these days, but when you take a close look at today’s announcement, what have you really got here — a 10 year old idea on how to communicate and collaborate in the enterprise with a distinctly Microsoft twist. As I wrote previously about Slack and more recently Facebook Spaces… Read More

Hands-on with Microsoft Teams

 Teams throws a lot of you, right out of the gate. That’s due no doubt in part to the fact that competitors like Slack already have a sizable head start on Microsoft’s workplace collaboration tool. More to the point, though, is that, while the company is late to the party, it’s got about as good a business suite infrastructure as anyone can ask for, from Office 365 to Skype. In… Read More

Teams, Microsoft’s Slack competitor, is official

 It’s been a busy few fall for Microsoft. A week after throwing a big Windows/Surface party, the software giant has returned to the Big Apple for its latest piece of news. Clearly the company was just too excited to keep its latest addition to Office 365 under wraps, posting up a launch video just prior to the event’s official kickoff. Today’s event kicked off with that… Read More

Microsoft strives to give computers common sense with Concept Graph

 Today, Microsoft Research is publicly releasing its effort to tackle just one of the problems plaguing natural language understanding — knowledge. The company believes that background knowledge is one of the key separators between the way humans and machines understand language. Probase, a knowledge database Microsoft has been working on for quite some time, is serving as the base for… Read More