When Hanna Wallach first started testing machine learning models, the tasks were well-defined and easy to evaluate. Did the model correctly identify the cats in an image? Did it accurately predict the ...

Microsoft purchased Skype for $8.5 billion, deepening the company’s longstanding focus on real-time video and voice communications, and providing new market opportunities serving Skype’s 160-plus ...

Judson Althoff is the chief executive officer of the commercial business at Microsoft. He is responsible for the product strategy, sales, services, support, marketing, operations and revenue growth of ...

Today, we share our vision for the next era of the Windows PC, where the PC and the cloud intersect and tap into innovative AI technology that unlocks new experiences. So that each of us can ...

Bill Gates announced Microsoft Windows, a graphical user interface for its MS-DOS operating system that he described as “unique software designed for the serious PC user.” Offering device-independent ...

Tucked away on Microsoft’s Redmond campus is a lab full of machines probing the basic building block of the digital age: Silicon. This multi-step process meticulously tests the silicon, in a method ...

The chips that datacenters use to run the latest AI breakthroughs generate much more heat than previous generations of silicon. Anybody whose phone or laptop has overheated knows that electronics ...

In its annual Digital Defense Report, covering trends from July 2023 to July 2024, Microsoft highlights the alarming rise in cyberattacks during growing geopolitical tensions. The report reveals that ...

Computing has already accelerated scientific discovery. Now scientists say a combination of advanced AI with next-generation cloud computing is turbocharging the pace of discovery to speeds ...

Earlier this summer, marine specialists reeled up a shipping-container-size datacenter coated in algae, barnacles and sea anemones from the seafloor off Scotland’s Orkney Islands. The retrieval ...

In recent years, some of the world’s fastest growing companies have deployed artificial intelligence to solve specific business problems. In fact, according to new market research from Microsoft on ...

On Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, Washington, old buildings have fallen and fresh steel has risen as the land takes shape for new, modern structures across 72 acres. Workers have carved and sculpted ...