#build2020

Microsoft flexed its cloud and AI muscles at Build 2020 This week Microsoft hosted its annual Build conference completely online. That meant streaming keynotes, panels, digital breakouts and workshops for developers. But that didn’t slow down the flow of news. From a new framework for Office collaboration...

Microsoft’s Fluid Framework collaboration comes to Office online You'll be able to get your first taste of Microsoft's upcoming real-time collaboration technology, Fluid Framework, on Office and Outlook web apps, the company announced today. You can think of Fluid Framework as a complete deconstruction of the conc...

Microsoft’s OpenAI supercomputer has 285,000 CPU cores, 10,000 GPUs Last year, Microsoft invested $1 billion in Open AI, a non-profit co-founded by Elon Musk that focuses on the development of human-friendly artificial intelligence. Today at the Build 2020 developer conference, we're seeing the first results of that...

Microsoft’s Lists is a powerful to-do app for businesses Microsoft needs to keep businesses using its software, and is announcing a bunch of updates to its tools at its virtual Build conference today. Among these is a new Lists app that the company is describing as a “smart tracking app across Microsoft 36...

Microsoft’s Cloud for Healthcare is an elaborate suite of telehealth tools At its virtual Build conference today, Microsoft announced it is launching industry-specific cloud offerings, starting with one designed for healthcare. Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare is now available in a public preview and as a free six-month trial...

HoloLens 2 heads to South Korea, Taiwan and more countries It's been over six months since Microsoft's HoloLens 2 started shipping to customers -- now, the company says it's aiming to bring the augmented reality headset to more countries by the end of the year. That includes Spain, Taiwan, South Korea and Ho...

How Microsoft plans to make life easier for Windows developers It's 2020, and Microsoft is still juggling two very different APIs (application programming interfaces) in Windows 10. In one corner, you've got the old-school Win32 API and its decades-long legacy. In the other, there's the Universal Windows Platfor...