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Ignite Hero The second installment of Microsoft Ignite November 2021 kicks off today, November 2nd, at 4.15 CET with the opening keynote by Satya Nadella. The conference runs through to November 4th. Many of the sessions can be watched on-demand after the event but not all of them. In this article, I’m going to cut […] Continue reading Microsoft Ignite – Highlights for IT Pros
As the pandemic drags on and we learn about the requirements of working from home with distributed teams, users could be craving more integration across their tools to help reduce the clicks required to complete a set of tasks. Today at the Ignite Conference, Microsoft announced tighter integration between its business suite Dynamics 365 and […] Continue reading Microsoft brings tighter integration to Dynamics 365 and Teams
Microsoft today announced Azure Percept, its new hardware and software platform for bringing more of its Azure AI services to the edge. Percept combines Microsoft’s Azure cloud tools for managing devices and creating AI models with hardware from Microsoft’s device partners. The general idea here is to make it far easier for all kinds of […] Continue reading Microsoft launches Azure Percept, its new hardware and software platform to bring AI to the edge
At its Ignite conference today, Microsoft announced the launch of Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra, its latest NoSQL database offering and a competitor to Cassandra-centric companies like Datastax. Microsoft describes the new service as a ‘semi-managed offering that will help companies bring more of their Cassandra-based workloads into its cloud. “Customers can easily take […] Continue reading Microsoft Azure expands its NoSQL portfolio with Managed Instances for Apache Cassandra
Microsoft today announced Power Fx, a new low-code language that takes its cues from Excel formulas. Power Fx will become the standard for writing logic customization across Microsoft’s own low-code Power Platform, but since the company is open-sourcing the language, Microsoft also hopes that others will implement it as well and that it will become […] Continue reading Microsoft launches Power Fx, a new open source low-code language
It’s (virtual) Microsoft Ignite this week, Microsoft’s annual IT-centric conference and its largest, with more than 26,000 people attending the last in-person event in 2019. Given its focus, it’s no surprise that Microsoft Teams is taking center stage in the announcements this year. Teams, after all, is now core to Microsoft’s productivity suite. Today’s announcements […] Continue reading Microsoft updates Teams with new presentation features