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The era of AI: How the Microsoft Cloud is accelerating AI transformation across industries
by Guest Judson Althoff, Executive Vice President and- 0 replies
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© Bolbik / Adobe Stock This past quarter has put a spotlight on advancements in generative AI, and the possibilities of its application to deliver pragmatic business outcomes. For organizations around the world, there is incredible opportunity to enhance products and services while unlocking innovation and business value to help shape the future of industry. The pace and scale of technological innovation happening today is unprecedented and breathes optimism into a demanding economy. Those leveraging the Microsoft Cloud — the most trusted, comprehensive and integrated cloud — are best positioned to take advantage of these advancements. As leaders look to embrace AI…
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The future of manufacturing is now: Four trends shaping the industry
by Guest Dominik Wee, Corporate Vice President- 0 replies
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At its core, manufacturing is about innovation, as it builds economic capacity, bolsters workforces, and generates opportunity and growth. Today we’re seeing the industry undergo a once-in-a-century transformation driven by changing consumer demands, labor challenges, supply chain disruptions, technological advancements and sustainability demands. We’ve come a long way since the industrial revolution, and the industry has evolved into a much more complex place. To explore these challenges and opportunities, we’ll join global leaders and colleagues at the world’s biggest trade show for industrial technology, Hannover Messe. As we enter this week of innovation, we’re dis…
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Introducing Microsoft Security Copilot: Empowering defenders at the speed of AI
by Guest Vasu Jakkal, Corporate Vice President, Security- 0 replies
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The odds are against today’s defenders Today the odds remain stacked against cybersecurity professionals. Too often, they fight an asymmetric battle against prolific, relentless and sophisticated attackers. To protect their organizations, defenders must respond to threats that are often hidden among noise. Compounding this challenge is a global shortage of skilled security professionals, leading to an estimated 3.4 million openings in the field. The volume and velocity of attacks requires us to continually create new technologies that can tip the scales in favor of defenders. Security professionals are scarce, and we must empower them to disrupt attackers’ traditional…
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Microsoft creates new opportunities for partners through AI offerings and expansion of Microsoft Cloud Partner Program
by Guest Nicole Dezen, Chief Partner Officer and Corporate- 0 replies
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We launched the Microsoft Cloud Partner Program last October to meet the changing needs of customers and help our partners succeed. With its robust set of dedicated partner offerings, including new Solutions Partner designations that align to our six commercial solution areas across Azure, Modern Work, Security and Business Applications, we created a place where partners can continue to thrive. Today, I want to detail some of the new investments we’re making to continue to support more of our partners as they invest with Microsoft, grow their businesses and deliver customer success. These investments, like the Cloud Partner Program itself, are designed to not only help…
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Create images with your words – Bing Image Creator comes to the new Bing
by Guest Yusuf Mehdi, Corporate Vice President & Consumer- 0 replies
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Last month we introduced the new AI-powered Bing and Microsoft Edge, your copilot for the web – delivering better search, complete answers, a new chat experience and the ability to create content. Already, we have seen that chat is reinventing how people search with more than 100 million chats to date. We’ve seen people use chat in a variety of ways, from refining answers to complex questions to using it as a form of entertainment or for creative inspiration. Today we’re taking the chat experience to the next level by making the new Bing more visual. We’re excited to announce we are bringing Bing Image Creator, new AI-powered visual Stories and updated Knowledge Cards …
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Breaking new ground in healthcare with the next evolution of AI
by Guest Tom McGuinness, Corporate Vice President, Global- 0 replies
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Since the beginning of modern medicine, the arc of innovation has delivered previously unimaginable breakthroughs and treatments that have improved health outcomes and lengthened lifespans. We are now in an era where digital transformation is redefining the way organizations approach patient engagement, care team collaboration and the provider experience. From better access to patient data through electronic health records (EHR) to improved access to healthcare through telemedicine, technology has given providers solutions that enable greater productivity and, most importantly, improve the quality of care available to patients. But there is an opportunity to do more. T…
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Prompts for communicators using the new AI-powered Bing
by Guest Frank X. Shaw- 0 replies
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[HEADING=2]Summary[/HEADING] The new Bing, your AI-powered copilot for the web, is now in preview, and you might be surprised at how much it can help us be better at our craft of communications. These are some starter prompts to ask Bing, which have helped me and my team in our work over the past few weeks. If you like the answers you find with Bing, remember to follow-up with the source links for more information. The new Bing is in preview, and we’re continuing to take feedback and apply those learnings to improve the experience over time. We’re in the thick of it, for sure. As communications professionals, we’re figuring out what this new age of AI means for …
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Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work
by Guest Jared Spataro, Corporate Vice President, Modern- 0 replies
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Humans are hard-wired to dream, to create, to innovate. Each of us seeks to do work that gives us purpose — to write a great novel, to make a discovery, to build strong communities, to care for the sick. The urge to connect to the core of our work lives in all of us. But today, we spend too much time consumed by the drudgery of work on tasks that zap our time, creativity and energy. To reconnect to the soul of our work, we don’t just need a better way of doing the same things. We need a whole new way to work. Today, we are bringing the power of next-generation AI to work. Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot — your copilot for work. It combines the power of large language…
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Introducing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Copilot, the world’s first copilot in both CRM and ERP, that brings next-generation AI to every line of business
by Guest Charles Lamanna, CVP, Business Applications and- 0 replies
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Today, we’re announcing the next generation of AI product updates across our business applications portfolio, including the launch of the new Microsoft Dynamics 365 Copilot – providing interactive, AI-powered assistance across business functions. According to our recent survey on business trends, nearly 9 out of 10 workers hope to use AI to reduce repetitive tasks in their jobs. With Dynamics 365 Copilot, organizations empower their workers with AI tools built for sales, service, marketing, operations and supply chain roles. These AI capabilities allow everyone to spend more time on the best parts of their jobs and less time on mundane tasks. Customer relationship m…
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From gatekeeper to innovator: How finance teams are using technology to drive strategic innovation
by Guest Georg Glantschnig, VP, Dynamics 365 and- 0 replies
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Chief financial officer (CFO) and finance teams are typically known for their fiscal duties – accounting, expenses and financial planning – that help ensure an organization is compliant and runs smoothly for long-term financial health. Over the past few years, the role of finance teams has drastically evolved to include driving innovation. During the pandemic, CFO guidance was critical to keep organizations running – by closely monitoring revenue and expenses and at times, making tough business decisions. Now, these teams are being asked to expand their role to become futurists and play a leading role in transformation. To learn more about this evolution, Microsoft condu…
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The new Bing preview experience arrives on Bing and Edge Mobile apps; introducing Bing now in Skype
by Guest Yusuf Mehdi, Corporate Vice President & Consumer- 0 replies
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Two weeks ago, we introduced the world to the all new AI-powered Bing and Microsoft Edge — your copilot for the web. Since then, based on strong and positive product feedback and engagement, we’ve welcomed more than one million people in 169 countries off the waitlist into the preview. We continue to expand the preview to more people every day. Our preview community is actively using the breadth of new features across Search, Answers, Chat and Creation with total engagement up significantly. Feedback on the new capabilities is positive, with 71% of testers giving the new Bing a “thumbs up” on the new search and answers capabilities. We’re even more excited about the brea…
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Reinventing search with a new AI-powered Microsoft Bing and Edge, your copilot for the web
by Guest Yusuf Mehdi, Corporate Vice President & Consumer- 0 replies
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To empower people to unlock the joy of discovery, feel the wonder of creation and better harness the world’s knowledge, today we’re improving how the world benefits from the web by reinventing the tools billions of people use every day, the search engine and the browser. Today, we’re launching an all new, AI-powered Bing search engine and Edge browser, available in preview now at Bing.com, to deliver better search, more complete answers, a new chat experience and the ability to generate content. We think of these tools as an AI copilot for the web. “AI will fundamentally change every software category, starting with the largest category of all – search,” said Satya …
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Create more integrated cloud experiences with over 1,400 connectors
by Guest Charles Lamanna, Corporate Vice President- 0 replies
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Last year, I had the opportunity to speak with customers across a wide range of sectors about how they are approaching the current economic climate. Whether they are focusing on increasing efficiency or driving cost savings, we are all essentially trying to do more with less and prioritize investments that will drive the most important and meaningful outcomes. Unfortunately, these resource constraints are coming at a time when data sources and data volumes continue to rise at staggering rates. According to a study published by the IDC, the amount of new data created, captured, replicated and consumed is expected to double in size by 2026. [1] This surge in data means IT d…
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Imagining more: How organizations are reinventing operations and finding opportunity in the face of volatility
by Guest Judson Althoff- 0 replies
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Photo credit: Yuichiro Chino/Getty Images In a rapidly shifting economy, organizations are relying on cloud technologies and intelligent platforms to drive cost efficiencies, while continuing to innovate across their businesses. To provide resiliency and scalability of operations, leaders are collaborating with their customers and partners to design new solutions for the emerging trends and challenges of today’s world. This co-innovation approach results in shared success and new opportunities, from accelerating the pace of digital transformation and reducing the cost of innovation to elevating employee and customer experiences. Microsoft has long adopted a data-d…
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Microsoft and OpenAI extend partnership
by Guest Microsoft Corporate Blogs- 0 replies
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Today, we are announcing the third phase of our long-term partnership with OpenAI through a multiyear, multibillion dollar investment to accelerate AI breakthroughs to ensure these benefits are broadly shared with the world. This agreement follows our previous investments in 2019 and 2021. It extends our ongoing collaboration across AI supercomputing and research and enables each of us to independently commercialize the resulting advanced AI technologies. Supercomputing at scale – Microsoft will increase our investments in the development and deployment of specialized supercomputing systems to accelerate OpenAI’s groundbreaking independent AI research. We will also…
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Subject: Focusing on our short- and long-term opportunity
by Guest Microsoft Corporate Blogs- 0 replies
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Satya Nadella shared the below communication today with Microsoft employees. We’re living through times of significant change, and as I meet with customers and partners, a few things are clear. First, as we saw customers accelerate their digital spend during the pandemic, we’re now seeing them optimize their digital spend to do more with less. We’re also seeing organizations in every industry and geography exercise caution as some parts of the world are in a recession and other parts are anticipating one. At the same time, the next major wave of computing is being born with advances in AI, as we’re turning the world’s most advanced models into a new computing platform.…
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Microsoft announces acquisition of Fungible to accelerate datacenter innovation
by Guest Girish Bablani, Corporate Vice President, Azure- 0 replies
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Today, Microsoft is announcing the acquisition of Fungible Inc., a provider of composable infrastructure aimed at accelerating networking and storage performance in datacenters with high-efficiency, low-power data processing units (DPUs). Fungible’s technologies help enable high-performance, scalable, disaggregated, scaled-out datacenter infrastructure with reliability and security. The Fungible team will join Microsoft’s datacenter infrastructure engineering teams and will focus on delivering multiple DPU solutions, network innovation and hardware systems advancements. Today’s announcement further signals Microsoft’s commitment to long-term differentiated invest…
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M12 ventures down a new path
by Guest Michelle Gonzalez, Corporate Vice President and- 0 replies
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Microsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella with Manny Medina, cofounder and CEO of Outreach, one of M12’s portfolio companies. As we begin a new year, I am delighted to share some exciting changes we’ve made at M12 to better deliver value to our portfolio companies and to Microsoft. While I experimented with ChatGPT while writing this blog post, and have been impressed by its results, I decided on a traditional, human approach. 2022 was quite the year overall, with some exceptional volatility in the startup and venture capital ecosystem. We whipsawed from valuing speed of execution and growth above efficiency, to prizing diligence with guidance tow…
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The future of mobility is now: Five themes to watch at CES 2023
by Guest Sanjay Ravi, General Manager, Automotive- 0 replies
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Vehicles are becoming increasingly smarter, more connected, and software defined. It’s hard to believe a mere 200 years ago, the horse and carriage were the predominant mode of transportation — and had been for hundreds of years. And then, with the invention of the internal combustion engine, moving people and goods changed immensely in a short period of time. Mobility became more accessible, affordable and created opportunities far beyond the scope of imagination. It was that once-in-a-century change that brought us to where we are today. Now, we’re facing another once-in-a-century transformation. The mobility industry is at a critical inflection point. Majo…
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Microsoft names new Chief Sustainability Officer
by Guest Brad Smith, Vice Chair and President of Microsoft- 0 replies
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I’m delighted to share the news that Melanie Nakagawa will join Microsoft in January as our new Chief Sustainability Officer. Reporting directly to me as a Corporate Vice President, Melanie will partner with teams across Microsoft and take on the leadership role for our company-wide environmental sustainability work. Melanie brings to Microsoft almost two decades of environmental sustainability experience at the nexus of policy, business and technology, which will be vital as we continue our sustainability journey. She most recently served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Climate and Energy on the National Security Council at the White Hous…
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App Innovation Report: Prioritizing human pain points to build high-impact experiences
by Guest Kathleen Mitford, Corporate Vice President, Azure- 0 replies
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In October, our Microsoft Ignite event drove incredible dialogue around how organizations can navigate a challenging market. Digital perseverance as encapsulated so well by Judson Althoff, our executive vice president, and chief commercial officer, resonates deeply with us across the Azure business and is sharpening how we think of strategic innovation in the face of headwinds. There’s that word: Innovation. It continues to mean so many things to so many and, honestly, innovation becomes harder to distill amid constrained resources and near-term pressure. As we close 2022, reflecting on our own transformation, we remain inspired by a holistic cloud strategy; one which …
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Empowering the future of financial markets with London Stock Exchange Group
by Guest Judson Althoff- 0 replies
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[HEADING=1]Microsoft looks to generate $5 billion in revenue from LSEG and the financial services sector through 10-year strategic partnership.[/HEADING] Today, we announced a 10-year strategic partnership with the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), a world-leading financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Following LSEG’s acquisition of Refinitiv, a market leader in data services, LSEG has differentiated itself in the market with an end-to-end proposition across trading, execution, data and analytics solutions. Together we look forward to empowering the future of financial markets by delivering next generation data, analytics and workspace solutions that tr…
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Microsoft acquires Lumenisity®, an innovator in hollow core fiber (HCF) cable
by Guest Girish Bablani, Corporate Vice President, Azure- 0 replies
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Today, Microsoft announced it has acquired Lumenisity® Limited, a leader in next-generation hollow core fiber (HCF) solutions. Lumenisity’s innovative and industry-leading HCF product can enable fast, reliable and secure networking for global, enterprise and large-scale organizations. The acquisition will expand Microsoft’s ability to further optimize its global cloud infrastructure and serve Microsoft’s Cloud Platform and Services customers with strict latency and security requirements. The technology can provide benefits across a broad range of industries including healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, retail and government. Organizations within these sector…
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Microsoft continues commitment to US Department of Defense with JWCC selection
by Guest Rick Wagner, President, Microsoft Federal- 0 replies
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The recent announcement by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) selecting Microsoft among the cloud service providers to support its Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract is a significant milestone in the department’s goal to establish an enterprise-level tactical cloud. With the announcement, Microsoft will help deliver mission-critical 21st century technology to our nation’s service members and strengthen U.S. national security. The selection is another clear demonstration of the trust the DoD places in Microsoft and our technologies. Our work on JWCC will build on the success of our industry-leading cloud capabilities to support national security missio…
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Building a more inclusive workplace: Microsoft releases action plan following independent review
by Guest Microsoft Corporate Blogs- 0 replies
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At Microsoft, we take our commitment to creating a safe, inclusive work environment for all employees very seriously. In keeping with this commitment, today we are announcing new steps to prevent discrimination and harassment, following a 2021 proposal that was approved by Microsoft’s shareholders. Based on this proposal, Microsoft’s Board of Directors engaged the law firm of ArentFox Schiff LLP to conduct an independent review of the company’s sexual harassment and gender discrimination policies and practices. ArentFox has completed its work and has provided the Board with a report detailing its findings and recommendations. In addition, the Microsoft management team …