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Microsoft acquires Minit to strengthen process mining capabilities
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Photo courtesy of Minit. Today, Microsoft is announcing the acquisition of Minit, a leader in process mining technology that enables businesses to uncover opportunities for continuous process improvement and better operational efficiency. Organizations across the globe are seeking to be more operationally resilient and accelerate their digital transformation plans. Seamless operations and ensuring that every component of each business process runs smoothly is critical, but most leaders are not able to understand the actual performance of their processes and end up making decisions based on subjective information. Gartner® notes that “Recent trends in automation…
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Empowering families through every stage, phase and season
by Guest Ami Silverman- 0 replies
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Each April we celebrate Families month at Microsoft, and our theme this year is “Empowering everyone through every stage, phase and season of our personal and professional lives.” The Families Employee Resource Group (ERG) has a vision to support employees in whatever family role they play. Collectively, we discard the idea that one can leave one’s personal life at the door when coming to work, because the modern reality is that our work lives are no longer fully separate from our personal lives. Being our whole selves means balancing a wide variety of personal and work responsibilities that all come with a host of expected and unexpected challenges. With the right suppor…
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From resilience to digital perseverance: How organizations are using digital technology to turn the corner in unprecedented times
by Guest Judson Althoff- 0 replies
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Photo credit: Weiquan Lin/Getty Images Our annual partner conference, Microsoft Inspire, just concluded. The conversations I had with Microsoft’s partner community echo those I have had recently with leaders from both established organizations and earlier-stage enterprises. Leaders across industries share a commitment to innovation as the only path forward through uncertainty in global markets, especially as they continue to strengthen their security posture, reduce their carbon footprint, inject more visibility into their supply chains, and promote more inclusive prosperity in the communities where they operate. I see this shared commitment as part of a trend I cal…
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Passkeys on Windows just got easier! As part of Microsoft’s vision for a passwordless future we are working to make passkeys on Windows simple and intuitive. Passkeys are safer and easier to use than passwords, which are vulnerable to phishing and data breaches. That is why, in support of a passwordless future, we partnered in the FIDO alliance with other platforms in supporting passkeys. As part of our cross-industry commitment, we launched new native support for cross-device authentication and an updated experience to help users along the journey from website to platform. Continuing that journey at Authenticate 2024 we are introducing the following, which will be availa…
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This ‘hands-on’ AI-based test project will help ensure astronaut gloves are safe in space
by Guest Tom Keane- 0 replies
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) aren’t space tourists. They’re workers, scientists and engineers. They are doing critical science missions in an intense operating environment where safety is paramount. On spacewalks they repair equipment, install new instruments and upgrade the largest spacecraft ever flown. Just like workers here on Earth, their gloves can show wear and tear – even rips and cuts – presenting potential safety concerns. To prevent problems from arising, astronauts working for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) must take photos of their spacesuit gloves during and after every spacewalk and transmit them down …
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We are proud to announce that version 1.6 of the Windows App SDK is now available! Whether you’re looking for the incredible performance boost and footprint reduction of Native AOT support, enhancements for deploying your package, or quality of life improvements for controls like PipsPager and RatingControl, WinAppSDK 1.6 offers a raft of new features, performance boosts and structural changes that enable you to make your native Windows apps better than ever before. The Windows App SDK provides a rich set of APIs and tools to help you build beautiful and fast Windows desktop apps, including any C++ Win32 or C# .NET app. You can harness the modern controls and polish of …
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Building a quantum-safe future
by Guest Charlie Bell- 0 replies
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As innovation has progressed through radio, the internet, Wi-Fi, smartphones, and the Internet of Things, we have consistently faced security concerns with each technological milestone. Every new and disruptive technology comes with both opportunities and challenges. With AI, we are heeding this lesson from the past and proactively addressing the security challenges that will inevitably arise. Yet while the AI revolution feels like the biggest innovation in a generation, scaled quantum computing is set to disrupt many aspects of technology again — and we must prepare for it now. Quantum computing at scale has the potential to help solve many of the world’s most c…
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AI is transforming the way we interact with technology, enabling new and improved experiences across a variety of scenarios. DirectML empowers developers to bring their AI innovations to Windows and utilize local hardware acceleration to scale across the breadth of Windows devices. Today, we are excited to share how DirectML continues to expand platform support for NPUs on Copilot+ PCs and WebNN. DirectML now supports Copilot+ PCs, powered by Snapdragon® X Elite Compute Platform We are thrilled to announce that DirectML now supports Copilot+ PCs, powered by Qualcomm® Hexagon NPU in the Snapdragon® X Elite Compute Platform. Copilot+ PCs bring exceptional performance and en…
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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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We are thrilled to announce the 2024 Microsoft Store App Awards, a testament to our continued commitment to honor and celebrate developers for their exceptional quality, creativity and originality of Windows apps and games. Whether you're a developer or a fan of a fantastic app, we invite you to submit your nomination. If you don’t have your app on Microsoft Store yet, it’s not too late! Publish your app by Sept. 15, 2024, and participate in the awards to compete for incredible prizes, like Surface Pro Limited Edition Copilot+ PCs*. The Microsoft Store offers developers a unique opportunity to reach a vast audience of over a billion Windows users. By distributing yo…
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Prompts for communicators using the new AI-powered Bing
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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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Your feedback matters – each week, we get thousands of feedback submissions that we triage, categorize and prioritize. We love the enthusiasm our customers and developers show daily for the Store and all its apps and games – and as product makers, we take that energy forward every day into our craft. Our ultimate goal is to build the best product for you. Today, we’re excited to recap some important quality updates to the Microsoft Store on Windows that we’ve rolled out over the last few months. Upping the ante on performance We have some meaningful improvements to share from our recent work on performance. Overall Store launch time has been reduced by 25%, and we've r…
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October was an exciting month of amazing showcases and announcements for applications leveraging the power of the NPU on the new Copilot+ PCs to deploy their AI innovations on Windows. Windows’ diverse hardware ecosystem empowers developers with a range of options at their fingertips to develop and deploy AI. From client to web apps, DirectML, foundational to Windows Copilot Runtime, aims to uniquely simplify how developers can scale their AI innovations across Windows. Through a single, cross-hardware DirectX API, DirectML works across different hardware architectures, local device accelerators and machine learning frameworks, supporting an open platform for AI on Window…
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Client apps are often the first interaction users have with your services, whether those are cloud native intelligent apps, web-hosted backends or business data. They set the tone for user experience and can offer personalized interactions right from the start. With over 1.5 billion Windows devices worldwide, you have an opportunity to build beautiful, responsive and engaging user experiences that target these devices. Regardless of whether you are a web developer or a native app developer, you likely want to reach the most client devices possible with great user experiences in the most efficient way possible. Developing great client apps helps you connect with users, sc…
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Microsoft donation to the Smithsonian Latino Center celebrates and supports community history and culture
by Guest Rodrigo Kede Lima- 0 replies
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Rendering of the Molina Family Latino Gallery Digital Plaza. Courtesy of the Smithsonian Latino Center. Today, Microsoft is honored to announce a $1 million donation to the Smithsonian Latino Center to support the new National Museum of the American Latino and the development of the Molina Family Latino Gallery. The National Museum of the American Latino is the Smithsonian’s first museum space dedicated to celebrating the U.S. Hispanic and Latinx community experience. While the larger museum is being built, our contributions will support the development of the Molina Family Latino Gallery in the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. The new museum …
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Windows is an open platform that enables all categories of applications to thrive. From individual developers to distributed projects, open-source initiatives and large companies, the vibrant developer community is building innovative, engaging and practical apps for Windows users around the world. And the best place for users to discover that content is through the Microsoft Store on Windows. You can find more information on our commitment to developers, and how to onboard into the Microsoft Store. We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2024 Microsoft Store Awards! This year, we invited nominations from our developer community and selected winners across 14 cat…
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Sustainable by design: Advancing the sustainability of AI
by Guest Melanie Nakagawa- 0 replies
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During the past year, the pace of AI adoption has accelerated significantly, ushering in groundbreaking advances, discoveries and solutions with the potential to help address humanity’s biggest problems. We see this as a massive platform shift, akin to the printing press, which was not just an invention, but a technology that shaped a new economy. Alongside the incredible promise and benefits of AI, we recognize the resource intensity of these applications and the need to address the environmental impact from every angle. In line with our commitment to responsible AI and our ambitious sustainability commitments, we’re determined to tackle this challenge so the world ca…
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Advancing science: Microsoft and Quantinuum demonstrate the most reliable logical qubits on record with an error rate 800x better than physical qubits
by Guest Jason Zander- 0 replies
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Quantinuum scientists making adjustments to a beam line array used to deliver laser pulses in H-Series quantum computers. Photo courtesy of Quantinuum. Today signifies a major achievement for the entire quantum ecosystem: Microsoft and Quantinuum demonstrated the most reliable logical qubits on record. By applying Microsoft’s breakthrough qubit-virtualization system, with error diagnostics and correction, to Quantinuum’s ion-trap hardware, we ran more than 14,000 individual experiments without a single error. Furthermore, we demonstrated more reliable quantum computation by performing error diagnostics and corrections on logical qubits without destroying them. This fin…
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Passkeys on Windows just got easier! As part of Microsoft’s vision for a passwordless future we are working to make passkeys on Windows simple and intuitive. Passkeys are safer and easier to use than passwords, which are vulnerable to phishing and data breaches. That is why, in support of a passwordless future, we partnered in the FIDO alliance with other platforms in supporting passkeys. As part of our cross-industry commitment, we launched new native support for cross-device authentication and an updated experience to help users along the journey from website to platform. Continuing that journey at Authenticate 2024 we are introducing the following, which will be availa…
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Announcing new Microsoft AI Hub in London
by Guest Mustafa Suleyman, EVP and CEO of Microsoft AI- 0 replies
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Microsoft recently announced the creation of Microsoft AI, a newly formed organization to help advance our consumer AI products and research, including Copilot. Building on that news, I’m thrilled to share that Microsoft AI is opening a new AI hub in the heart of London. Microsoft AI London will drive pioneering work to advance state-of-the-art language models and their supporting infrastructure, and to create world-class tooling for foundation models, collaborating closely with our AI teams across Microsoft and with our partners, including OpenAI. The new AI hub will be led by Jordan Hoffmann, an exceptional AI scientist and engineer. Prior to joining Microsoft AI, H…
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We are proud to announce that version 1.6 of the Windows App SDK is now available! Whether you’re looking for the incredible performance boost and footprint reduction of Native AOT support, enhancements for deploying your package, or quality of life improvements for controls like PipsPager and RatingControl, WinAppSDK 1.6 offers a raft of new features, performance boosts and structural changes that enable you to make your native Windows apps better than ever before. The Windows App SDK provides a rich set of APIs and tools to help you build beautiful and fast Windows desktop apps, including any C++ Win32 or C# .NET app. You can harness the modern controls and polish of …
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Microsoft and G42 partner to accelerate AI innovation in UAE and beyond
by Guest Judson Althoff- 0 replies
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[HEADING=2]Strategic partnership highlights:[/HEADING] Expansion of partnership between Microsoft and G42 to deliver advanced AI solutions with Microsoft Azure across various industries and markets. Microsoft will invest $1.5 billion in G42 for a minority stake in G42 and join its board of directors. Companies will support the establishment of a $1 billion fund for developers to boost AI skills in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and broader region. [HEADING=2]Expanded strategic partnership:[/HEADING] Today, we announced a strategic investment in G42, a leading AI company in the UAE, to co-innovate and deliver advanced AI solutions with Microsoft Azure for various…