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• Microsoft OneDrive will beam your files to Windows 10 on demand starting this fall

  Microsoft announced that its OneDrive service is getting a useful feature to make your files available on your device without ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Windows Story Remix is Movie Maker on steroids

  Microsoft today announced the launch of Windows Story Remix - the company's brand new creative application designed to let Windows 10 users easily edit photos and create video content. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh0be6z-Zl8 Windows Story Remix bring the ability to create ...

  • Matthew Hughes

• Windows 10 gets a UI refresh with the 'Fluent Design System' (AKA Project Neon)

  Just as expected, Microsoft has revealed the long-rumored Project Neon - Windows 10's big UI refresh - at its Build conference in Seattle. Except, it has a new name: The Microsoft Fluent Design System. Given that's a mouthful, lets all just go ahead and call it 'Fluent' for short. If ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Diversity takes center stage at Microsoft Build

  It happens every year. At major tech events across the country, white guy after white guy takes the stage to hype innovative new products at Apple, Google, Microsoft and others. If we’re lucky, we might get a token person of color, or perhaps even a female speaker to remind us ...

  • Esther Cohen

• Here's what you missed at Microsoft Build 2017 (Day One)

  Today in Seattle, Microsoft kicked off its annual developer conference, Build. Build is a conference by developers, and for developers, so we don't get the consumer-facing technology at the same scale as other dev events, like those from Google, Facebook, and Apple, but we still have ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Microsoft's Custom Vision lets you build computer vision AI models in minutes

  I love Microsoft's Cognitive Services. It's taken something incredibly complicated - artificial intelligence and machine learning - and turned it into something that's not just easy, but also commoditized. The latest addition to Microsoft's Cognitive Service is Custom Vision, which ...

  • Matthew Hughes

• Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft's new database for globally-distributed applications

  Today at Microsoft's Build Conference in Seattle, the company launched Azure Cosmos DB - a brand new schemaless database system designed for large, globally-distributed, data-intensive applications. Azure Cosmos DB is a superset of the existing DocumentDB service, and Microsoft ...

  • Matthew Hughes

• Microsoft's extensible Graph API can turn any device into a productivity tool

  At its Build developer conference, Microsoft showed how developers can extend its Graph API to turn just about any device ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Microsoft now lets any developer create Cortana skills

  Following up its promise from December, Microsoft has opened up the Cortana Skills Kit preview for developers. That will open up Microsoft's AI to numerous new custom abilities. To make it easier for to get started, Microsoft says developers can simply reuse the a lot of the ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Microsoft's wicked-smart camera AI tracks people and equipment to keep workers safe

  Artificial intelligence is going to radically change the workplace. But not just in terms of eliminating jobs, but also by making them measurably safer. Today at Microsoft's Build conference in Seattle, Andrea Carl, Director of Commercial Communications at Microsoft, demonstrated ...

  • Matthew Hughes

• Microsoft PowerPoint can now translate your presentations on the fly

  At its Build conference, Microsoft unveiled a handy plugin for its PowerPoint presentation app that allows for instant translation ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Build 2017: What to expect from Microsoft's biggest developer conference

  Microsoft's Build developer conference is nearly upon us. The announcement extravaganza is taking place from May 10 - 12 in Seattle (as opposed to its usual location in California) , and will set the stage for new Windows features over the next year. Build is a developer conference, ...

  • Napier Lopez