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Microsoft and the BMW Group launch the Open Manufacturing Platform

“Companies are partners in a new initiative to drive open industrial IoT development and help grow a community to build future Industry 4.0 solutions Technology framework and open community to share smart factory solutions across the automotive and manufacturing …

Open Source Release coming for Microsoft’s Quantum Development Kit

“Our ambition is to make quantum computing more accessible so that developers can help solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. The power to achieve that vision comes when every developer can collaborate, share code, and build upon …

20 Years Ago, Microsoft Changed How We Mouse Forever

“Twenty years ago, in April 1999, Microsoft introduced an update to its IntelliMouse line of input devices. On top it didn’t look much different than its predecessors—it still had a few buttons and a scroll wheel—but underneath …

Bosque Programming Language

“The Bosque programming language is designed for writing code that is simple, obvious, and easy to reason about for both humans and machines. The key design features of the language provide ways to avoid accidental complexity in the development and …

Microsoft acquires Express Logic, accelerating IoT development for billions of devices at scale

“IoT sensors are being infused into just about everything, from industrial equipment to consumer devices, and increasingly these devices are connecting to the cloud. By 2020, Gartner predicts there will be more than 20 billion connected devices*. In April 2018 …

Google and other tech giants are quietly buying up the most important part of the internet

“Google makes billions from its cloud platform. Now it’s using those billions to buy up the internet itself — or at least the submarine cables that make up the internet backbone. In February, the company announced its intention to move …

Hardware innovation for data growth challenges at cloud-scale

“The Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit 2019 kicks off today in San Jose where a vibrant and growing community is sharing the latest in innovation to make hardware more efficient, flexible, and scalable. For Microsoft, our journey with OCP …

Researchers Break Efficiency Record for Data Transfer in Ultra-fast Transatlantic Cable

“A new experiment has achieved a record fiber optic cable capacity of 26.2 terabits per second across more than 6,000 kilometers of the MAREA transatlantic fiber optic cable. If you are making an overseas phone call or using …

The Microsoft Simple Encrypted Arithmetic Library goes open source

“Today we are extremely excited to announce that our Microsoft Simple Encrypted Arithmetic Library (Microsoft SEAL), an easy-to-use homomorphic encryption library developed by researchers in the Cryptography Research group at Microsoft, is open source on GitHub under an MIT License …

Learn at your own pace with Microsoft Quantum Katas

“For those who want to explore quantum computing and learn the Q# programming language at their own pace, we have created the Quantum Katas – an open source project containing a series of programming exercises that provide immediate feedback as you …