Author: Adam E. Williams

Author: Adam E. Williams

Microsoft Teams has hit 20 million daily active users, nearly 8 million more than Slack! – #microsoft #Teams #Slack #RoadmapforSuccess
November 19, 2019 Technology Adam E. Williams

Back in July this year, Microsoft announced that Teams has reached 13 million daily active users. Today, Microsoft announced that Teams has reached 20 million active users, a 7 million increase in just about 4 months. For instance, last month Teams customers participated in more than 27 million voice or video meetings and performed over

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Microsoft brings NVIDIA GPU-powered supercomputer to Azure – #microsoft #nvidia #azure
November 19, 2019 Technology Adam E. Williams

At the SC19 supercomputing show in Denver, Microsoft and NVIDIA announced the new NDv2, the world’s largest GPU-accelerated cloud-based supercomputer on Azure. NDv2 VMs are designed specifically for most demanding distributed HPC, AI, and machine learning workloads. These VMs come with 8 NVIDIA Tesla V100 NVLink interconnected GPUs each with 32 GB of HBM2 memory,

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Bing announce new AI-based improvements in image search – #microsoft #bing #search #ai #artificialintelligence
November 18, 2019 Technology Adam E. Williams

Microsoft’s Bing search engine has announced new AI-based improvements to their Bing search engine, particularly the image search section. The improvements enable multi-granularity matches, improved understanding of user queries, images and webpages, as well as the relationships between them. A bit like Google, Microsoft now incorporated BERT/Transformer technology leveraging 1) pre-trained knowledge to better interpret

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Microsoft Ignite 2019 Bing Maps APIs session recordings available – #microsoft #bing #bingmaps #ignite2019 #api
November 18, 2019 Bing Maps Adam E. Williams

The Bing Maps team was in Orlando, Florida, November 4th through the 8th for Microsoft Ignite. If you were not able to attend the event, the session recordings are now available for viewing on https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/. Optimizing Workforce Itinerary Scheduling and Travel Time with Bing Maps Modern workforce management requires state-of-the-art geospatial technologies and solutions. Do

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