Making good on an announcement made earlier this year, Microsoft has installed a version of Apache Hadoop on its Azure cloud service. The company now offers a limited preview version of the ...

Microsoft is open-sourcing its cloud-compression algorithm and optimized hardware implementation for cloud storage. Microsoft is contributing that algorithm, known as ""=""> plus the associated ...

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The Microsoft AI research division accidentally leaked dozens of terabytes of sensitive data starting in July 2020 while contributing open-source AI learning models to a public GitHub repository.

Microsoft is now working with a company called Snyk to try and protect and secure the development of applications and ‘containers’ using open source when running on Microsoft’s Azure Cloud. Snyk ...

Microsoft has taken the time to reiterate that it is aligned with open source technological values. To back up its words, it's offering Azure credits to developers working on open source projects.

Microsoft has truly embraced open source, in a radical shift rare for a big company—and developers should be very happy Microsoft is perhaps the most impressive company on the planet right now. While ...

Microsoft president Brad Smith has posted a blog that lays out how the company plans to support software developers building artificial intelligence (AI). Among the areas he covered included providing ...