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Making the Windows Insider Program better for our IT Pro and business customers Hi Windows Insiders! Hello from Ignite Australia on the Gold Coast. Here this week, we’re participating in several keynote and breakout sessions featuring the Windows Insider Program and our community. One thing I’m excited to showcase here is our commitment to an important part of the Windows Insider Program, IT Professionals. We’re incredibly honored and empowered by the IT Pros participating in the Windows Insider Program to evaluate Windows 10 and its features as part of their deployment process. We in the Windows Insider Program believe IT Pros play a crucial role in ANY organization as the drivers and enablers of Digital Transformation, regardless of industry. As our CEO Satya Nadella says, “every company is a digital company.” With over 40% of Windows Insiders working in IT, [ more… ]

Cognitive Services APIs: Language In the last post, you saw how AI is used to turn speech into text through the Cognitive Services Speech APIs. Once sounds have been converted into written text, they still have to be distilled for their meaning. Human language, however, is rich in ambiguities and understanding a sentence correctly can sometimes be extremely difficult, even for experienced humans. We have multiple ways to say the same thing (morning star and evening star both denote the planet Venus), while the same sentence can have multiple meanings (‘I just shot an elephant in my pajamas’). The Language APIs attack the problem of meaning from many different angles. There isn’t enough time at the moment to go into all of them in depth, but here’s a quick overview so know what is possible when using the six Cognitive [ more… ]

Five things you need to know about Surface Dial Surface Dial was introduced at our Microsoft Windows 10 Event last year in October. It’s a brand-new kind of peripheral that serves as a tool for the creative process. Whether you’re an artist, student or blogger like me, Surface Dial offers a wide range of utility. Surface Dial optimizes your digital workflow by bringing your most-used shortcuts and tools directly to your screen with simple presses and turns of the Dial. You can use Dial for simple things like adjusting media controls to play music or skip tracks in Groove Music, scrolling through web pages in Microsoft Edge, scrolling through documents in Microsoft Word, and so much more. Let’s jump right in and talk about the five things you need to know about Surface Dial. Five things you need to know [ more… ]

Actiongram says hello to Sanrio’s Hello Kitty and friends Since we launched Actiongram on Microsoft HoloLens, we’ve been hard at work partnering with our creator community to bring them new content and visual effects that showcase the potential for mixed reality storytelling. One of the many pieces of feedback we’ve received is that creators want more celebrity and iconic content around which they can build stories. The community has had so much fun laughing and sword fighting with George Takei and engaging with their favorite characters from Legendary’s Warcraft. Now it is time for us to welcome another beloved character to the Actiongram family! Hello Kitty, will you be mine? Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of Sanrio’s Hello Kitty on Actiongram. What better way to celebrate Valentine’s Day than with Hello Kitty in mixed reality. The new Hello [ more… ]