Microsoft&#8217;s Biggest Pitch To Developers At Build 2019 Was All About Azure
As Microsoft concludes its annual conference for developers, Microsoft Build 2019, the company managed to capture the imagination of developers across the world with its slew of announcements While the biggest surprise came in with the move to bring custom-built Linux kernel within Windows 10, it made a host of other big announcements in the field of AI and ML, thus retaining its focus on AI like the previous years. Project Brainwave, a hardware architecture designed to accelerate real-time AI calculations,  Bot Builder SDKv4, AI Lab and AI for Accessibility were some of the new initiatives that were introduced in 2018, this year Microsoft revealed its new toolkit for AI and robotics. As part of the project, the company also confirmed that it is working on building a new intelligent agent using the toolkit. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella also announced a number of new updates for Microsoft 365, where it has been equipped with a new feature called Ideas In Word, a grammar and auto predict for powered by Natural Language Processing (NLP). However, from Windows to Azure Machine Learning, the tech giant has unrolled a number of new features and updates to its existing products. In this article, we take a look at some of the biggest changes and new announcements made by the company in the field of AI and ML Updates in Azure Machine Learning New updates to Azure Machine Learning is aimed at simplifying the building, training and deployment of machine learning models for enterprises. Capabilities to simplify the development of machine learning models, operationalise models at scale and high-speed inferencing from cloud to edge are of the new updates. Microsoft Bot Framework Enhancements New feature enhancements to the Microsoft Bot Framework allow developers to handle complex dialogues with users while enjoying more natural language experiences. The updates include the ability to improve the dialogue management process — necessitating less code by using adaptive dialogues. Additionally, Language Generation allows developers to decouple language resources for their bot and then manage those resources in separate files, avoiding the need to hardcode bot responses. ML.NET 1.0 ML.NET lets developers create models targeting scenarios based on ML tasks, such as classification, regression, clustering, ranking, recommendations and anomaly detection. It also provides integration with other deep-learning frameworks, such as TensorFlow, and it offers interoperability through ONNX. New knowledge mining capabilities in Azure Search Cognitive search capability, the content-understanding feature within Azure Search, now offers a single mechanism to apply a series of pre-built and custom AI models to data. In addition, a new knowledge store capability in cognitive search enables developers to further leverage the insights and metadata they extracted from the cognitive search pipeline. Updates to Azure Cognitive Services Microsoft introduced a new category in Cognitive Services called Decision that reflects the evolution of the product portfolio. We are also introducing new services and capabilities under the Vision, Speech and Language categories. The company said that it is also working to make more Cognitive Services available on the edge and on-premises with containers. Azure Data Factory enhancements Feature enhancements to Azure Data Factory allow developers to be more productive by visually transforming their data at big-data scale without any code. The launch of Mapping Data Flows makes Azure Data Factory a full ETL/ELT (extract/transform/load and extract/load/transform) service. Additionally, Wrangling Data Flows, offers a code-free way to visually discover and prepare data without writing code.
As Microsoft concludes its annual conference for developers, Microsoft Build 2019, the company managed to capture the imagination of developers across the world with its slew of announcements While the biggest surprise came in with the move to bring custom-built Linux kernel within Windows 10, it made a host of other big announcements in the […]
Microsoft Build 2019, its annual conference for developers is currently being in the US where the company has made a slew of announcements
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Akshaya Asokan works as a Technology Journalist at Analytics India Magazine. She has previously worked with IDG Media and The New Indian Express. When not writing, she can be seen either reading or staring at a flower.