AI Everywhere
Microsoft aims high with AI — these are its current real-world impacts
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Microsoft is frequently in the headlines regarding its AI ambitions, but is there any real-world AI impact so far?
Jason Ward
Jason L Ward is a columnist at Windows Central. He provides unique big picture analysis of the complex world of Microsoft. Jason takes the small clues and gives you an insightful big picture perspective through storytelling that you won't find anywhere else. Seriously, this dude thinks outside the box. Follow him on Twitter at @JLTechWord. He's doing the "write" thing!
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Behold the fold
Is this the beginning of the end of slate-shaped smartphones?
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Smartphone innovation has stalled and tech companies are exploring folding device options. But folding must expand mobile computing capabilities, not just fold for folding sake.
Love him or hate him he did good
President Trump may have saved Microsoft's mobile future (seriously)
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U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order blocking Broadcom's takeover of Qualcomm just may have saved Microsoft's mobile future and cellular innovation. Here's how.
For the next generation
Always Connected PCs and eSIM are for your kids – not you
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Critics challenge Always Connected PCs practicality, eSIM and buying data as needed from Microsoft Store. But this computing evolution is ultimately about kids, not you.
I once was blind but now I see
How Microsoft's AI platform is giving people with blindness super powers
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Science fiction tells stories of how technology enhances people with disabilities, enabling them to do as much or more than others. Microsoft's AI platform's being used in real life to close the gap between the sighted and people with blindness.
Welcome to the cellular roadmap
Why Microsoft's mobile future may depend on eSIM
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Microsoft and Qualcomm's Always-Connected PC strategy has everyone talking about eSIM. But what is it? And why does it matter to Microsoft and you? And how will it change the game?
Making MR dreams a reality in 2018
Microsoft outlines 2018 mixed reality plans toward immersive future
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HoloLens creator Alex Kipman's outlook for 2018 suggests Microsoft's making his dream of a world where the digital and physical co-exist in three-dimensional space a reality.
Looking back whiile moving forward
Microsoft connects black history with the company's future
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This year Microsoft ran its first installment of Connecting Black History to a Microsoft Future, an initiative that honors its African American employees and their contributions.
Redfining the 2-in-1
Tablet or laptop — how does Microsoft want you to think of the Surface Pro?
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How did Microsoft evolve the Surface and its marketing from the tablet that can replace your laptop to the most versatile laptop?
Will it become a global mandate?
Microsoft, the ID2020 Alliance, universal digital identification and you
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Last year Microsoft joined ID2020, a global Alliance whose goal is to create universal digital identities for everyone. What are the social, economic and ethical implications of such an initiative?
Cortana Q&A
Deep-dive Q&A with Cortana Intelligence Institute cofounder Ryen White
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There have been many questions about the future of Cortana. Cortana Intelligence Institute cofounder Ryen White has some answers in this exclusive Q&A.
Back to school
Microsoft is taking Cortana to school
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Microsoft's Cortana Intelligence Institute will teach Cortana proactively to do more for users. This strategy differs from rivals which primarily provide information or perform tasks on command.
Beyond the Surface
The NFL is making Microsoft Surface a winner on and off the sidelines
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The NFL and Microsoft forged a five-year partnership to promote Surface on the sidelines. But Surface is now being pushed into communities, schools, healthcare and more.
It's black history month
Microsoft, the tech industry and black equality - a candid discussion
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It's been less than 100 years since the American Civil Rights movement. The impact of centuries of inequality is still being felt, even in the poor representation of blacks in Microsoft and tech.
For you, me, and everybody
Andromeda, folding PCs, and Microsoft's vision for the future of computing
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In partnership with Qualcomm, Microsoft's Project Andromeda is ultimately meant to inspire a new category of connected pocketable PCs for everyone.
A wholistic approach?
Hey Microsoft: Consumers are professionals, and vice versa ... get it?
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Microsoft says its committed to the consumer/professional and has the capacity to fulfill that commitment. So what went wrong?
Everyone's a part
Microsoft promotes city-wide inclusion as 2018 Special Olympics sponsor
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Microsoft's inclusion efforts have spanned hiring practices and inclusive product design. As the presenting sponsor for the 2018 Special Olympics it hopes to transform Seattle to a city of inclusion.
Cortana everywhere
Cortana is headed to everyone, everywhere — if Microsoft gets its way
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Cortana's still alive and well, and Microsoft plans to bring 'her' and AI to everyone.
Don't forget about bots
Cortana's future is uncertain, but what about Microsoft's bot's strategy?
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With Cortana's troubled future and Progressive Web Apps on the horizon, does Microsoft's bots strategy still have a future?
Power shift
How cellular PCs will shift carriers in Microsoft's favor
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As cellular PCs bring the most prolific desktop OS to the cellular roadmap and gives users more flexibility with carrier choice, Microsoft will gain more power with carriers. Microsoft's telephony-enabled pocket PC will benefit from this shift.