Microsoft Corp.’s earnings report and forecast cheered investors, providing further evidence the company can increase cloud sales and squeeze more profit from the area while cutting into Amazon.com Inc.’s massive industry lead.
For its part, the firm will take steps to make biometric systems less prone to bias and develop new public principles to govern the technology, says Brad Smith.
The company is advancing toward the certification needed to host the government’s most sensitive, classified information as it expands cloud-computing storage centers through its Azure Government Secret unit.
Machine data analysis, which includes business analytics, forecasting models, machine learning, statistics recognition and predictions, is attracting half of all deals, a new study reveals.
The firm currently has $19.14M in active contracts with the agency. Cloud-computing and software rivals, including Amazon.com Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and IBM, regularly compete for similar government work.
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My advice to everyone: Get a platform while you still can. If you don’t control an app, run an e-commerce store, have your own media business or at least manage a Twitch stream, you’re in trouble.
The firm is fighting a lawsuit by women engineers and information technology specialists who claim they were treated for years like second-class citizens.
As the company moves away from complete dependence on the Windows operating system to more in-house development on Linux, it needs new ways to connect with the broader software pro community.
