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Transforming scientific discovery with Microsoft Azure and NVIDIA
01 Sep 2025
Scientific innovation speeds up with Azure’s cloud and NVIDIA’s GPUs—see how researchers are transforming discovery. The post Transforming scientific discovery with Microsoft Azure and NVIDIA appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.
Protecting Azure Infrastructure from silicon to systems
01 Sep 2025
At Microsoft, secure design begins at the foundation of our computing stack—the silicon level—and extends through every layer of the cloud. The post Protecting Azure Infrastructure from silicon to systems appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.
Microsoft’s open source journey: From 20,000 lines of Linux code to AI at global scale
25 Aug 2025
From Linux kernel code to AI at scale, discover Microsoft’s open source evolution and impact. The post Microsoft’s open source journey: From 20,000 lines of Linux code to AI at global scale appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.
Microsoft is a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms
25 Aug 2025
We’re proud to announce that Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms for a second year in a row, and the furthest to the right in
Agent Factory: Building your first AI agent with the tools to deliver real-world outcomes
22 Aug 2025
Agents are only as capable as the tools you give them—and only as trustworthy as the governance behind those tools. The post Agent Factory: Building your first AI agent with the tools to deliver real-
Building the Frontier Firm with Microsoft Azure: The business case for cloud and AI modernization
22 Aug 2025
Frontier Firms are moving beyond experimentation and into scaled transformation—powered by human-agent teams—by having agents as members of their team, reinventing processes, providing employees with
Agent Factory: The new era of agentic AI—common use cases and design patterns
22 Aug 2025
Instead of simply delivering information, agents reason, act, and collaborate—bridging the gap between knowledge and outcomes. Read more about agentic AI in Azure AI Foundry. The post Agent Factory: T
Microsoft is a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management
13 Aug 2025
We’re proud to announce that Microsoft has once again been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Container Management, for the third year in a row. The post Microsoft is a Lead
GPT-5 in Azure AI Foundry: The future of AI apps and agents starts here
08 Aug 2025
Today, we’re announcing general availability of OpenAI’s new flagship, GPT-5, in Azure AI Foundry. This is more than a new model release; it is the most powerful large language model (LLM) ever releas
Introducing Azure Storage Discovery: Transform data management with storage insights
07 Aug 2025
We are excited to announce the public preview of Azure Storage Discovery, a fully managed service that provides you enterprise-wide visibility into your Azure Blob Storage data estate. The post Introd
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Typewriters, the office machines that preceded computers
By Kiron Kasbekar | 10 Apr 2025
You see office tables today equipped with desktop computers or laptops. But think of the 1970s, and what would you have been seeing?
Wishful thinking about cars
By Kiron Kasbekar | 05 Apr 2025
Donald Trump may be many things, but a good economist he is not. Accustomed to dictating terms to people he has worked with,
The history of safety glass
By Kiron Kasbekar | 26 Mar 2025
You probably already knew that the world’s VIPs move around in cars with bullet-proof glass windscreen and windows. But did you know that ‘bulletproof glass’ is not really bulletproof?
German silver: used in cutlery, music, electricals - but it’s not silver
By Kiron Kasbekar | 20 Mar 2025
This material, which was first developed in China, not Germany, and is an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc, has lost its sheen in home uses, but finds favor in electrical engineering.
Pioneers – the Wrights and Glenn Curtiss launched the aircraft industry
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
First Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their plane, the ‘Wright Flyer’, from near a small town called Kitty Hawk. Then Glenn Curtiss built planes with a very different system of controls, which has lasted until now.
What do aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles?
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
From chains and sprockets to direct drives—If someone asked you what aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles, how would you respond?
Radar’s ancestors: From sound mirrors to modern detection technology
By Kiron Kasbekar | 11 Mar 2025
Radar has become a well-settled technology today, especially in the field of navigation.
Nokia Bell Labs: innovations in communication, computing, technology
By Omar Almeida | 08 Mar 2025
Bell Laboratories, or Bell labs, which has now become Nokia Bell Labs, is one of the most renowned research and development organizations in the history of science and technology.
Company story – Quaker Oats
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
