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FYAI: How to leverage AI to reimagine cross-functional collaboration with Yina Arenas
26 Jun 2025
This edition of FYAI features Yina Arenas, Vice President of Product, Azure AI Foundry, who's leading the work to empower developers to shape the future with AI. The post FYAI: How to leverage AI to r
Celebrating innovation, scale, and real-world impact with Serverless Compute on Azure
26 Jun 2025
We are thrilled to announce that Microsoft has been recognized as a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Serverless Development Platforms, Q2 2025. The post Celebrating innovation, scale, and real-world imp
IDC Business Value Study: A 306% ROI within 3 years using Ubuntu Linux on Azure
21 Jun 2025
Study participants shared that Azure provides a more efficient and effective platform for their Ubuntu workloads, maximizing their value in core business functions and supporting new technology adopti
Maximize your ROI for Azure OpenAI
20 Jun 2025
This blog breaks down the available pricing and deployment options, and tools that support scalable, cost-conscious AI deployments. The post Maximize your ROI for Azure OpenAI appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.
Microsoft Planetary Computer Pro: Unlocking AI-powered geospatial insights for enterprises across industries
19 Jun 2025
We are excited to introduce the Public Preview of Microsoft Planetary Computer Pro, a comprehensive platform that makes it dramatically easier for organizations to harness geospatial data for real-wor
Scale AI transformation with Azure Essentials: AI Center of Excellence guidance
19 Jun 2025
An AI Center of Excellence helps align business strategy, people, and technology decisions around AI. The post Scale AI transformation with Azure Essentials: AI Center of Excellence guidance appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.
Microsoft recognized for second consecutive year as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms
13 Jun 2025
We’re proud to share that Microsoft has once again been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Science and Machine Learning (DSML) Platforms. The post Microsoft recognized for se
Enhance AI security with Azure Prompt Shields and Azure AI Content Safety
06 Jun 2025
Defend your AI systems with Prompt Shields—a unified API that analyzes inputs to your LLM-based solution to guard against direct and indirect threats. The post Enhance AI security with Azure Prompt Sh
Microsoft named a Leader in 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Integration Platform as a Service
05 Jun 2025
We’re committed to helping organizations simplify connectivity, modernize legacy systems, and unlock the full potential of AI-powered automation. The post Microsoft named a Leader in 2025 Gartner® Mag
All the Azure news you don’t want to miss from Microsoft Build 2025
04 Jun 2025
We’ve pulled together the top 25 announcements at Microsoft Build 2025 across the Azure business—spanning Azure AI Foundry, Azure infrastructure, Azure app platform, Azure databases and Microsoft Fabr
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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.
