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Adaptability by design: Unifying cloud and edge infrastructure trends
02 May 2025
Adaptability isn’t an option. It’s the strategy. Every day, we engage with organizations navigating growing business complexity across industries, geographies, and regulatory environments. From global
Azure AI Foundry: Your GPS for the changing AI landscape
29 Apr 2025
Azure AI Foundry is like GPS for your AI ambitions: it simplifies navigating the insane pace of innovation in the AI landscape so you see where you are today, evaluate what’s new, and plan, execute, a
Accelerate AI innovation and business transformation: Scaling AI transformation with strategic cloud partnership
29 Apr 2025
Modern innovation is how companies differentiate, and AI is the prime example In a world where technology evolves at breakneck speed, it’s astonishing to realize that many businesses still rely on sys
Forrester Total Economic Impact study: A 304% ROI within 3 years using Azure Arc
29 Apr 2025
Forrester Consulting interviewed decision-makers from organizations using Azure Arc with cloud-based management services to manage their IT assets. The post Forrester Total Economic Impact study: A 30
Tired of all the restarts? Get hotpatching for Windows Server
28 Apr 2025
Hotpatching for Windows Server 2025, made available in preview in 2024, will become generally available as a subscription service on July 1st, 2025. One of the key updates in the latest rele
Unveiling GPT-image-1: Rising to new heights with image generation in Azure AI Foundry
28 Apr 2025
We are thrilled to announce the launch of GPT-image-1, the latest and most advanced image generation model, now available on Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service. The post Unveiling GPT-image-1: Rising to
5 insights from the front lines of the platform shift
28 Apr 2025
If you’d like to learn more about how leaders at the forefront of data, AI, and cloud technologies are leading through the platform shift, please listen, follow, and subscribe to Leading the Shift. Th
Upskill your team on Azure Databricks with an on-demand webinar and Microsoft Learn
21 Apr 2025
In a data-driven world, you need an efficient way to harness your data for actionable insights and gain a competitive edge. Azure Databricks is a powerful, unified analytics and AI platform that strea
o3 and o4-mini: Unlock enterprise agent workflows with next-level reasoning AI with Azure AI Foundry and GitHub
17 Apr 2025
We are thrilled to announce the availability of the latest iterations in the o* reasoning series: o3 and o4-mini models on the Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service. The post o3 and o4-mini: Unlock enterpri
Azure Files: More performance, more control, more value for your file data
16 Apr 2025
We're excited to share a wave of exciting new enhancements to Azure Files and Azure File Sync, designed to simplify how you manage and access your file data. The post Azure Files: More performance, mo
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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.
