At its annual Build conference, Microsoft showcased what's coming for the tech giant in the realm of artificial intelligence, cloud, and more, including an old Microsoft experiment finding a new home with Azure.
In a first of its kind partnership, Amazon and Microsoft have announced that both company's digital assistants will be able to speak to each other. Later this year, Alexa will be able to talk to Cortana, and Cortana will be able to talk to Alexa.
Microsoft is highlighting the work of its research labs with a free ebook that invited some of today's most popular science fiction authors to write stories inspired by visits to Microsoft's labs.
Microsoft has been developing its answer to Apple's Siri for a long time, but now its virtual assistant has become a hot topic at its Worldwide Partner Conference