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"Microsoft Monday" is a weekly column devoted to all things Microsoft. This week, "Microsoft Monday" features news about the announcements made at the Ignite event, a new business center in China, Skype on Alexa, new Dynamics business applications and more!

Microsoft Ignite ads

Today, Microsoft has launched its four-day Ignite event and several products have been announced. Here is a breakdown of what Microsoft announced during the event:

Microsoft Search

Microsoft is deploying universal search functionality on Bing and Office.com. And later, the search feature will be supported in Edge, Windows and Office. The search function can index internal documents to make it easier to find files.

Whether you're looking for Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, teams, etc., the search will be highlighted in the apps you use every day. Custom results will appear in the search box so you can see the documents you are using. were working recently.

When you perform a search on Bing, the results of the organization and the Web results are returned. The public preview will begin to be released today.

The Office.com search feature makes it easy to update the documents you recently worked on, as well as documents recommended by your colleagues. Microsoft Search in Office.com has been released today.

The search in the mobile application SharePoint becomes the default experience when you open the application. The search lists common questions, personalized results, and frequent searches. In addition, the mobile application Outlook will highlight searches by displaying content and people.

In the first half of 2019, the new Scale Search Suite in the ribbon will be added to the Office, Mobile and Office Web versions. And Microsoft Search will be accessible directly from the Windows 10 taskbar.

"Microsoft Graph provides an overview of the people, sites, devices, and documents you work with, and provides the foundation for consistent learning across your organization, wherever you work, and with your colleagues. Microsoft Graph ranks search results according to your needs. You can see all the results that fit your query, but the personalized search prioritizes the results most likely to reach your goal, "said Jeff Teper, vice president of OneDrive, SharePoint and Office. "Overloading Microsoft Graph with Bing's advanced AI technology and knowledge of the world, we can expand our vision of insightful technology to make it easy to ask questions in natural language and get real answers, without manual intervention.

Office 2019 for Windows and Mac

Microsoft Office 2019 is now generally intended for Windows and Mac. Office 2019 is the successor to Office 2016, which is considered the next local version of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Project, Visio, Access, and Publisher. An overview of the applications was distributed to business customers in April 2018.

"The new Office 2019 enhancements are a subset of a long list of features added to Office 365 ProPlus over the past three years," said Jared Spataro, vice president of Office and Windows Marketing at Microsoft. . "Office 2019 is a single release and will not receive future feature updates. However, we will continue to add new features every month to Office 365 ProPlus, including innovations in collaboration, artificial intelligence (AI), security, and more.

Some of the new features added to Office 2019 include Designer and Zoom for PowerPoint, data analysis features for PowerPivot, and learning tools such as Reading Aloud and Spacing Text for Word and Outlook. Office 2019 only works on Windows 10, so users interested in Windows 7 and 8.1 will not be up to it.

Several new features of Office 365

At Ignite, Microsoft has also announced several new Office 365 features. This includes new ideas and new features of artificial intelligence in Excel.

The Ideas feature saves time in day-to-day tasks, such as selecting a design and searching images for PowerPoint. And Ideas can suggest graphics to highlight your Excel data. Ideas are now generally available in Excel and will soon be available in preview mode in PowerPoint Online.

A feature that references stocks and geographies in spreadsheets is now generally available in Excel. And image recognition is also added to Excel so that you can convert a picture from a data table to a spreadsheet file, a feature called "Image Data."

LinkedIn users will also be able to co-create Office 365 documents with their contacts. It is unknown when this feature will be fully deployed.

Microsoft Teams Update

At the Ignite event, Microsoft announced that its Slack-like Teams service is now used by 329,000 organizations according to VentureBeat. That number went from 200,000 in March to more than double the 125,000 last year.

Teams are now considered to be Microsoft's fastest growing professional application. One of the reasons why teams grew up so quickly is that a free version was released two months ago.

New features recently launched by teams include a background blur, which creates a bokeh effect in video meetings, meeting recordings, and transcripts that can be searched for.

Microsoft also introduces the ability for Office 365 users to broadcast live and on-demand events to teams, Yammer, and Microsoft Stream later this year.

Teams are also tailored to industry-specific workflows. These versions are known as Home and Shifts. Home is a mobile experience that allows front-line workers to review shifts / breaks, view important notes of the day or change jobs, and find out who is working on the shift. And the Shifts version allows front-line managers to schedule schedules in a self-service experience for employees. Managers can also create, update and distribute schedules for teams and release open and unfilled shifts so that employees can cover them.

In addition, two new secure messaging features are relevant in the healthcare industry, including image annotation and priority notifications. These features will allow clinicians to communicate about patients without risk to privacy when healthcare professionals use chat apps.

Azure Data Box Edge

Microsoft has announced the new Azure Data Box Edge, which is an on-premises appliance with AI-compliant compute capabilities. This allows companies to set up artificial intelligence calculations without resorting to specialized processors.

"Data Box Edge serves as a storage gateway, linking your site to Azure storage, making it easy to move data in Azure storage and work with a local network share." Data Box Edge provides local cache and optimizes the network "Data Box Edge also provides an IT platform via IoT Edge, which allows you to deploy Azure services, custom code, and applications to the edge. This means that you can analyze, filter, or transform your data directly as part of your workflow, and to speed up the machine learning workloads, Data Box Edge will have the FPGA option optimized by the Microsoft Brainwave project.

In addition, Microsoft also publishes the Getaway Data Box as a stand-alone virtual appliance. Data Box Edge and Data Box Gateway are both available in Preview now.

Launch of the Surface Hub 2 whiteboard in the second quarter of 2019

In the second quarter of 2019, Microsoft will release Surface Hub 2. The Surface Hub 2 is a large touch-screen device that would be suitable for conference rooms. In the past, Microsoft has just given the year 2019 as the launch date.

According to TechCrunch, Microsoft will launch Surface Hub 2S first. The 2S is thinner and weighs less than the original Hub Surface, but the display is smaller. For example, the 2S will have a 50.5-inch screen compared to the 55-inch and 84-inch options of the previous generation Surface Hub. And the 2S will also have a 4K camera, better microphones and support for Microsoft teams.

"By 2020, we will be releasing updates from the Surface Hub family to allow customers to update Surface Hub 2X. This includes the ability to tile, rotate, and enable the multi-user connection, "Microsoft said in an ad. "This simple update is made possible by our design of removable processor cartridges, in a hardware chassis easily accessible at the back of Surface Hub 2. This processor cartridge can be removed, upgraded and serviced over time . The cartridge is what will allow customers to switch in 2020 to Microsoft's Surface Hub 2X.

40 million US dollars for the humanitarian action program

Microsoft said it would invest $ 40 million to apply artificial intelligence to humanitarian problems. This is Microsoft's third largest philanthropic program around AI after the $ 50 million AI for Earth program and the $ 25 million AI for Accessibility program.

As part of this program, Microsoft will partner with non-governmental organizations and humanitarian groups to use AI to respond to disasters, respond to the needs of children, assist refugees and displaced persons, and enforce human rights.

"The AI ​​for Humanitarian Action Program is the third program of the Microsoft Initiative for Love, a $ 115 million commitment launched last summer to work on improving accessibility and environmental sustainability" said Al Olson.

Cortana Skills Kit for the company

Microsoft has announced a new development platform Cortana Skills Kit for End-to-End Enterprise. Javier Soltero, Microsoft's vice president for the company, said it was "important that companies could allow their employees to use Cortana to perform specific tasks to their business."

The Cortana for Enterprise Skills Kit is based on the Azure Bot service and supports the linguistic understanding of Azure Cognitive Services.

Vivek Goswami, Microsoft Program Manager, believes that some of the skills that could be created include human resource skills that enable employees to ask the smart personal assistant to plan office clean ups. Microsoft IT developers have used the Cortana for Enterprise Skills Kit to create support service skills that allow Cortana to deposit tickets on behalf of employees with technical problems.

OneDrive files on demand for MacOS and iPhone updates

The OneDrive Files On-Demand feature is now available in public preview for macOS. This feature allows you to access all your OneDrive files without having to download them all and use storage space on your computer.

After enabling OneDrive Files On-Demand, you will see all your files in Mac Finder and get information about each file. And while you're connected to the Internet, you can only use online files, just like any other file on your computer.

This feature requires macOS 10.14 Mojave – which was released today. And it also requires a formatted Apple File System (APFS) volume. For quick access to OneDrive on-demand files on Mac, you can sign up for Office.com.

And speaking of OneDrive, the iPhone version of the app has been updated today with several new features. For example, there is an "On This Day" feature that displays a picture you have taken in the past on the same day. And now, when you save photos from your film, it will be organized by year and by month to make it easier to find your photos.

Azure IoT Central and Azure Digital Twins

Janakiram, a contributor to Forbes MSV, published an earlier article on Microsoft's improvements to its IoT and Edge computing platforms.

Azure IoT Central, a software IoT platform as a service for businesses, is now available. MSV pointed out that the expertise of the cloud solution was not necessary for IoT scenarios with Azure IoT Central. And Azure IoT Central makes it easy to integrate devices and manage them in the cloud.

And as device twins become essential in the deployment of industrial IoT solutions, Microsoft has increased the technology in the form of a product called Azure Digital Twins. The Azure Digital Twins service creates a complete digital model of physical environments including people, places, and objects. Azure Digital Twins connects to Azure IoT Hub for device management. And IoT Hub APIs can be used to query and control digital twins. This service will be available in preview from October 15, 2018.

In addition, Microsoft also announced that Azure Sphere development kits are now widely available. And Azure Marketplace is now open to independent software vendors to submit their computer modules for certification and review.

Partnership with Adobe and SAP

According to Geekwire, Microsoft has launched a new partnership with Adobe and SAP to gather customer data on Azure. This partnership is known as the Open Data Initiative and connects data from Adobe Experience Cloud and Adobe Experience Platform, Microsoft Dynamics 365, SAP C / 4HANA and S / 4HANA.

Windows Virtual Office

Today, Microsoft unveiled Windows Virtual Desktop, which is a multi-user Windows and Office virtualized cloud configuration via Azure. Windows 7 Enterprise, Windows 10 Enterprise, and Windows Server 2012 R2 + can be run in Windows Virtual Desktop. And Windows Virtual Desktop will be available for Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows 10 Education clients via a public preview later this year. In addition, it is optimized for Office 365 ProPlus.

Skype should be added to Amazon Alexa Devices this year

Microsoft plans to bring Skype messaging service to Alexa-based devices later this year. Users will be able to make and accept Skype calls using their voice. For example, users can say "Alexa, call Michael on Skype" or "Alexa, answer".

"This is the next step in the collaboration between Microsoft and Amazon to provide customers with a rewarding voice experience, which began with joining Cortana and Alexa. Since then, we have added Alexa integration to Xbox and continue to work together to deliver the best of Skype and Alexa to enable intelligent communications for our users, "Microsoft said in a blog post.

LinkedIn's business figure is added to the "Business Cloud"

Microsoft adds LinkedIn to its business metrics and smart cloud section in its earnings reports. Prior to this change, Microsoft reported earnings from LinkedIn separately. Specifically, the commercial portion of LinkedIn will be added to the business metrics and LinkedIn's revenue growth will be reported in the "Productivity and Business Process" section; Smart Cloud.

New Microsoft Dynamics Business Apps

Last week at an event in San Francisco, Alysa Taylor, vice president of commercial applications and industry at Microsoft, announced the availability of new Dynamics 365 AI applications and early professional applications to mixed reality: Dynamics 365 Remote Assist and Dynamics 365 Layout.

"Two years ago, when we launched Dynamics 365, we began tearing down the traditional silos of CRM and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)," he said. Taylor. "We have decided to rethink business applications as modern, unified, intelligent and adaptable solutions, integrated with Office 365 and based on Microsoft Azure."

Dynamics 365 AI

The new Dynamics 365 AI will be available soon, which is a suite of AI applications that provides information by aggregating data and combining it with advanced intelligence that enables organizations to take action with full knowledge of the facts. This information is extensible through Microsoft Power BI, Azure, and the common data service.

Dynamics 365 AI for Sales helps salespeople prioritize the time it takes to focus on offers to focus on the most important offerings. And Dynamics 365 AI for Sales provides answers to sales team performance, sales pipeline analysis, and coaching information for sales teams.

Dynamics 365 AI for Customer Service provides automated customer service data and information to help employees take action and use virtual agents to reduce costs without having to write code or recruit internal experts .

And Dynamics 365 AI for Market Insights helps marketing and social media teams make better decisions based on market intelligence. Marketers will be able to build relationships with customers through actionable social information to respond to trends faster.

Microsoft also announced that it will offer its mixed reality platform with a set of business applications. Since Microsoft launched the HoloLens a few years ago, the mixed-reality headset has also seen commercial growth. In order to provide employees with the information they need based on the mixed reality platform, Microsoft introduced Dynamics 365 Remote Assist and Dynamics 365 Layout.

One of the largest companies using HoloLens combined with Dynamics 365 mixed reality applications is Chevron. Previously, Chevron had to bring a Houston inspector to a Singapore facility once a month to inspect the equipment.

From now on, Chevon conducts an inspection using Dynamics 365 Remote Assist and can identify issues and provide immediate approvals. And Chevron can benefit from remote collaboration and assistance to help the company operate safely in work environments, reduce the risks of moving and connect more easily to first-time workers. line to remote experts.

The Dynamics 365 and Power platform will generally be available on October 1st.

Microsoft Research Asia-Shanghai and the Microsoft-INESA AI Innovation Center

Microsoft partners with People's Government of Shanghai Xuhui District and INESA Group to create the Microsoft Research Asia-Shanghai Innovation Center and Microsoft-INESA AI in Shanghai Xuhui District to strengthen its artificial intelligence research capabilities .

Microsoft Research Asia-Shanghai and the Microsoft-INESA AI Innovation Center will promote the development of artificial intelligence technology in Shanghai. And Microsoft Research Asia-Shanghai plans to turn key results into Microsoft products.

"The digital transformation induced by advanced technologies such as the AI ​​is starting a new global industrial revolution and China has become the most innovative and dynamic market in the world," said the Executive Vice President. Artificial Intelligence and Microsoft Research. Harry Shum. "With the opportunities offered by digital transformation, Shanghai has taken advantage of its benefits and has developed a clear plan for the development of AI. The city has created an ideal development environment and policy that supports technological innovation and talent culture, as well as the implementation of many compelling AI projects. "

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"Microsoft Monday" is a weekly column devoted to all things Microsoft. This week, "Microsoft Monday" features news about the announcements made at the Ignite event, a new business center in China, Skype on Alexa, new Dynamics business applications and more!

Microsoft Ignite ads

Today, Microsoft has launched its four-day Ignite event and several products have been announced. Here is a breakdown of what Microsoft announced during the event:

Microsoft Search

Microsoft is deploying universal search functionality on Bing and Office.com. And later, the search feature will be supported in Edge, Windows and Office. The search function can index internal documents to make it easier to find files.

Whether you're looking for Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, teams, etc., the search will be highlighted in the apps you use every day. Custom results will appear in the search box so you can see the documents you are using. were working recently.

When you perform a search on Bing, the results of the organization and the Web results are returned. The public preview will begin to be released today.

The Office.com search feature makes it easy to update the documents you recently worked on, as well as documents recommended by your colleagues. Microsoft Search in Office.com has been released today.

The search in the mobile application SharePoint becomes the default experience when you open the application. The search lists common questions, personalized results, and frequent searches. In addition, the mobile application Outlook will highlight searches by displaying content and people.

In the first half of 2019, the new Scale Search Suite in the ribbon will be added to the Office, Mobile and Office Web versions. And Microsoft Search will be accessible directly from the Windows 10 taskbar.

"Microsoft Graph provides an overview of the people, sites, devices, and documents you work with, and provides the foundation for consistent learning across your organization, wherever you work, and with your colleagues. Microsoft Graph ranks search results according to your needs. You can see all the results that fit your query, but the personalized search prioritizes the results most likely to reach your goal, "said Jeff Teper, vice president of OneDrive, SharePoint and Office. "Overloading Microsoft Graph with Bing's advanced AI technology and knowledge of the world, we can expand our vision of insightful technology to make it easy to ask questions in natural language and get real answers, without manual intervention.

Office 2019 for Windows and Mac

Microsoft Office 2019 is now generally intended for Windows and Mac. Office 2019 is the successor to Office 2016, which is considered the next local version of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Project, Visio, Access, and Publisher. An overview of the applications was distributed to business customers in April 2018.

"The new Office 2019 enhancements are a subset of a long list of features added to Office 365 ProPlus over the past three years," said Jared Spataro, vice president of Office and Windows Marketing at Microsoft. . "Office 2019 is a single release and will not receive future feature updates. However, we will continue to add new features every month to Office 365 ProPlus, including innovations in collaboration, artificial intelligence (AI), security, and more.

Some of the new features added to Office 2019 include Designer and Zoom for PowerPoint, data analysis features for PowerPivot, and learning tools such as Reading Aloud and Spacing Text for Word and Outlook. Office 2019 only works on Windows 10, so users interested in Windows 7 and 8.1 will not be up to it.

Several new features of Office 365

At Ignite, Microsoft has also announced several new Office 365 features. This includes new ideas and new features of artificial intelligence in Excel.

The Ideas feature saves time in day-to-day tasks, such as selecting a design and searching images for PowerPoint. And Ideas can suggest graphics to highlight your Excel data. Ideas are now generally available in Excel and will soon be available in preview mode in PowerPoint Online.

A feature that references stocks and geographies in spreadsheets is now generally available in Excel. And image recognition is also added to Excel so that you can convert a picture from a data table to a spreadsheet file, a feature called "Image Data."

LinkedIn users will also be able to co-create Office 365 documents with their contacts. It is unknown when this feature will be fully deployed.

Microsoft Teams Update

At the Ignite event, Microsoft announced that its Slack-like Teams service is now used by 329,000 organizations according to VentureBeat. That number went from 200,000 in March to more than double the 125,000 last year.

Teams are now considered to be Microsoft's fastest growing professional application. One of the reasons why teams grew up so quickly is that a free version was released two months ago.

New features recently launched by teams include a background blur, which creates a bokeh effect in video meetings, meeting recordings, and transcripts that can be searched for.

Microsoft also introduces the ability for Office 365 users to broadcast live and on-demand events to teams, Yammer, and Microsoft Stream later this year.

Teams are also tailored to industry-specific workflows. These versions are known as Home and Shifts. Home is a mobile experience that allows front-line workers to review shifts / breaks, view important notes of the day or change jobs, and find out who is working on the shift. And the Shifts version allows front-line managers to schedule schedules in a self-service experience for employees. Managers can also create, update and distribute schedules for teams and release open and unfilled shifts so that employees can cover them.

In addition, two new secure messaging features are relevant in the healthcare industry, including image annotation and priority notifications. Ces fonctionnalités permettront aux cliniciens de communiquer sur les patients sans risque pour la vie privée lorsque les professionnels de la santé utilisent des applications de discussion.

Azure Data Box Edge

Microsoft a annoncé le nouvel Azure Data Box Edge, qui est une appliance sur site avec des capacités de calcul d’avant compatibles AI. Cela permet aux entreprises de mettre en place des calculs d&#39;intelligence artificielle sans recourir à des processeurs spécialisés.

"Data Box Edge sert de passerelle de stockage, créant un lien entre votre site et le stockage Azure. Cela facilite le déplacement des données dans le stockage Azure et le fait de travailler avec un partage réseau local. Data Box Edge fournit un cache local et optimise le réseau "Data Box Edge fournit également une plate-forme informatique via IoT Edge, qui vous permet de déployer des services Azure, du code personnalisé et des applications à la périphérie. Cela signifie que vous pouvez analyser , filtrer ou transformer vos données directement dans le cadre de votre flux de travail et, pour accélérer les charges de travail d’apprentissage automatique, Data Box Edge aura l’option FPGA optimisée par le projet Microsoft Brainwave.

De plus, Microsoft publie également le Data Box Getaway en tant qu&#39;appliance virtuelle autonome. Data Box Edge et Data Box Gateway sont tous deux disponibles dans Preview maintenant.

Lancement du tableau blanc Surface Hub 2 au deuxième trimestre 2019

Au deuxième trimestre de 2019, Microsoft publiera Surface Hub 2. Le Surface Hub 2 est un grand périphérique à écran tactile qui conviendrait aux salles de conférence. Par le passé, Microsoft a simplement donné l&#39;année 2019 comme date de lancement.

Selon TechCrunch, Microsoft lancera d&#39;abord Surface Hub 2S. Le 2S est plus fin et pèse moins que le Surface Hub d&#39;origine, mais l&#39;affichage est plus petit. Par exemple, le 2S aura un écran de 50,5 pouces par rapport aux options de 55 pouces et de 84 pouces de la génération précédente du Surface Hub. Et le 2S va également avoir une caméra 4K, de meilleurs microphones et un support pour les équipes Microsoft.

«À l&#39;horizon 2020, nous publierons des mises à jour de la famille Surface Hub pour permettre aux clients de mettre à jour Surface Hub 2X. Cela inclut la possibilité de créer des mosaïques, de faire pivoter et d’activer la connexion multi-utilisateurs », a déclaré Microsoft dans une annonce. «Cette simple mise à jour est possible grâce à notre conception de cartouches de processeur amovibles, dans un châssis matériel facilement accessible à l’arrière du Surface Hub 2. Cette cartouche de processeur peut être retirée, mise à niveau et entretenue au fil du temps. La cartouche est ce qui permettra aux clients de passer en 2020 au Surface Hub 2X de Microsoft.

40 millions de dollars américains pour le programme d&#39;action humanitaire

Microsoft a déclaré qu’il allait investir 40 millions de dollars pour appliquer l’intelligence artificielle aux problèmes humanitaires. Il s’agit du troisième programme philanthropique de Microsoft autour d’AI après le programme AI for Earth de 50 millions de dollars et le programme AI for Accessibility de 25 millions de dollars.

Dans le cadre de ce programme, Microsoft s&#39;associera à des organisations non gouvernementales et à des groupes humanitaires pour utiliser l’IA pour répondre aux catastrophes, répondre aux besoins des enfants, aider les réfugiés et les personnes déplacées et faire respecter les droits de l’homme.

«Le programme AI for Humanitarian Action est le troisième programme de l’initiative de Microsoft pour l’Amour, un engagement de 115 millions de dollars lancé l’été dernier pour travailler sur l’amélioration de l’accessibilité et de la durabilité environnementale», a déclaré Al Olson.

Kit de compétences Cortana pour l&#39;entreprise

Microsoft a annoncé une nouvelle plate-forme de développement Cortana Skills Kit pour Enterprise de bout en bout. Javier Soltero, vice-président de Microsoft pour l&#39;entreprise, a déclaré qu&#39;il était «important que les entreprises puissent permettre à leurs employés d&#39;utiliser Cortana pour effectuer des tâches spécifiques à leur entreprise».

Le kit de compétences Cortana for Enterprise est basé sur le service Azure Bot et s&#39;appuie sur la compréhension linguistique des services Azure Cognitive.

Vivek Goswami, responsable du programme Microsoft, estime que certaines des compétences qui pourraient être créées incluent des compétences en développement des ressources humaines permettant aux employés de demander à l’assistant personnel intelligent de planifier des nettoyages de bureau. Les développeurs informatiques de Microsoft ont utilisé le kit de compétences Cortana for Enterprise pour créer des compétences de service d&#39;assistance permettant à Cortana de déposer des tickets pour le compte d&#39;employés rencontrant des problèmes techniques.

Fichiers OneDrive à la demande pour les mises à jour MacOS et iPhone

La fonctionnalité OneDrive Files On-Demand est désormais disponible en aperçu public pour macOS. Cette fonctionnalité vous permet d&#39;accéder à tous vos fichiers OneDrive sans avoir à les télécharger tous et à utiliser de l&#39;espace de stockage sur votre ordinateur.

Après avoir activé OneDrive Files On-Demand, vous verrez tous vos fichiers dans Mac Finder et obtenez des informations sur chaque fichier. Et pendant que vous êtes connecté à Internet, vous pouvez utiliser des fichiers en ligne uniquement, comme tous les autres fichiers de votre ordinateur.

Cette fonctionnalité nécessite macOS 10.14 Mojave – qui a été publié aujourd&#39;hui. Et il nécessite également un volume formaté Apple File System (APFS). Pour accéder rapidement aux fichiers OneDrive à la demande sur Mac, vous pouvez vous inscrire sur Office.com.

Et en parlant de OneDrive, la version iPhone de l&#39;application a été mise à jour aujourd&#39;hui avec plusieurs nouvelles fonctionnalités. Par exemple, il existe une fonctionnalité «On This Day» qui affiche une photo que vous avez prise par le passé le même jour. Et maintenant, lorsque vous sauvegardez des photos à partir de votre pellicule, il sera organisé par année et par mois afin de faciliter la recherche de vos photos.

Twins numériques Azure IoT Central et Azure

Forbes contributor Janakiram MSV published an article earlier today about the enhancements Microsoft made for its IoT and edge computing platforms.

Azure IoT Central, a software-as-a-service IoT platform for enterprises, is now generally available. MSV pointed out that cloud solution expertise is not needed for IoT scenarios with Azure IoT Central. And Azure IoT Central makes it easier for onboarding devices and managing them in the cloud.

And as device twins are becoming essential in the deployment of industrial IoT solutions, Microsoft augmented the technology in the form of a product called Azure Digital Twins. The Azure Digital Twins service creates a comprehensive digital model of physical environments that includes people, places and things. Azure Digital Twins connects to Azure IoT Hub for device management. And IoT Hub APIs can be used to query and and controlling the digital twins. This service will be available in preview from October 15, 2018.

Plus Microsoft also announced that Azure Sphere development kits are now broadly available. And Azure Marketplace is now open for independent software vendors to submit their edge computing modules for certification and review.

Partnership With Adobe And SAP

Microsoft launched a new industry partnership with Adobe and SAP in order to bring together customer data on Azure, according to Geekwire. This partnership is known as the Open Data Initiative and it links data from Adobe Experience Cloud and Adobe Experience Platform, Microsoft Dynamics 365, SAP C/4HANA and S/4HANA.

Windows Virtual Desktop

Today Microsoft unveiled Windows Virtual Desktop, which is a multi-user Windows and Office set up that is virtualized in the cloud via Azure. Windows 7 Enterprise, Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows Server 2012 R2+ can be run in Windows Virtual Desktop. And Windows Virtual Desktop will be available to Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows 10 Education customers via public preview later this year. Plus it is optimized for Office 365 ProPlus.

Skype Is Expected To Be Added To Amazon Alexa Devices This Year

Microsoft plans to bring the Skype messaging service to Alexa-based devices later this year. Users will be able to make and accept calls from Skype by using their voice. For example, users can say “Alexa, call Michael on Skype” or “Alexa, answer.”

“This is the next step in the collaboration between Microsoft and Amazon to deliver delightful customer experiences through voice, which began with joining Cortana and Alexa. Since then, we’ve added Alexa integration on Xbox and are continuing to work together to bring the best of Skype and Alexa together to enable intelligent communications for our users,” said Microsoft in a blog post.

LinkedIn’s Revenue Is Being Added To The “Commercial Cloud”

Microsoft is adding LinkedIn to its commercial metrics and intelligent cloud section of its earnings reports. Prior to this change, Microsoft was reporting LinkedIn’s revenues separately. Specifically, the commercial portion of LinkedIn will be added to the commercial metrics and LinkedIn’s revenue growth will be reported in the "Productivity & Business Process; Intelligent Cloud” section.

New Microsoft Dynamics Business Applications

Last week at an event in San Francisco, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Business Applications & Industry Alysa Taylor announced the upcoming availability of new Dynamics 365 AI applications and the company&#39;s first mixed reality business applications: Dynamics 365 Remote Assist and Dynamics 365 Layout.

"Two years ago, when we introduced Dynamics 365 we started a journey to tear down the traditional silos of customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP)," said Taylor. "We set out to reimagine business applications as modern, unified, intelligent and adaptable solutions that are integrated with Office 365 and natively built on Microsoft Azure."

Dynamics 365 AI

The new Dynamics 365 AI will be available soon, which is a suite of AI applications that provides insights by aggregating data and combining it with advanced intelligence enabling organizations to take informed actions. These insights are extensible through Microsoft Power BI, Azure and the Common Data Service.

Dynamics 365 AI for Sales helps salespeople prioritize time to focus on deals so that they can focus on the deals that matter the most. And Dynamics 365 AI for Sales provides answers to sales team performance, analysis of the sales pipeline and insights around the coaching of sales teams.

Dynamics 365 AI for Customer Service offers customer service data and surface automated insights in order to help employees take action and utilize virtual agents to lower support costs without the need to write code or hire in-house AI experts.

And Dynamics 365 AI for Market Insights helps marketing and social media teams make better decisions based on market insights. Marketers will be able to make customer relationships with actionable social insights in order to respond faster to trends.

Microsoft also announced that it is bringing its mixed reality platform together with a set of business applications. Ever since Microsoft released the HoloLens a couple of years ago, the mixed reality headset device also saw momentum in the commercial space. In order to provide employees with the insights that they need based on the mixed reality platform, Microsoft introduced Dynamics 365 Remote Assist and Dynamics 365 Layout.

One of the biggest companies that is using HoloLens combined with Dynamics 365 mixed reality applications is Chevron. Previously, Chevron had to fly in an inspector from Houston to a facility in Singapore once per month to inspect the equipment.

Now Chevon has in-time inspection using Dynamics 365 Remote Assist and can identify issues and provide approvals immediately. And Chevron is able to benefit from remote collaboration and assistance to help the company operate safely in work environments, cut down on travel risks and connect firstline workers with remote experts easier.

The Dynamics 365 and the Power platform will be generally available on October 1st.

Microsoft Research Asia-Shanghai And The Microsoft-INESA AI Innovation Center

Microsoft has partnered with Shanghai Xuhui District People’s Government and INESA Group to establish the Microsoft Research Asia-Shanghai and the Microsoft-INESA AI Innovation Center at the Shanghai Xuhui District in order to strengthen its artificial intelligence research capabilities.

Microsoft Research Asia-Shanghai and Microsoft-INESA AI Innovation Center will promote artificial intelligence technology development in Shanghai. And Microsoft Research Asia-Shanghai plans to transform leading results into Microsoft products.

“Digital transformation led by cutting-edge technologies such as AI is starting a new industrial revolution globally, and China has become the most innovative and dynamic market in the world today,” said Microsoft’s Executive Vice President of the Artificial Intelligence and Research Group Dr. Harry Shum. “With the opportunities brought about by digital transformation, Shanghai has leveraged its advantages and developed a clear plan for AI advancement. The city has created an ideal developmental environment and policy that support technology innovation and talent cultivation as well as the enablement of many compelling AI projects.”