Industrial internet of things applications, like connected farms, could drive interest in Microsoft’s new Project Kinect for Azure. (Microsoft Photo) Microsoft is bringing Kinect back this week at its ...

Microsoft has announced a program that will grant Azure credits to open source projects for a year. Any project in any technology with an Open Source Initiative (OSI) approved license may apply, ...

Kinect's legacy lives on. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Kinect, as it existed for Xbox, may be dead, but its legacy continues ...

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After getting discontinued in the Fall of 2017, the Microsoft Kinect is back, but not for gaming. Project Kinect for Azure is a version of the pioneering camera/sensor array, designed for businesses.

Microsoft has taken the time to reiterate that it is aligned with open source technological values. To back up its words, it's offering Azure credits to developers working on open source projects.

Microsoft promises fast and flexible FPGA chips will unlock new AI abilities for customers using its Azure cloud-computing service. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

A Google search for a now-deleted Github page provides just enough information on a quiet collaboration between Harvard and Microsoft. Microsoft Azure appears to have scored a high-profile customer: ...

Microsoft has a long history of turning its internal tools into products, especially as part of Azure. That’s not surprising: The company is building and running the same cloud-native applications as ...

Microsoft has been a member of the Open Compute Project since 2014, donating many of the specifications for its Azure data centers to the project. It’s where Microsoft develops its Olympus servers and ...

Microsoft, under CEO Satya Nadella, has said and done a lot to shed its image as a pariah of Linux and open-source software communities. With a Linux kernel for Windows 10, GitHub, a new Android ...