How Machine Learning Ate Microsoft

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday February 19, 2015 @10:32PM from the doing-it-smarter dept.

snydeq writes Yesterday's announcement of Azure Machine Learning offers the latest sign of Microsoft's deep machine learning expertise — now available to developers everywhere, InfoWorld reports. "Machine learning has infiltrated Microsoft products from Bing to Office to Windows 8 to Xbox games. Its flashiest vehicle may be the futuristic Skype Translator, which handles two-way voice conversations in different languages. Now, with machine learning available on the Azure cloud, developers can build learning capabilities into their own applications: recommendations, sentiment analysis, fraud detection, fault prediction, and more. The idea of the new Azure offering is to democratize machine learning, so you no longer need to hire someone with a doctorate to use a machine learning algorithm."

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Re:Call me paraniod, but ... by jbolden · 2015-02-20 01:39 · Score: 4, Informative

For example: where can I get a copy of SkyDrive/OneDrive/whatever which I can run on my own systems ?

SharePoint will do that.
For that matter you can run the entire Azure suite in your private location: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us...