Microsoft Inspire: Nadella makes big announcements around AI and MR

Microsoft is now a $1 trillion company, thanks to its visionary CEO Satya Nadella who is charting a new course for the company and upping its cloud business. However, the man himself is not too excited about this milestone and has even gone on record to say that “I would be disgusted if somebody ever celebrated our market cap.”

Microsoft under Satya Nadella is now keeping its promise to innovate and create good opportunities for developers and partners. On the third day of Microsoft Inspire 2019, the company’s partner-focused conference, Satya Nadella highlighted some additional opportunities for developers. Nadella highlighted few software driven investments and opportunities in artificial intelligence at the conference.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Mixed Reality (MR)
Microsoft has revealed that it will continue to work in the fields of AI and MR. Nadella believes that democratising AI is the primary goal for the company. Making AI-based modules as part of Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a priority for the company and Microsoft is seeking help from its partners. The AI-modules will open opportunities for partners to infuse AI into customer business processes.
The demo is based on Microsoft's HoloLens 2 and Azure Cognitive services. Nadella highlighted that the future holds great opportunities for commercial MR.

Microsoft Azure

The explosion of data has led to people using digital technologies. Over 90% of data used today was created in the last two years. Microsoft has 54 data center regions and the company has announced additional regions in Middle East and Africa. Nadella said, "We're also building everything that we're doing across Azure with openness. Windows and Linux are first class. Java and .NET are first class. SQL Server, Postgres are first class. Red Hat, VMware, Oracle--all of these applications and infrastructure can be first class on Azure."

Power Platform

Microsoft is taking cloud to the edge. The company is using consistency in operating models to ensure management security. Microsoft's Power Platform that builds on Azure Services has a common data model and connectivity back to Dynamics 365. Microsoft CEO said, "In fact, there can be workflow between professional developers working on Azure who can then create a microservice and expose it to a PowerApp developer. That's the type of developer activity that we see. And, we have a new addition to the PowerApps family--it's the AI Builder. It takes all those magical AI cognitive services capabilities, and brings it to any application that you may want to build."

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