Microsoft on Tuesday announced a slew of cloud-powered intelligent services in Office 365 apps that aim to assist research and writing efforts. Researcher lets users access the Bing Knowledge Graph to find and incorporate sources and content for research papers without leaving Word. Editor uses machine learning and national language processing, combined with input from Microsoft’s linguists, to make proofing and editing suggestions designed to help users improve their writing.
With Windows 10 and Bing, Microsoft is trying to out Google Google. They're trying to muscle in on Google's dominance of the search engine advertising delivery market. But after 25 years of playing the corporate bully boy, lack of any kind of creative originality, and technical incompetence, is there any good reason anyone should trust them?
They've built some real strength in cloud services delivery, and they have massive capital reserves, but will that be enough to keep them profitable in the long term, in a computer device market dominated by smart phones, that stubbornly refuses to grant them any kind of competitive purchase?
And then there is the Elephant in the Room, the IoT, that has the potential to end the dominance of the smart phone as the world's leading personal computing device. As Microsoft chases the smart phone Holy Grail, are they chasing market share for a form factor that has already started down the long road to obsolescence?
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New Office 365 Features Help Build a Better Research Paper
Posted by: Richard Adhikari July 27, 2016 11:58 AMMicrosoft on Tuesday announced a slew of cloud-powered intelligent services in Office 365 apps that aim to assist research and writing efforts. Researcher lets users access the Bing Knowledge Graph to find and incorporate sources and content for research papers without leaving Word. Editor uses machine learning and national language processing, combined with input from Microsoft’s linguists, to make proofing and editing suggestions designed to help users improve their writing.
They've built some real strength in cloud services delivery, and they have massive capital reserves, but will that be enough to keep them profitable in the long term, in a computer device market dominated by smart phones, that stubbornly refuses to grant them any kind of competitive purchase?
And then there is the Elephant in the Room, the IoT, that has the potential to end the dominance of the smart phone as the world's leading personal computing device. As Microsoft chases the smart phone Holy Grail, are they chasing market share for a form factor that has already started down the long road to obsolescence?