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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months

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Microsoft technical breakdown of CrowdStrike incident

We examine the recent CrowdStrike outage and provide a technical overview of the root cause.

Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on January 12, 2016

Microsoft to acquire Nokia

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Microsoft finds privilege escalation vulnerability in Huawei driver

Our discovery of two privilege escalation vulnerabilities in a driver highlights the strength of Microsoft Defender ATP’s sensors. These sensors expose anomalous behavior and give SecOps personnel the intelligence and tools to investigate threats, as we did.

Turing-NLG: A 17B-parameter language model

This figure was adapted from a similar image published in DistilBERT. Turing Natural Language Generation (T-NLG) is a 17 billion parameter language model by Microsoft that outperforms the state of the art on many downstream NLP tasks. We present a demo of the model, including its freeform generation, question…

Steve Ballmer steps down as board member at Microsoft

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Applying programming language research ideas to transform spreadsheets

Spreadsheets are the world’s most widely used programming language, by several orders of magnitude. We asked ourselves whether it would be possible to apply programming language research ideas to make spreadsheets a better programming language? If we could, that would empower a huge user community to do more. One of…

DEV-0537 targeting organizations for data exfiltration and destruction

The activity we have observed has been attributed to a threat group that Microsoft tracks as DEV-0537, also known as LAPSUS$. DEV-0537 is known for using a pure extortion and destruction model without deploying ransomware payloads.

GraphRAG is now on GitHub

GraphRAG, a graph-based approach to retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) that significantly improves question-answering over private or previously unseen datasets, is now available on GitHub. Learn more:

Attack Matrix for Kubernetes

While Kubernetes has many advantages, it also brings new security challenges.

Phi-2: The surprising power of small language models

Phi-2 is now accessible on the Azure model catalog. Its compact size and new innovations in model scaling and training data curation make it ideal for exploration around mechanistic interpretability, safety improvements, and fine-tuning experimentation on a variety of tasks.

Static TypeScript: A Static Compiler for the TypeScript Language

Static TypeScript is designed to be useful in practice (especially in education), while being amenable to static compilation targeting small devices.

Microsoft reorganizes

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P: A programming language for asynchrony, fault-tolerance and uncertainty

To address the challenges of asynchronous computation, we have developed the P programming language for modeling and specifying protocols.

A fork() in the road

The received wisdom suggests that Unix’s unusual combination of fork() and exec() for process creation was an inspired design. In this paper, we argue that fork was a clever hack for machines and programs of the 1970s that has long outlived its usefulness and is now a liability. We catalog the ways in which fork […]

Windows 8 Arrives

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Analyzing the compromised DLL file that started the Solorigate attack

We, along with the security industry and our partners, continue to investigate the extent of the Solorigate attack. While investigations are underway, we want to provide the defender community with intel to understand the scope and impact, remediation guidance, and detections and protections we have built as a result.

Microsoft's Guide to Humor

Microsoft reports record first-quarter revenue of $18.53 billion

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Windows 365 Cloud PC

Updated on August 2, 2021: Windows 365 is now generally available to businesses of all sizes. Learn more about Windows 365 and experience it today. As some regions begin to make their way out of the challenges and disruption of the past 18 months, we’re seeing a new world of work emerge.

Lambda: The Ultimate Excel Worksheet Function

Microsoft Excel the programming language is evolving. With the recent release of LAMBDA, users can now define new functions in the program’s formula language. Learn about the capability and its role in the transformation of spreadsheet formulas.

Predicting Stock Performance with Natural Language Deep Learning

We developed an NLP deep learning model using a one-dimensional convolutional neural network to predict future stock market performance of companies using Azure ML Workbench and Keras with open source for you to replicate.

Microsoft Statement Regarding MSN China Joint Venture’s Juku Feature

Microsoft Zero and DeepSpeed: Memory Efficient Large Neural Network Training

The latest trend in AI is that larger natural language models provide better accuracy; however, larger models are difficult to train because of cost, time, and ease of code integration. Microsoft is releasing an open-source library called DeepSpeed, which vastly advances large model training by improving scale, speed…

Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5

Unlock new experiences with Microsoft Teams Premium for customers looking to make meetings more intelligent, personalized, and protected.

Simple Encrypted Arithmetic Library goes open source

Today we are extremely excited to announce that our Microsoft Simple Encrypted Arithmetic Library (Microsoft SEAL), an easy-to-use homomorphic encryption library developed by researchers in the Cryptography Research group at Microsoft, is open source on GitHub under an MIT License for free use. The library has already…

Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit 2.0

Creating ad hoc microphone arrays from personal devices (2019)

Researchers in the Microsoft Speech and Dialog Research Group have made an ad hoc microphone array by allowing meeting participants to join their phones together to enable more accurate meeting transcriptions. Explore how this array outperforms a single-device system.

Microsoft has detected nation-state activity associated with NOBELIUM

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has detected nation-state activity associated with the threat actor tracked as NOBELIUM, attempting to gain access to downstream customers of multiple cloud service providers (CSP), managed service providers (MSP), and other IT services organizations.