The amount of data that the big cloud computing providers now store is staggering, so it’s no surprise that most store all of this information as compressed data in some form or another — just like ...

Microsoft is open-sourcing its cloud-compression algorithm and optimized hardware implementation for cloud storage. Microsoft is contributing that algorithm, known as ""=""> plus the associated ...

Microsoft has co-launched the "Education Open Data Challenge," to establish the link between broadband access and K-12 learning outcomes. The company will be working with the Open Data Institute on ...

Microsoft is continuing to release more datacenter building blocks as open source as part of its Open Compute Project (OCP) work. Today, simultaneous with the kick-off of the OCP Global Summit, ...

Microsoft today announced that it has open-sourced a key piece of what makes its Bing search services able to quickly return search results to its users. By making this technology open, the company ...

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Microsoft announced that it's joining the Open Invention Network, an open-source patent group that's dedicated to protecting linux from lawsuits. And in the process, Microsoft has made 60,000 of its ...

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But will it set a real standard for MongoDB alternatives? Analysis When Microsoft rolled out an open source extension stack for PostgreSQL to handle document-style data, it wasn't just taking aim at ...

Microsoft Corp. researchers today open-sourced Pi-3 Mini, a language model with 3.8 billion parameters that can outperform neural networks more than 10 times its size. The company says that Pi-3 Mini ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Microsoft and OpenAI are reportedly in discussions regarding a new data center project to be headquartered in the U.S. The ...