Microsoft’s
Big Data Push
As technology grows and computers
become ever more popular the world has encountered a major problem. Mountains
of data that is tremendously hard to analyze in any meaningful manner. But
along comes Microsoft flexing its muscles in the field of Big Data and soon
will release new software and other products that will allow Microsoft to be
more competitive with the likes of Amazon Web Services and Google in the realm
of Big Data. This will hopefully allow Microsoft’s advanced research arm, to
return to the forefront of technology.
One of the new products that
Microsoft intends on releasing is a new version of Excel that could scan millions
of posts from social media sites or crunch large amounts of any type data. This would allow the average Joe to perform data
mining on their home PC with just the standard Office suit and some simple key
strokes. Also, they plan on releasing a new version of Outlook that could learn
users’ habits and tailor Outlook to the users’ needs. They are calling this new
software, machine learning software. Microsoft also hopes to use Azure to compete
with Amazon’s AWS. The founder of Kaggle, Anthony Goldbloom, says this “Azure is a real threat to Amazon Web
Services, Google and other cloud companies because of its installed base,…, they
have data from places like Bing and Xbox, and in Excel they have the world’s
most widely used analysis software.”
I believe this is a great step for
Microsoft moving them into a field that is still up and coming and not lagging
behind or becoming stagnate as other long time tech companies have over the
years. With the immense amount of revenue they create Microsoft has the
potential to create very helpful software and make it easily distributed it
office suit users. Using its huge financial backing and its massive think tank
of scholars Microsoft is pushing to become Big Data’s NEXT BIG THING.
For a more in depth article please
refer to the link in the sources below…
Sources: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/30/technology/microsoft-renews-relevance-with-machine-learning-technology.html?_r=0
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