Windows in short: predicting traffic jams with Azure
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After a break, today our section Windows in short comes back to life, to review the details of the news that took place this week in the world of Redmond.
And what more important news than the fulfillment of 40 years since the founding of Microsoft As Javier Pastor says in Xataka, it's incredible think about how Redmond has managed to stay at the top of a highly changing sector for 4 decades, and even more so if we consider that, given its current process of reinvention, it is likely that Microsoft's leadership will not end here, but will continue forever. much longer.
Bill Gates himself highlights this point in a letter sent to the company's employees, pointing out that the most important thing for Microsoft is not It's not just your past, but your future.
April Fools Day Jokes
"Another milestone of the week, although much less consequential, was the classic April Fools Day (the Anglo-Saxon equivalent of our day of the innocent) that many Microsoft teams took advantage of to unleash their humor, making jokes related to the company&39;s products."
"The most notable of these was the MS-DOS Mobile released by the mobile division (and consisting of an actual application that can be downloaded and used). In turn, Bing announced its Cute Cloud, a search engine specializing in cute photos of dogs and cats, and OneDrive introduced Shake to Cloud, a feature that would allow you to save photos in the cloud by literally shaking your phone toward the clouds."
On top of that, Microsoft also released Clippy's code on GitHub, Bing UK introduced a tap-based search system the screen with the palm of the hand and Outlook.com announced a ground mail delivery service.
For their part, the Skype team preferred to stay out of the jokes, at least for this year:
Xbox and PC games: new releases and trailer for GTA V at 60fps
In the world of Xbox and PC gaming there was also a lot of news during the week. Microsoft's console received quite a few new game releases and downloadable content, including:
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