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Microsoft is adding new data agents to Fabric, its cloud-based offering combining data warehousing, data science, data engineering, and data analytics services. Its goal is to help business users find insights in enterprise data without the help of a business analyst. Most enterprises either don’t have business analysts or their analysts are too busy to deal with all the demands for their services, said Arun Ulag, corporate vice president of Azure Data at Microsoft. That’s why self-service analytics tools like those Microsoft is adding to Fabric are necessary, he said. The new data agents will be available across all Fabric [...]
CIOs should prepare for a 76.4% rise in global generative AI (genAI) spending this year, driven by improved foundational models and growing demand, according to a Gartner research report released today. Organizations are expected to spend $644 billion worldwide on genAI projects despite high failure rates among early projects, the lion’s share of which will be on services. GenAI services are expected to grow 162% this year after jumping 177% last year. GenAI software, which grew 255% in 2024, will only grow by 93% this year. Perhaps the biggest shift, however, is in genAI devices, which are predicted to rise [...]
Need to get up to speed on the latest features in Excel? Wrestling with an old version of Word? Finding your way around Windows 11 or looking to get more out of Windows 10? Computerworld’s cheat sheets are easy-to-use guides to help you navigate Microsoft’s core productivity software. Here’s a one-stop resource where you can find in-depth stories on several generations of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook for Windows, focusing on what’s new in each major release. We’ve also got guides for Windows itself, as well as Microsoft Teams, OneDrive (both in Windows and on the web), OneNote, Loop, Whiteboard, [...]
Your weekly round-up of the questions asked by readers of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World sees Smart Answers offering advice on how IT security certifications help career advancement; how can companies overcome the complexity of S/4HANA migration projects; and why are cloud credentials so easily compromised in cyberattacks? Certification for CISO Success Cybersecurity certifications are known to support lucrative career advancement. Hoping to help our IT professional readers improve their careers, this week we reported on the certs providing the largest pay boosts right now. But – hard as this is to believe – money isn’t everything. Readers [...]
How many group chats are you involved in? For me, it varies. Right now, there are only two — and both are of a more private nature. Group chats are something that’s not really discussed much; they represent a newer technical form of communication that perhaps is better understood as a way of organizing oneself socially. As such, it has emerged sort of organically. It has never been a “trend” to start group chats and there is really no major innovation behind it. Despite that, almost everyone now participates in various forms of group chats. It can be with family [...]
Windows 11 24H2 has been released, but behind the scenes, Microsoft is constantly working to improve the newest version of Windows. The company frequently rolls out public preview builds to members of its Windows Insider Program, allowing them to test out — and even help shape — upcoming features. Skip to the builds The Windows Insider program is divided into four channels: The Canary Channel is where platform changes (such as major updates to the Windows kernel and new APIs) are previewed. These changes are not tied to a particular Windows release and may never ship at all. Little documentation [...]
What if you could build a business-specific generative AI (genAI) solution that was hosted in the cloud? What if that cloud used the most energy-efficient systems in the world? And what if those services were also all running on the world’s most secure computing platform, the Mac? Wonder no more, because MacStadium and webAI just made this real. We’ve talked about both companies before. MacStadium is a force to be reckoned with and offered the first major deployment of hosted Apple-as-a-service cloud solutions; webAI, meanwhile, has created quite a stir with its offering, which runs quite happily on a MacBook Air – and runs [...]
New generative AI (genAI) models introduced this week by Google and OpenAI have put the companies’ data centers under stress — and both companies are trying to catch up to demand. OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman on Thursday tweeted that his company was temporarily restricting the use of GPUs after overwhelming demand for its image generation service on ChatGPT. The move came one day after OpenAI introduced the 4o image-generation tool. “It’s super fun seeing people love images in ChatGPT. But our GPUs are melting,” Altman wrote in a post on X. OpenAI primarily relies on Nvidia GPUs to power its ChatGPT service, [...]
Generative AI (genAI) companies are starting to do real damage to the internet. One of the internet’s main purposes is to serve as a global network for free and open communication and information exchange between scientists, academics, and the public and to be an uncensorable place for the expression of free speech. (One of the most dangerous threats to the internet is recent bipartisan support for repealing Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which, if actually repealed, would seriously harm free speech online. That’s an issue you can read about on the EFF website.) The purest expression of the internet’s [...]
QWERTY, QWERTY, QWERTY. QWERTY. Oh — hi there! Sorry for the slightly nonsensical greeting. I’ve been thinking a lot about keyboards this week, y’see, and how that trusty ol’ QWERTY surface has evolved in our lives. Also, saying “QWERTY” over and over again is surprisingly fun to do. Go ahead and try it. I’ll wait. Back? Cool. So, about that QWERTY contemplation: ‘Twas a time not so long ago that our QWERTY interactions on the mobile-tech front revolved almost entirely around actual physical keys. (Drooooooid, anyone?) Then, even when we started relying on on-screen QWERTY surfaces, we were hunting and [...]