9 Best Articles in 2020
Visual Capitalist
Chart: Here's How 5 Tech Giants Make Their Billions
Visual Capitalist
5 min read · 358 saves · From 2017 · on May 12, 2017 at 1:03 pm The Chart of the Week is a weekly Visual Capitalist feature on Fridays. Last year, we published a chart showing that tech companies have displaced traditional blue chip…
The Verge
Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates
The Verge
4 min read · 294 saves · Aug 6th · James Vincent · Microsoft Excel: 1 — Human Genetics: 0.
The Verge
Microsoft is letting employees work from home permanently
The Verge
2 min read · 247 saves · Oct 9th · Tom Warren · Microsoft employees also have options to relocate across the US or internationally
The Verge
Microsoft’s new Fluid Office document is Google Docs on steroids
The Verge
7 min read · 246 saves · May 19th · Tom Warren · Fluid is Microsoft’s big push for entirely new documents on the web.
VentureBeat
Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer
VentureBeat
9 min read · 238 saves · From 2017 · What happens to a company when a visionary CEO is gone? Most often, innovation dies and the company coasts for years on momentum and its brand.?Rarely does it regain its former glory.
github.blog
npm is joining GitHub
github.blog
1 min read · 233 saves · Mar 16th · We're excited to announce that npm will be joining GitHub.
The Verge
Microsoft has reportedly acquired GitHub
The Verge
2 min read · 230 saves · From 2018 · Deal could be announced on Monday
Stratechery
The Slack Social Network
Stratechery
10 min read · 205 saves · Jul 7th · Ben Thompson · Slack lost to Microsoft head-to-head, but has smartly shifted to a horizontal strategy that the vertically-oriented Microsoft can’t match.
The Verge
Microsoft: we were wrong about open source
The Verge
1 min read · 205 saves · May 18th · Tom Warren · A lot has changed since Steve Ballmer branded Linux "a cancer" in 2001.
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Axios
Five tech giants are harder to slay than one
Axios
2 min read · 31 saves · From 2011 · Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft are all competing with one another.
blogs.microsoft.com
With reinforcement learning, Microsoft brings a new class of AI solutions to customers
blogs.microsoft.com
4 min read · 16 saves · Dec 7th · Personalizer, the first Azure Cognitive Service to be built on reinforcement learning, grew out of a close collaboration between Microsoft researchers and Azure product experts. They wanted to help…
ZDNet
Microsoft and industry partners seize key domain used in SolarWinds hack
ZDNet
4 min read · 15 saves · Dec 15th · By seizing the domain, Microsoft and its partners hope to identify all victims, but are also preventing attackers from escalating intrusions in currently infected networks.
Business Insider
How Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is using acquisition after acquisition to power his plan to take on…
Business Insider
3 min read · 11 saves · Dec 5th · May Teng · Salesforce's Slack acquisition is just the latest in a string of more than 60 acquisitions that Benioff has made to expand the company's capabilities.