Microsoft Build goes gaga for AI: Azure Machine Learning and beyond ZDNet

For the first couple of years that Microsoft held its Build conference, the event was all about Windows. In the years since, the scope has widened and Build has become the company's broad annual developer confab. At this year's show, being held today through Wednesday in Seattle, there is no shortage of data- and AI-related announcements and demonstrations. If you needed proof that both are crucial to Microsoft's success, even eclipsing Windows in importance, this year's show is it. On the AI side, there's so much to discuss, it's hard to know where to begin.