Laurent Giret

Nvidia announced several new AI products at the Computex annual trade show in Taipei, Taiwan. The biggest announcements made by the chip maker include the Nvidia DGX GH200, a new supercomputer designed for enterprise AI, an accelerated networking platform for hyperscale generative AI, as well as a new modular server architecture optimized for AI workloads….

Microsoft is continuing its work to make Windows on ARM a better platform for app developers. Last year, the company announced at Build 2022 a complete development toolchain for Windows on ARM that includes native versions of Visual Studio 2022 and VSCode, Windows Terminal, and the Windows Subsystem for Linux and Windows Subsystem for Android. …

Microsoft Dev Box, the company’s new Azure service that provides access to a developer workstation in the cloud is getting new features ahead of its general availability. Following the launch of a public preview back in August, Microsoft announced at its Build developer conference today that Microsoft Dev Box will become generally available in July…

Microsoft has been caught scanning for malware in password-protected zip files stored on SharePoint Online. Andrew Brandt, a security researcher who uses Microsoft’s cloud services to save copies of malware in password-protected zip files shared his surprise after Microsoft had flagged some of his files that had been uploaded into a SharePoint directory as malware. …

Google announced this week that Calendar Interoperability improvements are now available for users of Microsoft Outlook. Calendar Interoperability is what allows Google Calendar and Microsoft Exchange to seamlessly work together, allowing users of both systems to share their schedules and view availability information. It used to be true that Outlook works best with Microsoft Exchange…

Google kicked off its annual I/O developer conference yesterday by showing it was very serious about catching up to competitors in the AI space. Duet AI is the new name of Google’s generative AI efforts, and the company detailed yesterday what to expect from Duet AI in Google Workspace, as well as Duet AI for…

Microsoft has just released the May 2023 Patch Tuesday updates for Windows 11 and Windows 10.  This month, Microsoft fixed a total of 38 security flaws in Windows and other components, and there are seven critical vulnerabilities in the list.   On the quality and experience updates front, Microsoft has fixed an interoperability issue between…

Microsoft is removing the waitlist for its new AI-powered Bing today, and the company also detailed several new features to enhance the search experience with AI. The software giant also plans to turn its Bing chatbot into a platform and let developers create third-party plugins for it, echoing the recent launch of the first plugins…

Microsoft detailed yesterday several new updates coming to its SharePoint platform over the coming months, including a new AI-powered Copilot experience. Microsoft has an ambitious product roadmap for SharePoint sites and pages this year, and advanced image editing features and a new integration of Sharepoint pages into emails will roll out first in the next…

Microsoft announced updates for its Windows 11 and Windows 10 support roadmaps yesterday, and the biggest news is that a Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) version of Windows 11 will be released in the second half of 2024. This should be good news for organizations that have been waiting to upgrade their PCs to Windows 11…

Microsoft announced this week that it’s planning to move its various Microsoft 365 web apps to a unified cloud.microsoft domain. This should really help to simplify access to Microsoft 365 apps and services on the web as the various subdomains Microsoft currently uses result in an inconsistent experience for users.  “As Microsoft cloud services have…

Google has just announced at the RSA Conference 2023 its new Cloud Security AI Workbench, which will offer various AI-powered tools to help cybersecurity experts address security threats. The Google Cloud Security AI Workbench relies on a new large language model (LLM) named Sec-PALM, and it also leverages technology from Mandiant, a cybersecurity company Google…