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SharePoint Conference North America 2018

20/05/2018

SharePoint Conference North America is being held 21-23 May at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, USA.

With a keynote lined-up from Jeff Teper (Microsoft Corporate VP Office, OneDrive & SharePoint) and featuring over 140 sessions of content, this is where Microsoft will showcase its vision for the SharePoint roadmap, as well as the latest innovations. If there is a big announcement about SharePoint, this is where we will hear about it!

Follow @SPConf on Twitter for all the latest Conference reveals.

Machine Learning made for .NET – developer preview of ML.NET

14/05/2018

ML.NET is an open source and cross-platform machine learning framework built for .NET developers. Microsoft says it is an extensible framework, with support for Light GBM, Accord.NET, CNTK, and TensorFlow. The public release is still in development but there is an early developer preview available on Github which you can contribute to and get here.

For more details from the team behind the framework head over to the Microsoft .NET Blog: Introducing ML.NET: Cross-platform, Proven and Open Source Machine Learning Framework.

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Sharpen up your AI skillset with free Microsoft training

13/05/2018

Microsoft has launched AI School, a free online programme dedicated to Artificial Intelligence. Each course is broken down into modules and range from beginner through to advanced.

AI School provides a great way to learn how to build intelligence into your solutions with the Microsoft AI platform, including pre-trained AI services like Cognitive Services and Bot Framework, as well as deep learning tools like Azure Machine Learning, Visual Studio Code Tools for AI, and Cognitive Toolkit.

Get started here.

All the latest on the .NET Core 2.1 and .NET 3.0

11/05/2018

It is an exciting time in the world of .NET. Not only is the .NET Core 2.1 Release Candidate out, but we recently had the announcement from Microsoft that .NET Core 3.0 will land in 2019. So who better to summarise all of the latest news than Scott Hanselman?! Fresh from his his return from Microsoft Build 2018, Hanselman’s latest blog post covers all of the .NET Core announcements. You can read it on his website here: Announcing .NET Core 2.1 RC 1 Go Live AND .NET Core 3.0 Futures.

Watch Microsoft Build 2018 on demand

10/05/2018

Microsoft Build 2018, the organisation’s conference aimed at developers, concluded in Seattle, USA yesterday after 3 days of announcements, sessions and product demonstrations.

Content such as announcement snippets and PowerPoints from the event is available via Microsoft here. The Build 2018 team is currently compiling the entire schedule of 350+ sessions for on demand viewing and this will be available here shortly (registration required).

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