Microsoft’s premiere technology conference Ignite is underway and Allcloud is on site in Orlando.

The following cloud highlights have been announced:

Azure

• New tools and capabilities for Azure Machine Learning, including new AML Workbench client
• Azure Policy, Azure Security Center, and other services expand support for hybrid workloads
• PowerShell comes to Azure Cloud Shell
• General Availability of several Cognitive Services
• Service Fabric for Linux now Generally Available
• Compliance Manager in preview for Azure, Dynamics 365, and Office 365
• Microsoft starts testing Azure Databox for bulk transfers up to 100TB

Office 365

• Bing for Business provides integrated search across the Microsoft Graph
• Microsoft Teams adding voice and video communications, to supplant Skype for Business
• Office 365 adds F1 SKU to serve 2 billion “Firstline Workers”
• LinkedIn profile cards coming to Office 365 and Outlook
• Microsoft Graph and client SSO improvements coming soon
• SharePoint, Exchange, and Skype for Business Server 2019 and updated Office clients coming in 2018

Other

• Microsoft outlines roadmap for quantum computing
• SQL Server 2017 launches for Windows and Linux next week

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