Among the new features is support for Azure Machine Learning and custom JavaScript functions to Excel to extend its capabilities. Excel now also allows Power BI developers to bring the custom visuals they created for Power BI to Excel.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/excel/custom-functions-overview

Microsoft is bringing Ubuntu Linux to Windows 10 on ARM
https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-is-bringing-ubuntu-linux-to-windows-10-on-arm

It was this time last year that Microsoft announced that it was bringing Ubuntu to the Windows Store (now the Microsoft Store), along with other Linux distributions. If you check out the app in the Store now though, you’ll find that it only works on x64 devices, meaning that you can’t run it on any of the new Windows 10 on ARM PCs.

It was sort of like Where’s Waldo. Except I was thinking “Where’s Windows?”

Microsoft’s three-and-a-half hour opening keynote on Monday
the word “Windows” was mentioned just a little more than a dozen times.

It was even worse for “PC.” That term came up a whopping seven times

What we do care about is AI and the web. Or we will very soon.

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Microsoft’s Snip Insights puts A.I. technology into a screenshot-taking tool
Sarah Perez
@sarahintampa / 10 hours ago

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A team of Microsoft interns have thought up a new way to put A.I. technology to work – in a screenshot snipping tool. Microsoft today is launching their project, Snip Insights, a Windows desktop app that lets you retrieve intelligent insights – or even turn a scan of a textbook or report into an editable document – when you take a screenshot on your PC.

The team’s manager challenged the interns to think up a way to integrate A.I. into a widely used tool, used by millions.

Windows Notepad fixed after 33 years: Now it finally handles Unix, Mac OS line endings
So happy for you, Microsoft, \r\n
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/08/windows_notepad_unix_linux_macos/

Microsoft delivers new edge-computing tools that use its speech, camera, AI technologies
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-delivers-new-edge-computing-tools-that-use-its-speech-camera-ai-technologies/

Microsoft is shifting its main focus at Build 2018 from Windows to the intelligent edge, and is looking to attract developers with new kits, tools and more.

Microsoft is out to show that it can still be a player in the computing realm, even as it moves further away from its heritage as “the Windows company.”

On the opening day of its annual Build developer conference — the first since its reorg last month via which Windows was split up and integrated into other units at the company — Microsoft is showing off the Internet of Things (IoT) and edge-computing tools and technologies it has to offer both hardware and software developers.

Last year at Build, Microsoft officials talked up the edge-computing piece of the company’s evolving “intelligent cloud/intelligent edge” strategy. Microsoft defines the “edge” broadly as where users interact with the cloud. Edge devices can be anything from virtual-reality/mixed-reality headsets, to drones, to on-premises PCs and servers.

On May 7 at Build 2018, Microsoft officials are making a number of new edge announcements. The company is open sourcing the Azure IoT Edge Runtime to allow customers to modify and debug more easily.

Microsoft is enabling its Custom Vision cognitive service to run on Azure IoT Edge so that devices like drones and industrial equipment can perform vision-related activities even when not connected to the cloud.

Windows Notepad fixed after 33 years: Now it finally handles Unix, Mac OS line endings
So happy for you, Microsoft, \r\n
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/08/windows_notepad_unix_linux_macos/

Windows Notepad users, rejoice! Microsoft’s text editing app, which has been shipping with Windows since version 1.0 in 1985, has finally been taught how to handle line endings in text files created on Linux, Unix, Mac OS, and macOS devices.

“This has been a major annoyance for developers, IT Pros, administrators, and end users throughout the community,” Microsoft acknowledged in a blog post today, without touching on why the issue was allowed to fester for more than three decades.