[thewhitetulip]

MS has always shown that they can do research, halolens is one such product and the recent ML enablement spree is another example. It is a good thing that they are going beyond their comfort zone of milking Windows. What is interesting is to see if their efforts make any difference in the status quo. I say this after using AzureML, which I liked, there is no such thing on the internet which allows you to write a ML model without knowing a programming language! It is a webapp which asks you to put data inside it, click a few buttons and it generates python or R code for you. Just brilliant.

[dforrestwilson1]

Thanks for the comment I had not seen this before.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/machine-learning/

^Basic version is free to use!

[thewhitetulip]

Yes, basic version is free to use and it truly is an amazing application. MS feels like a company with a direction :-)

Had they had this direction ten years ago, probably android would not have existed!

[oedenfield]

It also has a Jupyter Notebook service piece currently in preview.

https://notebooks.azure.com/

(full disclosure: employee here)

[thewhitetulip]

I'll love it when Jupyter 2.0 is supported if it isnt currently supported. Great product!