Microsoft Fabric is a data analytics platform. It’s probably one of the biggest data product announcements from the software giant since SQL server. It’s designed to pull data from Microsoft’s OneLake data lake, Amazon S3, and even Google Cloud soon. Microsoft has even added an AI Copilot to Microsoft Fabric, too.
A big part of Microsoft’s announcements at Build this year is OpenAI interoperability for Bing plug-ins, Microsoft Copilot plug-ins, and ChatGPT plug-ins. This means developers and users can create plug-ins that work across multiple chatbots, thanks to Microsoft’s close partnership with OpenAI. Read more about it here.
Bing will now be the default search engine in OpenAI’s ChatGPT AI chatbot. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella demonstrated how it works on stage at Microsoft Build today. “This is just the start of what we plan to do with our partners in OpenAI to bring the best of Bing to the ChatGPT experience,” says Nadella. Read more about how it works here.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is on stage discussing platform shifts and recounting memories of previous tech changes. For Microsoft this year’s Build is all about artificial intelligence. You can watch the keynote right here or check out the latest announcements from Microsoft Build right here.
Ahoy, matey! Microsoft is finally adding in native RAR support into Windows 11. While you’ve been able to open ZIP files for years in Windows, WinRAR or something similar was always required for RAR files. Archive formats like tar, 7-zip, RAR, gz and many others will now be supported using the libarchive open-source project.
[Windows Developer Blog]
Microsoft announced an AI “personal assistant” for Windows 11 earlier today. Windows Copilot already looks like it will be the star of Microsoft Build. It’s integrated right into Windows 11 and available to open from the taskbar across all apps to summarize documents, help control system settings, and much more. Check out our full article on Windows Copilot here.
