Microsoft has announced that its Windows 10 Operating System (OS) is now present on 500 million devices across like PCs, tablets and smartphones during yesterday's Microsoft Build Developer conference. The company was able to reach this milestone after almost two years after the Windows 10 launch. Here is a detailed list of updates that Microsoft had announced during yesterday’s developer conference: Microsoft Custom Vision Developers can now create customized computer vision apps and APIs that can be used to identifying objects, food, humans or even landmarks in a given image, reports TheNextWeb. This is done using image processing, deep learning and other AI processing methods. A developer can create Custom Vision APIs by first loading sample images. Image processing will be employed on these samples to find patterns, properties, colour codes, etc. that can be extracted. Custom Vision is a part of Microsoft Cognitive Services, which was released in last year’s Build Conference. Cognitive Services include a set 22 APIs categorized across Vision, Speech, Language, Knowledge, and Search. Note that Google had released a similar app last month: Auto Draw, a web-based drawing tool, combines machine learning with drawings from artists to help suggest lines, shapes, etc. that can be used to complete an image. Microsoft Office now has AI features The company said that it is now integrating AI processing into its products like Xbox, Windows, and even Office. On the Microsoft Office segment, it unveiled Office Researcher—a search and discovery tool which uses AI to quickly retrieve documents and help users to…
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