Developer buying power is driving cloud providers like microsoft to innovate in areas like machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR), and other emerging technologies that have incredible potential across the enterprise.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning consider the numbers behind the developers: nearly three-quarters of developers (68%) surveyed by evans data say they are the primary decision maker in their organization when it comes to influencing cloud infrastructure purchases, and another 22% are on a committee that makes those decisions.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning

The microsoft developer conference build ran this week in seattle, where the company released a staggering 25 new services aimed at making it easy for developers to deploy applications to its public cloud.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning the announcements, made to around 6,000 developers at the event and many thousands more watching online, included new integrations with github, the hosting and development service that microsoft acquired in october 2018.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning

GitHub users can now sign into microsoft applications using their github account, going from repository to deployment with a single sign-on. The new login system automatically matches a user’s github account to an existing microsoft identity, assuming they have one, or creates one for the user.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning microsoft said this is the first step toward improving microsoft services for github users.

“microsoft is satisfying the developer community by providing capabilities to realize intelligent applications faster and better than ever from the public cloud to the edge.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning winning developers' mindshare is critical to winning market share and microsoft appreciates that. In that sense, microsoft used this year's build to demonstrate its commitment to open source,” kumar said.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning

Aside from the $7.5 billion acquisition of github, microsoft has invested in open source, cloud and AI through its hiring of developer advocates.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning microsoft says employees in this role “engage in outreach to developers and others in the software ecosystem, all designed to further technical education and proficiency with the microsoft cloud + AI platform.” they are also bringing deeper open source knowledge to the company.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning

In this area, microsoft released significant updates to azure cognitive services, including a new category called decision that deliver specific recommendations to end users through services like personalizer, an API.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning the company also said it is making more cognitive services available on the edge and on-premises through the use of containers.

“although microsoft does not divulge azure revenues, by all market estimates, it is second to AWS in cloud revenues,” kumar said.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning recent data shows that in Q1 2019, AWS had 33% of market share, more than double microsoft’s 16% market share. “so it is trying to introduce more services to match AWS and catch developers' attention.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning it is quite timely given that a growing number of developers are utilizing the cloud, now more than ever, to build more connected applications for iot devices and ML applications to derive insights and deliver digital experiences.”