Azure and Office 365 boosted with some AI

Microsoft announced AI-based updates for the Office 365 productivity suite and the Azure cloud computing service.

Azure, Microsoft’s cloud computing service, is getting two big updates in the form of general availability of the Azure Bot Service and Cognitive Services Language Understanding tools.

And Office 365, Microsoft’s productivity suite has been updated with a ton of features including Insights in Excel-a new service that is said to automatically highlight patterns from the data making it easier to analyse. With this update, Microsoft is  demystifying corporate jargon and helping users avoid running late to meetings.