Microsoft is working to bring open source machine learning models into Azure applications and services.

And to that end, Microsoft officially announced at the Strata Conference today, the general availability of the Azure Machine Learning service for big data processing in the cloud.

Microsoft is joining the Databricks-backed MLflow project for machine learning experiment management. Already present in Azure Databricks, a fully managed version of MLflow will be added to Azure ...

Machine learning and predictive analytics are hot, emerging areas of the developer space right now, and Microsoft's new Azure cloud service could help make it more accessible to the masses.

Since the company began exploring ways to bring Azure AI into the game in 2016, the capabilities of machine learning have also evolved dramatically, according to Boyd.