Microsoft ’s purchase of Revolution Analytics last week is the wrong way for the brainy crew in Redmond to embrace the R language for data science and analytics. The deal represents a strong step ...

Last week, Microsoft quietly made available to its MSDN and DreamSpark subscribers its R Server family of products. On January 12, Microsoft announced officially the availability and rebranding of the ...

Microsoft acquires Revolution Analytics, a commercial provider of services for the open source R programming language for statistical computing and predictive analytics. Microsoft today closed its ...

It's limited in power, but low in price: R Client provides a reduced but functional set of features from the full Microsoft R Server product If you’ve been hungering to make use of the advanced number ...

R, the open source programming language that is extremely popular with data professionals, seems to be Microsoft's latest religion. And, with the planned June 1st General Availability date for SQL ...

Now that Microsoft is supporting development of the R language, it could take the next step and deliver R as an Azure service -- without running afoul of the GPL With word circulating that Microsoft ...

Microsoft R Open, the company's enhanced, open source distribution of the R programming language especially suited for Big Data statistical analysis and data science, has been upgraded. Moving to ...