Rather than stuff Revolution R Open into a proprietary box, Microsoft is keeping the popular math-and-stats language open source under the GPL After Microsoft acquired Revolution Analytics and its ...

Revolution R Open is now called Microsoft R Open, and Microsoft continues its commitment of support for the open source R project, and to releasing regular updates to its enhanced, free distribution ...

Microsoft hasn't been standing still since it became the new commercial steward of the R programming language by acquiring R specialist Revolution Analytics a year ago. The company has been busy ...

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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 ""=""> Company officials also said ...

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Microsoft this month updated its R Open programming language with multi-processor performance highlighting new functionality. Microsoft R Open is the company's enhanced, open source distribution of R, ...

Microsoft -- the new commercial steward of the open source R programming language -- yesterday announced a revamp of its R-based offerings, including a free developer edition of its rebranded ...

Microsoft this week took the next step following its acquisition of Revolution Analytics last year by unwrapping an advanced-analytics platform of its own based on the open source R programming ...

Microsoft quietly made available this week a new family of R Server data-analytics products. Thanks to a tweet from Tero Alhonen, I found listings on MSDN for a family of new Microsoft R Server ...

The Microsoft Data Science Virtual Machine will include a pre-installed and pre-configured version of Microsoft R Server Developer Edition. Revolution R Open is now Microsoft R Open and is available ...