The new hires come as Microsoft continues to assert leadership ... He left the solution provider in 2017 with the title of director of big data and research and development innovation labs architect.

LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman — the entrepreneur, author, podcaster, venture capitalist and Microsoft board member — is on the front lines of the artificial intelligence revolution.

Google Cloud, for example, was able to recently hire ... Microsoft in top engineering roles. He departed Microsoft in 2018 as partner director of Software Engineering for Microsoft’s Azure Data ...