Microsoft Makes Moves to Dominate Big Data Analytics

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is making moves to dominate the big data analytics market.
According to an article on Forbes, the company has already made headway:

By acquiring the R-language and data crunching specialist Revolution Analytics, a purchase it completed in spring of 2015.
In non-developer-speak then, R is a popular open-source statistical computing language well suited to the ‘new’ world of enterprise class big data analytics. For the record, we used to call this stuff ‘data mining’ back in the 1990s (some people still do), so don’t believe ALL the big data hype you read — regardless, times have changed and we’re better at it now.
In Microsoft’s own words, the pitch here is as follows, “Microsoft R Server is your flexible choice for analyzing data at scale, building intelligent apps and discovering valuable insights across your business.”

Click here to read the full article on Forbes.