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Xiaomi and Microsoft winning agreement: signed MoU agreement

The partnership between the two companies begins in 2015, when Microsoft signed an agreement to test Windows 10 on devices Xiaomi with the subsequent purchase by the Chinese OEM of notable patents for the operation of services on the various products of the brand. Today comes the news of another initiative that involves the two giants of technology, thanks to signature of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which involves them in the areas of cloud computing, artificial intelligence and hardware.

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This agreement could mean Xiaomi's willingness to increase its market share in the West, particularly in the United States where other suppliers are currently experiencing a period of general decline. On the other hand, Microsoft is now quite free from the mobile sector as its adventure with Windows Mobile seems to have come to an end and therefore can concentrate its forces on the partnership that binds it to Xiaomi of which Harry Shum, EVP of Microsoft Artificial Intelligence and Reaserach Group, He declares:

Xiaomi is one of the most innovative companies in China and is becoming more and more popular in various markets all over the world. The strengths and unique experience of Microsoft in the AI, as well as our products (such as Azure), will allow Xiaomi to develop cutting-edge technologies for everyone around the world.

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Xiaomi, on the other hand, from the voice of Wang Xiang, Global Senior Vice President and International Business Head of the company, replies:

Microsoft has been an excellent partner and we are pleased to see both companies deepen this relationship with this strategic MoU. Xiaomi's mission is to offer innovation to everyone around the world. Working with Microsoft on multiple technology areas, Xiaomi will accelerate the pace to deliver more interesting products and services to our users. At the same time, this partnership would allow Microsoft to reach more users around the world as users of Xiaomi products.

WHAT DOES THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE TWO COMPANIES?

The agreement covers four main areas of services for the two companies. The first will be the support of the cloud services, with the adoption of Xiaomi of the Microsoft Azure service for data archiving, bandwidth and processing in the international market. The second area will affect the world of notebooks Xiaomi with execution of the operating system provided by Microsoft, which will commit to the commercialization of the latter by intervening on the third area of ​​the project, ie development of smart speakers based on the Cortana AI.

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Lastly, on this last aspect the collaboration between the two companies will set off the flight for the future there are many projects in the pipeline and will involve multiple technologies such as Computer Vision, Speech, Natural Language Processing, Text Input, conversation with artificial intelligence, Knowledge Graph & Search but also Microsoft products and services such as Bing, Edge, Cortana, Translator, Pix, Cognitive Services, SwiftKey and Skype . All this with the purpose of integrate and improve Xiaomi's IoT network and related products.

Emanuele Iafulla
Emanuele Iafulla

Nerd, Geek, Netizen, terms that do not belong to me. Simply myself, technology lover and provocative as Xiaomi does with his products. High quality at fair prices, a real provocation for the other most famous brands.

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