A newly unveiled introductory course for machine learning on Azure will be available for free on Udacity. A set of chosen top performers will then get scholarships for a more advanced course.

Using these courses you will learn how to design Microsoft Azure solutions, configure cloud storage, use Azure for machine learning, and more.

This tool, the Azure Machine Learning visual interface, looks suspiciously like the existing Azure ML Studio, Microsoft’s first stab at building a visual machine learning tool.