> Microsoft regards all this promise first and foremost as proof of Azure Quantum Elements' usefulness to the customers it’s designed to serve.

> Unveiled last June, the cloud service is currently a "private preview" being tested by organizations such as Britain's Johnson Matthey, which is using it to help design catalytic converters and hydrogen fuel cells.

This article is the first I've heard of this branch of the Microsoft hydra.

That said, I wonder if researchers who interact with the platform are having the same Microsoft experience as we Enterprise users?

If they are, how do they cope with having critical UI components constantly shifting around, 3-cups style and reappearing with new names or locations or just moving totally different consoles/domains?

How do they find their lost UI components when most of Microsoft's online guides are out of date (including some that are months old)? Are they also dependent on kind souls on Reddit who find and post today's location?

Do their projects also require complex marble-drop-like Powershell procedures where every 3rd command fails on your fully updated PS instance and sends you digging thru already out of date online docs?

If they aren't, how can we Enterprise users get some of their sweet, sweet usable UIX ported over to our gaslit Azure nightmares?

File under big if true though perhaps an area where the hype has outrunned reality.

"Their prototype battery uses a novel combination of lithium and sodium, generating enough energy to power a lightbulb, as an initial proof of concept.

Researchers acknowledge that the chemistry has yet to be fully proven, and might not work at a larger scale. They say it’s nonetheless a promising development in the quest for alternatives to traditional lithium-ion batteries, which are widely used but have drawbacks such as scarcity, cost, environmental impact and safety." https://www.geekwire.com/2024/microsoft-and-pnnl-make-a-bett...

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.04070.pdf