Keeping shelves stocked and consumers happy (and shopping!)
Being a working parent of two young children, I try to limit how much time I spend on household errands. I am one of those shoppers who has become conditioned to shopping based on convenience and ease....
View ArticleMicrosoft Azure Data welcomes attendees to VLDB 2018
Hello VLDB attendees! Welcome to Rio De Janeiro. I wanted to take this opportunity to share with you some of the exciting work in data that’s going on in the Azure Data team at Microsoft, and to invite...
View ArticleTurn your whiteboard sketches to working code in seconds with Sketch2Code
User interface design process involves a lot a creativity that starts on a whiteboard where designers share ideas. Once a design is drawn, it is usually captured within a photograph and manually...
View ArticleASP.NET Core 2.2.0-preview1: Endpoint Routing
Endpoint Routing in 2.2 What is it? We’re making a big investment in routing starting in 2.2 to make it interoperate more seamlessly with middleware. For 2.2 this will start with us making a few...
View ArticleTypeScript and Babel 7
Today we’re excited to announce something special for Babel users. Over a year ago, we set out to find what the biggest difficulties users were running into with TypeScript, and we found that a common...
View ArticleBing helps you learn more about the news in less time
Being an informed consumer of the news is more challenging today than it used to be. We live in a busy world where dozens of headlines compete for our attention every day. On top of that, it’s...
View ArticleHelping Go developers build better cloud apps faster
As GopherCon kicks off today with nearly 2,000 gophers gathering in Denver, we’re excited to share our latest offerings and announcements for Go developers. Since making the Azure SDK for Go generally...
View ArticleA quick take on the State of Hybrid Cloud survey
What does hybrid cloud mean to IT professionals, and why are so many companies using it? Microsoft conducted a survey with research firm Kantar TNS in January 2018, asking more than 1700 respondents to...
View ArticleExtracting actionable insights from IoT data to drive more efficient...
Thanks to the explosion of IoT we now have millions of devices, machines, products, and assets connected and streaming terabytes of data. But connecting to devices, ingesting and storing their sensor...
View ArticleFour trends powering healthcare AI, and what you can do about it
1. A tsunami of healthcare data Healthcare is drowning in data. An article by CIO.com outlines How CIOs Can Prepare for Healthcare ‘Data Tsunami.’ Digitization of healthcare information, EHR...
View ArticleMicrosoft 365 is the smartest place to store your content
In the modern workplace, rising expectations to innovate and improve productivity are putting pressure on employees to do more in less time. The world’s most successful organizations are addressing...
View ArticleWindows 10 SDK Preview Build 17744 available now!
Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 17744 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 17744 contains bug fixes and under...
View ArticleVideos from NYC R Conference
The videos from the NYC R conference have been published, and there are so many great talks there to explore. I highly recommend checking them out: you'll find a wealth of interesting R applications,...
View ArticleIntelligent Search: Video summarization using machine learning
Videos account for some of the richest and most delightful content on the web. But it can be difficult to tell which cat video is really going to make you LOL. That can be a frustrating and...
View ArticleImprovements on ASP.NET Core deployments on Zeit’s now.sh and making...
Back in March of 2017 I blogged about Zeit and their cool deployment system "now." Zeit will take any folder and deploy it to the web easily. Better yet if you have a Dockerfile in that folder as Zeit...
View ArticleAnnouncing general availability of Azure IoT Hub’s integration with Azure...
We’re proud to see more and more customers using Azure IoT Hub to control and manage billions of devices, send data to the cloud and gain business insights. We are excited to announce that IoT Hub...
View ArticleMicrosoft Azure, the cloud for high performance computing
Today, we continue to see customers leveraging Azure to push through new frontiers in high performance and accelerated computing. From Neuroiniative’s quest to accelerate drug discovery for Parkinson’s...
View Article2018 State of DevOps Report Now Available
The new State of DevOps Report is available, and it is a must-read. This is the best empirical analysis I have read of the practices that make organizations effective at software delivery. Here’s one...
View ArticleQ&A: How to specialize std::sort by binding the comparison function
This post is part of a regular series of posts where the C++ product team here at Microsoft and other guests answer questions we have received from customers. The questions can be about anything C++...
View ArticleJoin the Bing Maps APIs team at Microsoft Ignite 2018 in Orlando, Florida
The Bing Maps team will be at Microsoft Ignite 2018, in Orlando, Florida, September 24th through the 28th. If you are registered for the event, stop by the Bing Maps APIs for Enterprise booth in the...
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