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Game performance and compilation time improvements in Visual Studio 2019
The C++ compiler in Visual Studio 2019 includes several new optimizations and improvements geared towards increasing the performance of games and making game developers more productive by reducing the...
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Reducing security alert fatigue using machine learning in Azure Sentinel
Last week we launched Azure Sentinel, a cloud native SIEM tool. Machine learning (ML) in Azure Sentinel is built-in right from the beginning. We have thoughtfully designed the system with ML...
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Securely monitoring your Azure Database for PostgreSQL Query Store
A few months ago, I shared best practices for alerting on metrics with Azure Database for PostgreSQL. Though I was able to cover how to monitor certain key metrics on Azure Database for PostgreSQL, I...
View ArticleMicrosoft Teams wins Enterprise Connect Best in Show award and delivers new...
This week marks the second anniversary of the worldwide launch of Microsoft Teams, and the second year in a row winning the Enterprise Connect Best in Show award. Today, we are celebrating how our...
View ArticleVisual Studio Subscriptions – everything you need for Azure development
Recently, our product team has been talking with Visual Studio subscribers to learn more about how they approach cloud development. Many of the subscribers we spoke with mentioned that they were...
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March 2019 changes to Azure Monitor Availability Testing
Azure Monitor Availability Testing allows you to monitor the availability and responsiveness of any HTTP or HTTPS endpoint that is accessible from the public internet. You don't have to add anything to...
View Article.NET Framework March 2019 Update
Today, we released the March 2019 Update. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. CLR Addressed an issue where the Framework would throw an...
View ArticleMicrosoft Azure for the Gaming Industry
This blog post was co-authored by Patrick Mendenall, Principal Program Manager, Azure. We are excited to join the Game Developers Conference (GDC) this week to learn what’s new and share our work in...
View ArticleMicrosoft and NVIDIA bring GPU-accelerated machine learning to more developers
With ever-increasing data volume and latency requirements, GPUs have become an indispensable tool for doing machine learning (ML) at scale. This week, we are excited to announce two integrations that...
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The Value of IoT-Enabled Intelligent Manufacturing
As the manufacturing industry tackles some significant challenges including an aging workforce, compliance issues, and declining revenue, the Internet of Things (IoT) is helping reinvent factories and...
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Breaking the wall between data scientists and app developers with Azure DevOps
As data scientists, we are used to developing and training machine learning models in our favorite Python notebook or an integrated development environment (IDE), like Visual Studio Code (VSCode)....
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Azure Stack IaaS – part five
Self-service is core to Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). Back in the virtualization days, you had to wait for someone to create a VLAN for you, carve out a LUN, and find space on a host. If...
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Microsoft’s Azure Cosmos DB is named a leader in the Forrester Wave: Big Data...
We’re excited to announce that Forrester has named Microsoft as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Big Data NoSQL, Q1 2019 based on their evaluation of Azure Cosmos DB. We believe Forrester’s findings...
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Bing delivers text-to-speech and greater coverage of intelligent answers and...
At NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference this week, Bing demonstrated natural sounding text-to-speech AI, expanded intelligent answers, and the ability to quickly see multiple objects auto-detected within...
View ArticleUsing Newtonsoft.Json in a Visual Studio extension
The ever popular Newtonsoft.Json NuGet package by James Newton-King is used throughout Visual Studio’s code base. Visual Studio 2015 (14.0) was the first version to ship with it. Later updates to...
View ArticleWindows 10 SDK Preview Build 18356 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 18356 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 18356 contains bug fixes and under...
View ArticleLinker Throughput Improvement in Visual Studio 2019
In Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2 we made the compiler back-end to prune away debug information that is unrelated to code or data emitted into binary and changed certain hash implementations in the PDB...
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Windows Virtual Desktop now in public preview on Azure
We recently shared the public preview of the Windows Virtual Desktop service on Azure. Now customers can access the only service that delivers simplified management, multi-session Windows 10,...
View ArticleHelping IT reduce costs, increase security, and boost employee productivity
People are at the heart of any business. Employees need great software tools to do their best work. And IT pros need the best management and security solutions. Today, we’re announcing several new...
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