The Evolving Infrastructure of .NET Core
With .NET Core 3.0 Preview 6 out the door, we thought it would be useful to take a brief look at the history of our infrastructure systems and the significant improvements that have been made in the...
View ArticleWindows 10 SDK Preview Build 18917 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 18917 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 18917 contains bug fixes and under...
View Article.NET Framework June 2019 Preview of Quality Rollup
Today, we are releasing the June 2019 Preview of Quality Rollup. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. WPF1 Addresses an issue in which...
View ArticleFirst Microsoft cloud regions in Middle East now available
This blog post was co-authored by Paul Lorimer, Distinguished Engineer, Office 365. Azure and Office 365 generally available today, Dynamics 365 and Power Platform available by end of 2019 Today,...
View ArticleLink unfurling (preview) in Azure Pipelines app for Slack
Lots of conversations in Slack start with links. With the new release of the Azure Pipelines app for Slack, pasting a URL to a build or release in Azure Pipelines now shows a rich preview of the...
View ArticleVirtual machine scale set insights from Azure Monitor
In October 2018 we announced the public preview of Azure Monitor for Virtual Machines (VMs). At that time, we included support for monitoring your virtual machine scale sets from the at scale view...
View ArticleAnnouncing availability of Microsoft cloud datacenter regions in the Middle East
Microsoft Azure and Office 365 are now generally available from new cloud regions in the United Arab Emirates, with Dynamics 365 and Power Platform to follow. The post Announcing availability of...
View ArticleAzureVM update: flexible and powerful deployment and management of VMs in Azure
by Hong Ooi, senior data scientist, Microsoft Azure I'm happy to announce version 2.0 of AzureVM, a package for deploying and managing virtual machines in Azure. This is a complete rewrite of the...
View ArticleIntroducing Microsoft Edge preview builds for Windows 7, Windows 8, and...
Today we are excited to make preview builds from the Microsoft Edge Canary channel available on Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. This rounds out the initial set of platforms that we began to roll...
View ArticleIntroducing next generation reading with Immersive Reader, a new Azure...
This blog post was authored by Tina Coll, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Azure Marketing. Today, we’re unveiling the preview of Immersive Reader, a new Azure Cognitive Service in the Language...
View ArticleAzure HC-series Virtual Machines crosses 20,000 cores for HPC workloads
New HPC-targeted cloud virtual machines Azure HC-series Virtual Machines are now generally available in the West US 2 and East US regions. HC-series virtual machines (VMs) are optimized for the most...
View ArticleGartner names Microsoft a leader in 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for...
Microsoft accelerates application development with Azure Integration Services Personal computers revolutionized the way work was done. New software unlocked unprecedented levels of productivity, and...
View ArticleForwarded Headers Middleware Updates in .NET Core 3.0 preview 6
With the ASP.NET Core 2.1 release, we included UseHsts and UseHttpRedirection by default. These methods put a site into an infinite loop if deployed to an Azure Linux App Service, Azure Linux virtual...
View ArticleCreate interactive documentation with the new Try .NET template
In our previous post, we announced dotnet try a global tool which allows developers to create interactive workshops and documentation. Tutorials created with dotnet try let users start learning...
View ArticleMicrosoft positioned as a leader in the Forrester WaveTM: Database-as-a-service
We’re excited to share that Forrester has named Microsoft as a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Database-as-a-service, Q2 2019. This decision is based on their evaluation of Azure relational and...
View ArticleNew to Azure? Follow these easy steps to get started
Today, many organizations are leveraging digital transformation to deliver their applications and services in the cloud. At Microsoft Build 2019, we announced the general availability of Azure...
View ArticleAzure Security Expert Series: Learn best practices and Customer Lockbox...
With more computing environments moving to the cloud, the need for stronger cloud security has never been greater. But what constitutes effective cloud security, and what best practices should you be...
View ArticleHelp us shape the future of .NET for Apache Spark
Apache Spark is a general-purpose distributed processing engine for analytics over large data set typically terabytes or petabytes of data. Apache Spark can be used for processing batches of data,...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s MT-DNN Achieves Human Performance Estimate on General Language...
Understanding natural language is one of the longest running goals of AI, which can trace back to 1950s when the Turing test defines an “intelligent” machine. In recent years, we have observed...
View ArticleTop Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.06.21
I’m at NDC Oslo and it’s summer solstice. So today’s the longest day of the year, and up here that makes for a really long day. But that’s good news for me, it gives me more time to catch up on the...
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