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Making search conversational: Finding and chatting with bots on Bing
We believe the future of search will be more conversational, instead of the traditional query to document approach that searchers have become accustomed to. While having a conversation with your search...
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Migrating to Azure Data Sync 2.0
We’ve made improvements to SQL Data Sync including PowerShell programmability, better security and resilience, enhanced monitoring and troubleshooting, and availability in more regions. As part of...
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Windows Store: more options to manage, monetize and promote apps
At Build 2017 last week, the Windows Store announced new capabilities to reach more customers, improve your productivity and promote and monetize your apps and games, including: Offering your games to...
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Enhancements to Application Insights Smart Detection
We’re happy to introduce two enhancements to Smart Detection in Application Insights, which automatically notifies you if your live web app shows performance issues. You will now get an automatic...
View ArticleThe best public cloud for SAP workloads gets more powerful
More and more enterprise customers are realizing the benefits of moving their core business applications to the cloud. Many have moved beyond the conversation of “why cloud” to “which cloud provider.”...
View ArticleGeneral Availability: Azure Search parses JSON Blobs
Today, we are happy to announce general availability for JSON parsing with Azure Search’s Blob Storage indexer. Azure Search has long supported indexers for a variety of data sources on Azure: Document...
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Accelerated Continuous Testing with Test Impact Analysis – Part 2
The previous post introduced how – for a given code commit – TIA will select and run only the relevant tests required to validate that commit. Thus, without sacrificing quality, both the testrun and...
View ArticleUpgrade classic Backup and Site Recovery vaults to ARM Recovery Services vaults
Today, we are pleased to offer seamless upgrade of classic Backup or Site Recovery vaults to ARM based Recovery Services vaults. Last May 2016, we announced the General Availability of Recovery...
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Project Rome: Driving user engagement across devices, apps and platforms
Overview Recently there has been a dramatic shift in the way users use their devices. Rather than substituting new devices, users are using additional form factors like phones and tablets, alongside...
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New in Yammer—building a more connected and engaged organization
Yammer empowers every person in your company with an open space to connect, share and work out loud. With 70 percent annual growth in active groups, there’s greater momentum in Yammer than ever before....
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SharePoint Virtual Summit showcases growth, innovations and customer success
Today’s post was written by Jeff Teper, corporate vice president for OneDrive, SharePoint and Office. Today, during the SharePoint Virtual Summit, we unveiled the latest innovations for SharePoint and...
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New SharePoint and OneDrive capabilities accelerate your digital transformation
Today, during the SharePoint Virtual Summit, we unveiled a new wave of innovations that build upon the vision we set forth last year to reinvent content collaboration and usher in a new generation of...
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Optimize content delivery for your scenario with Azure CDN
When delivering content to a large global audience, it is critical to ensure optimized delivery of your content. This new capability is targeted to accelerate and optimize performance based on the...
View ArticleNew Azure Quickstart template – Cloudera CDH and Tableau Server by Slalom
Developers and IT-Pros usually start their Cloud journey by installing software on virtual machines. While this makes it easy to create running Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), it requires...
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The week in .NET – Microsoft Build 2017, .NET Core 2.0 preview 1, For the King
Previous posts: Microsoft Build 2017, .NET Core 2.0 status, Happy birthday .NET with Eilon Lipton, On .NET with Alfonso García-Caro on Fable, Stanford CoreNLP .NET Architecture, .NET Core 2.0 status,...
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Announcing Project Rome iOS SDK
Project Rome is a platform for enabling seamless cross-device and cross-platform experiences. The philosophy behind Project Rome is simple. App experiences shouldn’t be tied to a single device any more...
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Announcing Windows Template Studio
Today, we are pleased to announce the next evolution in your File → New Universal Windows Platform app in Visual Studio – Windows Template Studio. Windows Template Studio addresses a top community ask...
View ArticleR in Financial Services: Challenges and Opportunities
At the New York R Conference earlier this year, my colleague Lixun Zhang gave a presentation on the challenges and opportunites financial services companies encounter when using R. In the talk, he...
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Azure #CosmosDB: Introducing Per Minute (RU/m) provisioning to lower your...
Last week at our annual Build conference, we’ve announced Azure Cosmos DB – our globally-distributed, multi-model database service and a set of new capabilities to enable developers to build apps that...
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Dear DocumentDB customers, welcome to Azure Cosmos DB!
Dear DocumentDB customers, We are very excited that you are now a part of the Azure Cosmos DB family! Azure Cosmos DB, announced at the Microsoft Build 2017 conference, is the first globally...
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