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290 Cities of New Imagery in Canada, France, India, Italy, Japan and Spain
We are happy to announce the release of new satellite imagery covering 290 cities around the world in partnership with Airbus. The cities in this latest update are in Canada, France, India, Italy,...
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Episode 129 on Build announcements with engineering panel—Office 365...
In Episode 129 of the Office 365 Developer Podcast, Richard diZerega and Andrew Coates talk with a number of key Office extensibility engineers about Build conference announcements. The panel includes...
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Clean messy data by providing examples in Excel
While Excel isn't usually my tool of choice for manipulating or analyzing data (I prefer to use it as a data source for R), it has just learned a new trick that's likely to prove useful from time to...
View ArticleNew smaller Windows Server IaaS Image
We continue to find ways to make Azure a better value for our customers. Azure Managed Disks, a new disk service launched in Feb '17, simplifies the management and scaling of Virtual Machines (VM). You...
View ArticlePrice reductions on General Purpose Virtual Machines
We believe in providing the most innovative cloud offerings at incredibly competitive prices to our customers. As part of this promise, we regularly lower our prices as Azure continues to grow at scale...
View ArticleR/Finance 2017 livestreaming today and tomorrow
If you weren't able to make it to Chicago for R/Finance, the annual conference devoted to applications of R in the financial industry, don't fret: the entire conference is being livestreamed (with...
View ArticleAzureDSVM: a new R package for elastic use of the Azure Data Science Virtual...
by Le Zhang (Data Scientist, Microsoft) and Graham Williams (Director of Data Science, Microsoft) The Azure Data Science Virtual Machine (DSVM) is a curated VM which provides commonly-used tools and...
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Introducing XAML Standard and .NET Standard 2.0
XAML Standard We are pleased to announce XAML Standard, which is a standards-based effort to unify XAML dialects across XAML based technologies such as UWP and Xamarin.Forms. XAML Standard is a...
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Microsoft Edge at Build 2017
Last week, Microsoft welcomed thousands of developers from around the world to Build 2017, where we shared our vision for the future of dozens of products and services. Build featured a number of...
View ArticleUsing C++ Coroutines with Boost C++ Libraries
Last month, Jim Springfield wrote a great article on using C++ Coroutines with Libuv (a multi-platform C library for asynchronous I/O). This month we will look at how to use coroutines with components...
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New TypeScript Quick Starts and Updates from Build 2017
Last week Microsoft hosted its annual Build conference close to home in Seattle. Build is the single largest developer-focused conference that the company hosts, and draws a huge crowd from around the...
View ArticleThe history of the universe, in 20 minutes
Not content with merely documenting the history of Japan, Bill Wurtz is back with a history of the entire universe. It gets rather Earth-centric once it gets going, but I guess that was inevitable....
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Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension May 2017 Update
Earlier this month, the C/C++ extension for Visual Studio Code hit another exciting milestone – it has been installed over 1.5 million times since it first shipped in March last year! Thanks to...
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Improving the high-DPI experience in GDI based Desktop Apps
In recent years, High-DPI displays have become common. Having a lot more pixels to display your application on seems like a simple recipe for crisper graphics but, counterintuitively, the opposite is...
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Azure enables cutting edge Virtual Apps, Desktops and Workstations with...
Professional graphics users in every industry count on an immersive, photorealistic, responsive environment to imagine, design, and build everything from airplanes to animated films. Traditionally,...
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Using Open Source Components? Using TFS?
Back in March, I wrote about the WhiteSource Bolt extension for VSTS. This is a fantastic way to automate security checks for open source vulnerabilities in the release pipeline of your team project....
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Visual Studio Team Services demonstrates how Microsoft Loves Java
To demonstrate our continued commitment to support Java developers and their full lifecycle DevOps needs with Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS), I want to share some...
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Committing with Confidence: Getting Code Quality Information at Commit Time
Many developers tell us that they are under pressure to deliver software on an ever-faster cadence. This pressure for increased speed makes building your software at high quality from the start even...
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Earn more money by moving to the latest advertising libraries
Make sure your apps are updated to use the latest versions of the Microsoft Advertising SDK. The latest advertising SDK versions, which are MRAID 1.0 compliant, support richer creatives experiences....
View ArticlePreview of EARL San Francisco
The first ever EARL (Enterprise Applications of the R Language) conference in San Francisco will take place on June 5-7 (and it's not too late to register). Â The EARL conference series is now in its...
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