Microsoft announces Project Olympus support for new Intel Xeon Scalable...
In March at the Open Compute Project (OCP) annual summit, we announced that Project Olympus, our next generation hyperscale cloud hardware design, attracted the latest in silicon innovation to address...
View ArticleEnterprise Cloud Strategy, 2nd Edition
A roadmap to becoming a cloud-centric company I’m delighted to announce the second edition of our free e-book, Enterprise Cloud Strategy, written by Barry Briggs and myself. Get your copy of the...
View ArticlePublic Preview of compatibility level 140 for Azure SQL databases
We are announcing the official public preview of compatibility level 140 in Azure SQL Database. Compatibility level 140 enables the following query optimizer changes: A trivial plan referencing...
View ArticleJune 2017 Leaderboard of Database Systems contributors on MSDN
Congratulations to our June top-10 contributors! This Leaderboard initiative was started in October 2016 to recognize the top Database Systems contributors on MSDN forums. The following continues to be...
View ArticleMicrosoft Visual Studio 2017 Supports Intel® AVX-512
For this post we welcome John Morgan from Intel Corporation as guest author on the Visual Studio Blog. John has been with Intel for nine years, but his contributions to the Microsoft compiler stretch...
View ArticleSamsung Releases 4th Preview of Visual Studio Tools for Tizen including...
Samsung has released the fourth preview of Visual Studio Tools for Tizen. Tizen is a Linux-based open source OS running on over 50 million Samsung devices including TVs, wearables, and mobile phones....
View ArticleTake the R Consortium survey on R
Since its foundation just a little over two years ago, the R Consortium has been dedicated to providing support to the R Project and the R community. Already, the R Consortium has channeled the...
View ArticleADAL .NET 3.14.1 released
ADAL.NET, delivered as a nuget package named Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory, is an authentication library which enables developers to acquire tokens from Azure AD (Active Directory)...
View ArticleThe week in .NET – Links!
This week’s post will exceptionally be made of links only, as I’m on vacation… Previous posts: Links! .NET Conf, Material Design in XAML Toolkit .NET Architecture: Microservices & Containers, On...
View Article.NET Framework July 2017 Security and Quality Rollup
Today, we are releasing a new Security and Quality Rollup and Security Only Update for the .NET Framework. Today’s update applies to Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016. Security Microsoft Common...
View ArticleWhat’s brewing in Visual Studio Team Services: July 2017 Digest
This post series provides the latest updates and news for Visual Studio Team Services and is a great way for Azure users to keep up-to-date with new features being released every three weeks. Visual...
View ArticleMicrosoft Cognitive Services updates – Bing Entity Search API and...
This blog post was authored by the Microsoft Cognitive Services Team. Microsoft Cognitive Services enables developers to augment the next generation of applications with the ability to see, hear,...
View ArticleAzure Container Registry adds individual identity, webhooks, and delete...
The Azure Container Registry team is excited to share a preview of new Container Registry SKUs with more capabilities and features. The new preview of Azure Container Registry managed tier is available...
View ArticleService Fabric Community Q&A 14th Edition
We will host our 14th monthly community Q&A call Thursday, July 20th at 10 AM Pacific Time. The Service Fabric Community Q&A is hosted on the third Thursday of every month by the Azure Service...
View ArticleBring rich knowledge of people, places, things and local businesses to your apps
Today we are excited to announce the availability of Bing Entity Search API, a new Microsoft Cognitive Service in Free Preview. While in Preview, it will be available within the United States. Bing...
View ArticleCalling all game devs: The Dream.Build.Play 2017 Challenge is Here!
Dream.Build.Play is back! The long-running indie game development contest was on hiatus for a few years, so it’s high time for it to make a resounding return. The Dream.Build.Play 2017 Challenge is the...
View ArticleData Science Accelerator for Credit Risk Prediction
by Fang Zhou, Data Scientist; Graham Williams, Director of Data Science, all at Microsoft Credit Risk Scoring is a classic but increasingly important operation in banking as banks are becoming far more...
View ArticleAnnouncing Babylon.js 3.0
Babylon.js is an open source framework that allows you to create stunning 3D experiences in your browser. Built with simplicity and performance in mind, it is the engine that fuels the Remix3D site or...
View ArticleWindows 10 SDK Preview Build 16232 Released
Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 16232 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 16232 contains bug fixes and under...
View ArticleMesosphere DCOS, Azure, Docker, VMware & Everything Between – Deploying...
This post is part of the “Mesosphere DC/OS, Azure, Docker, VMware & Everything Between” multiple blog post series. In the previous posta for this series, I looked at the following topics:...
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