Simplifying OPC UA security for everyone
At the IoT Expo in Taipei, we were excited to announce our contribution of an open-source, cross-platform OPC UA Global Discovery Server (GDS) to the OPC Foundation. As we have done with our UA-.Net...
View ArticleJoin us at Ignite 2017 to hear about our new releases
We’ll be at Microsoft Ignite 2017! As part of Cognitive Services, we have a suite of technology and APIs that will power your intelligent app ready to share with you. See the new and soon to be...
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7 More Lesser-known Debugging Tactics for Visual Studio
So, you really liked learning about 7 Lesser Known Debugging Hacks for Visual Studio? Good news is that there is always more to learn! The Visual Studio debugger is an enchanting creature that can save...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Windows Premium Ads Publishers Program
As part of our continuous efforts to help Windows developers monetize better through ads, we are very excited to announce the launch of the Windows Premium Ads Publishers Program – a curated collection...
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VSTS Update – Sept 15
This week we are deploying our sprint 123 work. Check out the release notes. There are a few things I want to highlight… New queries hub – We are on a journey to rework how some key elements of our...
View ArticleVisual Studio Team Services is in Canada!
In 2014, we set a goal to make Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) a global service. This is driven by our commitment to provide our customers around the world great performance and compliance with...
View ArticleRecap: Applications of R at EARL London 2017
The fourth EARL London conference took place last week, and once again it was an enjoyable and informative showcase of practical applications of R. Kudos to the team from Mango for hosting a great...
View ArticleVSTS in Canada
Today we launched our latest Visual Studio Team Services instance in the Canada Central region. This adds to our instances in the United States, Europe, Brazil, Australia, and India. I’ve had numerous...
View ArticleInstalling Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017 in a Docker container
Docker containers are a lightweight alternative to full virtual machines that abstract the file system of the host operating system but are otherwise isolated. While popular for service deployments as...
View ArticleExtending Microsoft Azure IP Advantage to China
This blog post was authored by Erich Andersen, Corporate Vice President and Chief IP Counsel, Microsoft Intellectual Property. Cloud-fueled digital transformation enables companies around the world to...
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More and more fun with Terraform on Azure
Just one month ago, we announced our increased investment in Terraform. It is amazing to see the progress we have already made together with HashiCorp and the Terraform community. In the last month...
View ArticleHurricane Irma’s rains, visualized with R
The USGS has followed up their visualization of Hurricane Harvey rainfalls with an updated version of the animation, this time showing the rain and flooding from Hurricane Irma in Florida: Another...
View ArticleWatch .NET Conf 2017!
.NET Conf starts today. It’s a three-day, free, virtual and global .NET conference. All you need to do is point your web browser to channel9.msdn.com, starting at 8AM Pacific Time. We have a packed...
View ArticleAzure HDInsight training resources – Learn about big data using open source...
Azure HDInsight is the only fully-managed cloud Hadoop & Spark offering that gives you optimized open-source analytic clusters for Spark, Hive, MapReduce, HBase, Storm, Kafka, and Microsoft R...
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Object Detection for Visual Search in Bing
In one of the recent blog entries we talked about how Bing Visual Search lets users search for images similar to an individual object manually marked in a given image (e.g. search for a purse shown in...
View ArticleWindows 10 SDK Preview Build 16288 and Mobile Emulator Build 15240 Released
Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK and the Mobile Emulator to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 16288 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 16288...
View ArticleTFS 2017 Update 3 RC is available
Today we released the Release Candidate for Team Foundation Server 2017 Update 3. Following the pattern of all of our Update 3 releases, TFS 2017 Update 3 is a small release, focused on bug fixes –...
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Servicing Azure Stack using the Update resource provider
In today’s world, security is paramount. Microsoft is committed to ensuring your Azure Stack environment stays both secure and functional – as it delivers consistency to build and deploy applications...
View ArticleAnnouncing larger, higher scale storage accounts
One of the fastest areas of growth in cloud computing is around data storage. With a variety of workloads such as IoT telemetry, logging, media, genomics and archival driving cloud data growth, the...
View ArticlePreview: ALTREP promises to bring major performance improvements to R
Changes are coming to the internals of the R engine which promise to improve performance and reduce memory use, with dramatic impacts in some circumstances. The changes were first proposed at the DSC...
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