We’re getting ready for Microsoft Ignite 2017!
Microsoft Ignite is happening next week in Orlando, and we are really excited to be there! Microsoft Ignite is a IT Professional and Developer conference that happens yearly, with over 700+ sessions,...
View ArticleThe Microsoft C++ team is at CppCon 2017
The Microsoft C++ team is at CppCon 2017. Take our survey, attend talks by our team members, and drop by our booth to say hello! Visual Studio team members are presenting in a great set of talks this...
View ArticleSpend less time CD’ing around directories with the PowerShell Z shortcut
Everyone has a trick for moving around their computer faster. It might be a favorite shell, a series of aliases or shortcuts. I like using popd and pushd to quickly go deep into a directory structure...
View ArticleIntroducing Dynamics 365 AI Solutions
“Solutions built from the ground up with AI and already serving over 650,000 sessions per week using AI.” Digital transformation has been reshaping our world and artificial intelligence (AI) is one of...
View ArticleFinding what you need at work just got easier with Bing for business
Today, at the Microsoft Ignite Conference in Orlando, we announced Bing for business - a new intelligent search experience for Office 365 and Microsoft 365, which uses AI and the Microsoft Graph to...
View ArticleTFS 2018 RC2 is available
Today we shipped the second release candidate for Team Foundation Server 2018. If all goes well, this should be the final release candidate. We’ll make sure that all the issues you report are...
View Article.NET Framework September 2017 Preview of Quality Rollup
Today, we are releasing the September 2017 Preview of Quality Rollup. This type of rollup is intended for businesses that want to the preview or use quality improvements as soon as they are available....
View ArticleNews Roundup from Microsoft Ignite
It's been a big day for the team here at Microsoft, with a flurry of announcements from the Ignite conference in Orlando. We'll provide more in-depth details in the coming days and weeks, but for now...
View ArticleGet insights into your Azure #CosmosDB: partition heatmaps, OMS, and more
Transparency is an important virtue of any cloud service. Azure Cosmos DB is the only cloud service that offers 99.99% SLAs on availability, throughput, consistency, and <10ms latency, and we...
View ArticleRun you Hive LLAP & PySpark Job in Visual Studio Code
If you’re interested in querying log file and gaining insights through Hive LLAP, please try HDInsight Tools for Visual Studio Code (VSCode). If you’re looking for data warehouse query experiences for...
View ArticlePayment Processing Blueprint for PCI DSS-compliant environments
Today we are pleased to announce the general availability of a new Payment Processing Blueprint for PCI DSS-compliant environments, the only auditor reviewed, 100% automated solution for Payment Card...
View ArticleAzure Networking announcements for Ignite 2017
Last year we committed to making it easier for customers to run their services in the public cloud. As we meet with customers from across the world a common concern voiced are the challenges of...
View ArticleAnnouncing new Azure VM sizes for more cost-effective database workloads
Our customers told us that their database workloads like SQL Server or Oracle often require high memory, storage, and I/O bandwidth, but not a high core count. Many database workloads they are running...
View ArticleLatest and Greatest in Visual Studio 2017 for C++ developers
Daniel Moth and Steve Carroll shared what’s new in VS 2017 and Updates for C++ developers at CppCon yesterday. You can grab the slides from the talk here. If you’re at the conference stop by our booth...
View ArticleBuild a web service with F# and .NET Core 2.0
Earlier this year, I wrote about an update to the roadmap for F# and .NET Core. I had mentioned that there were a number of things you could build with F# and .NET Core today, such as web services. In...
View ArticleVisual Studio and Xamarin take iOS support to 11
With the first wave of new iPhone 8 devices landing in people’s hands, and the installed base of iOS 11 users growing rapidly, it’s an exciting time to build apps for iPhone and iPad, as well as macOS...
View ArticleMeet the new Microsoft R Server: Microsoft ML Server 9.2
Microsoft R Server has received a new name and a major update: Microsoft ML Server 9.2 is now available. ML Server provides a scalable production platform for R — and now Python — programs. The basic...
View ArticleThe Book of the Runtime – The internals of the .NET Runtime that you...
The Microsoft Docs at https://docs.microsoft.com are really fantastic lately. All the .NET Docs are on GitHub https://github.com/dotnet/docs/ and you can contribute to them. However, in the world of...
View ArticleAnnouncing the public preview of Azure Storage metrics in Azure Monitor
Today, we are pleased to announce the availability of Azure Storage metrics in Azure Monitor. You can start working with these new metrics in the following regions: West US, West US 2, West Central US,...
View ArticleAzure Monitor: New services and capabilities for metrics
This blog post was co-authored by Vitaly Gorbenko, Senior Program Manager, Azure Monitor and Anirudh Cavale, Program Manager, Azure Monitor. Earlier this year we announced the general availability of...
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