Adobe XD CC: A New High-Performance UWP App for UI/UX Design
It’s a big day today – after a year of public preview, Adobe released Adobe XD 1.0 on Windows 10 and Mac: a new tool for user experience creators to design, prototype and share interactive designs for...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2017 Update 4 makes it easy to modernize your desktop...
Last year with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, we introduced the Desktop Bridge to provide desktop applications a path to modernize with the Universal Windows Platform, and to distribute via the...
View ArticleMeet the Azure Analysis Services team at PASS Summit 2017
Members from the Azure Analysis Services team will be presenting two sessions at this years PASS Summit 2017 in Seattle, WA. Members will also be available in the SQL Clinic to directly answer your...
View ArticleUpdates on Intel Xeon Scalable Processors for Microsoft Azure Stack
Today we are announcing the validation of Azure Stack systems with the new family of Intel Xeon Scalable Processors, also known as “Purley”. With Azure Stack running on Intel Xeon Scalable Processors,...
View ArticleAzure Service Bus and Azure Event Hubs Geo-disaster recovery preview released
Two long-standing, well-known and appreciated Azure core services, Azure Service Bus and Azure Event Hubs, just released a preview of an upcoming generally available Geo-disaster recovery feature. With...
View ArticleWindows Server, version 1709 is now available on Azure
What a great day! Back in June, we announced Windows Server was joining the Semi-Annual Channel release cadence to deliver innovation at a faster pace. Two weeks ago at Ignite, we announced Windows...
View ArticleExperiment with Azure for FREE!
What is Azure? What can it do for me? Do I need it? How do I find out? How do I use it? Will it help my business? Can it help my career? With all the things Azure can do, it’s hard to know where to...
View ArticleAzure Data Factory V2: visual monitoring added to public preview
We are excited to announce the addition of visual monitoring capabilities for Azure Data Factory V2 (ADF v2) to our customers. With this release, you can easily monitor the data factory v2 pipelines...
View ArticleVisual Studio Team Services notifications in Visual Studio IDE
In our earlier post “Continuous Delivery Tools Extension for Visual Studio 2017” , we introduced failure notifications for a single tracked Continuous Integration (CI) build on Visual Studio Team...
View ArticleThe R manuals in bookdown format
While there are hundreds of excellent books and websites devoted to R, the canonical source of truth regarding the R system remains the R manuals. You can find the manuals at your local CRAN mirror and...
View ArticleTop stories from the VSTS community – 2017.10.20
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES Continuous Deployment of Cloud Services with VSTS – Oren NovotnyIn my last...
View ArticleAn Updated History of R
Here's a refresher on the history of the R project: 1992: R development begins as a research project in Auckland, NZ by Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka 1993: First binary versions of R published at...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: 30 days on a cargo ship
This time-lapse taken during a cargo ship's 30-day voyage from the Red Sea to Hong Kong is strangely hypnotic (via Kottke). In addition to the beautiful scenery, it also makes you appreciate the...
View ArticleVisual Studio Code C/C++ extension October 2017 update
Yesterday we shipped the October 2017 update of the Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension. Following the lightbulb suggestions for IntelliSense include path feature that was shipped last month, we’re...
View ArticleCray Supercomputers are coming to Azure
I’m thrilled to share our new, exclusive partnership with Cray that will provide our customers unprecedented access to supercomputing capabilities in Azure to solve their toughest challenges in climate...
View ArticleFv2 VMs are now available, the fastest VMs on Azure
Today, I’m excited to announce the general availability of our new Fv2 VM family. Azure now offers the fastest Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor, code-named Skylake, in the public cloud. In Azure, we...
View ArticleTransactional replication to Azure SQL Database is now generally available
We are excited to announce that transactional replication to Azure SQL Database is now generally available (GA). This feature allows you to migrate your on-premises SQL Server databases to Azure SQL...
View ArticleLast week in Azure: Cloud Service Map, Azure Red Shirt Dev Tour, & more
Here are the five things to know from last week in Azure: 1. Translating AWS to Azure with the Cloud Service Map "And you know what they call a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris?" One of the...
View ArticleTruffle 4.0 beta 2 now available on Azure
Truffle has created a toolset used by developers building decentralized applications on the Ethereum blockchain. While other tools exist, Truffle focuses on the developer experience and the unique...
View Article.NET Core Performance Profiling with Intel® VTune™ Amplifier 2018
This post was written by Varun Venkatesan, Li Tian, and Juan Rodriguez, engineers at Intel. They are excited to share .NET Core-specific enhancements that Intel has made to VTune Amplifier 2018. We’re...
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