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A history-oriented introduction to R for Excel users
While spreadsheets are fine tools for collecting and sharing data, the temptation is often there to also use them for in-depth analysis better suited to reproducible systems like R. Historian Jesse...
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Start exploring Bing Search APIs in under 5 minutes
Building functionality that leverages billions of webpages, images, videos, news, and entities may sound complex and time consuming, but the Bing APIs make it simpler and easier for you to create your...
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Introducing query replica scale-out for Azure Analysis Services
Today at the SQL PASS Summit, Microsoft announced the scale out feature for Azure Analysis Services. With scale-out, client queries can be distributed among multiple query replicas in a query pool,...
View ArticleTeam Foundation Server 2017 Update 3 available
Today we released the final build of TFS 2017 Update 3. This release follows the release candidate and addresses all the customer feedback we have gotten and all the issues we have found in extensive...
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Device provisioning: Identity attestation with TPM
Folks using the IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service to securely provision their devices are taking the opportunity to start using hardware security modules (HSM) to store the keys on their devices....
View ArticleIn case you missed it: October 2017 roundup
In case you missed them, here are some articles from October of particular interest to R users. A recent survey of competitors on the Kaggle platform reveals that Python (76%) and R (59%) are the...
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Microsoft’s Project Olympus delivers cloud hardware innovation at scale
Just over a year ago at Zettastructure, the European digital infrastructure conference hosted by Datacenter Dynamics, we introduced Microsoft’s Project Olympus – our next generation hyperscale cloud...
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General availability of App Service and Functions on Azure Stack
We’re pleased to share that Azure App Service and Functions are now generally available on Azure Stack. This release brings the power of Azure App Service and Azure Functions on-premises and offers...
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WebOptimizer – a Bundler and Minifier for ASP.NET Core
ASP.NET Core didn't have a runtime bundler like previous versions of ASP.NET. This was a bummer as I was a fan. Fortunately Mads Kristensen created one and put it on GitHub, called WebOptimizer....
View ArticleDevice provisioning: A manufacturing timeline for TPM devices
A lot of folks using the IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service are starting to use hardware security modules (HSMs) in their devices because of how easy it is to use an HSM with the provisioning service....
View ArticleWhy Microsoft offers uncapped indemnification for open source in Azure
This post was authored by Jim Ross, Assistant General Counsel, Intellectual Property Group, Patent Conflicts and Indemnities Team One of the most frequent questions our customers ask us is how they can...
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Monitoring of Azure ExpressRoute in preview
We are happy to announce the preview of ExpressRoute monitoring using Network Performance Monitor (NPM). With NPM, you can now monitor end-to-end connectivity and performance between your branch...
View ArticleMonitoring Team Foundation Server 2018
Monitoring on-premises Team Foundation Server deployments is an important part of keeping them running smoothly, especially for large enterprise deployments. Good monitoring can help administrators...
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Lightweight bundling, minifying, and compression, for CSS and JavaScript with...
Yesterday I blogged about WebOptimizer, a minifier that Mads Kristensen wrote for ASP.NET Core. A few people mentioned that Shannon Deminick also had a great minifier for ASP.NET Core. Shannon has a...
View ArticleVisual Studio Team Services is in East Asia!
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...
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Calculating the house edge of a slot machine, with R
Modern slot machines (fruit machine, pokies, or whatever those electronic gambling devices are called in your part of the world) are designed to be addictive. They're also usually quite complicated,...
View ArticleSet both x86 and x64 registry views for custom setup policy
I previously blogged about the documentation to move the Visual Studio 2017 package cache by changing the CachePath policy. Originally this was done only with changes under the...
View ArticleCompleted UserVoice Suggestions in Visual Studio for C++ developers
If you regularly follow our blog, you may have noticed that our posts encourage you to submit your suggestions on how to improve Visual Studio in UserVoice. We spend a lot of time reviewing your...
View ArticleJoin Microsoft at Supercomputing 17
We’re excited for the Supercomputing conference next week in Denver, Colorado. Supercomputing is where researchers and practitioners from around the world come together to advance the state of...
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New offers in Azure Marketplace – October 2017
The Azure Marketplace continues to grow rapidly. We added 38 great new offers in October. Check them out! Puppet Enterprise 2017.2: Puppet Enterprise lets you automate the entire lifecycle of your...
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