New NVIDIA GPUs coming to Azure accelerate HPC and AI workloads
Machine Learning, AI, and HPC are changing the way every industry thinks, including retail, manufacturing, healthcare, oil and gas, and financial services. These large computations are changing product...
View ArticleCreating Work item form extensions in Visual Studio Team Services
Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and its on-prem version TFS has an extensibility framework that lets 3rd party developers write and publish their own extensions. A VSTS extension is just a set of...
View ArticleAd Monetization Tips: Maximizing your App Ad revenues for the holidays using...
Did you know that app developers make the most money from Advertising during the holiday season than at any other time of the year? Advertisers spend huge sums promoting their brands through Digital Ad...
View ArticleDevOps at Microsoft – lots of videos
My team is responsible for many of the engineering tools we use at Microsoft (affectionately called the One Engineering System or 1ES – paralleling Satya’s “One Microsoft” mantra). As part of that...
View ArticleUpdated curl package provides additional security for R on Windows
There are many R packages that connect to the internet, whether it's to import data (readr), install packages from Github (devtools), connect with cloud services (AzureML), or many other web-connected...
View ArticleTest batching options with VSTest task
Being able to run tests efficiently in a CI/CD pipeline is crucial to get a fast indication of build quality in order to quickly deliver customer value. For this, VSTest supports running automated...
View ArticleHPC containers with Azure Batch
With the latest updates to Azure Batch, you now have the option to schedule your tasks as Docker container invocations. Containers and Azure Batch are an ideal way to package, execute, and scale your...
View ArticleAzure Site Recovery powers TierPoint DRaaS
We are excited to announce that TierPoint, a Microsoft trusted partner, now offers Azure Site Recovery as a managed DR solution. TierPoint understands Azure Site Recovery at a deep level and creates...
View ArticleMicrosoft Store app and game submission deadlines for the holiday season
Every year the Microsoft Store sees an increase in the number of customers downloading and purchasing content during the holiday season. During the holiday months of 2016, the Microsoft Store saw more...
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An update for MRAN
MRAN, the Microsoft R Application Network has been migrated to a new high-performance, high-availability server, and we've taken the opportunity to make a few upgrades along the way. You shouldn't...
View ArticleDevOps @ Connect(); 2017
There is a lot of excitement and energy around DevOps at this year’s Connect(); event in New York City. Please join the live stream starting tomorrow at 10:00 AM EST for Scott Guthrie’s keynote, where...
View ArticleAzure receives HPCwire awards
Only a few years ago, most people thought it was impossible to complete mainstream, high-performance computing tasks in the cloud. Nowadays, we see complete workflows related to fields like fluid...
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This month on Bing: holiday shopping, photo contest, new sports and weather...
This month at Bing we shipped several new experiences that help you quickly find what you’re looking for. Holiday Shopping With the holidays upon us, we have new tools to make it easy for you to...
View ArticleVSTS is now a Symbol Server
As far back as 2012, Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server users have been asking for a Symbol Server. Symbols are crucial to debugging Windows applications, esp. applications written...
View ArticleAnnouncing “Azure DevOps Project” public preview
In today’s world, organizations need to innovate and get to market faster. That needs learning latest technologies, using them in your product and deploying at a faster pace with Continuous Delivery...
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The Latest in Developer Productivity and App Experiences
Whatever the language or platform, developers want the same thing – to create app experiences that are high-quality, intelligent and personalized. Experiences that delight users and keep them engaged....
View ArticleIntroducing the new CLI for VSTS
Today we are announcing a new cross-platform command line interface for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS). This new CLI, currently in preview, lets you manage and work...
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Side-by-side minor version MSVC toolsets in Visual Studio 2017
We’ve been delivering improvements to Visual Studio 2017 more frequently than ever before. Since its first release in March we’ve released four major updates to VS2017 and are currently previewing the...
View ArticleWelcome to C# 7.2 and Span
C# 7.2 is the latest point release of C#, and adds a number of small but useful features. All the features are described in wonderful detail in the docs. Start with the overview, What’s new in C# 7.2,...
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Keep Your Skills Up to Date: New Training and Azure Resources
Finding better ways to upskill is a consistent topic that comes up when we talk to you about what’s top of mind. It’s no wonder when the one constant in our industry is change with new techniques,...
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