Because it’s Friday: Kite Ballet
With a tip 'o the hat to Buck, enjoy the acrobatics of these kites from a performance in Oregon in 2012, set to Bohemian Rhapsody. Even after watching it a few times I still don't get how the lines...
View ArticleAnnouncing the extension of Azure IP Advantage to Azure Stack
Azure IP Advantage now covers workloads deployed to Azure Stack. As customers rely on Azure Stack to enable hybrid cloud scenarios and extend the reach of Azure to their own data centers or in hosted...
View ArticleAzure Analysis Services now available in East US, West US 2, and more
Since being generally available in April 2017, Azure Analysis Services has quickly become the clear choice for enterprise organizations delivering corporate business intelligence (BI) in the cloud. The...
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Xamarin University Presents: Ship better apps with Visual Studio App Center
At Microsoft Connect(); last November, we announced the general availability of Visual Studio App Center to help (Obj-C, Swift, Java, React Native, and Xamarin) quickly build, test, deploy, monitor,...
View ArticleSpectre mitigations in MSVC
Microsoft is aware of a new publicly disclosed class of vulnerabilities, called “speculative execution side-channel attacks,” that affect many operating systems and modern processors, including...
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Azure Security Center adds support for custom security assessments
Azure Security Center monitors operating system (OS) configurations using a set of 150+ recommended rules for hardening the OS, including rules related to firewalls, auditing, password policies, and...
View ArticleCompatibility Level 140 is now the default for Azure SQL Database
Database Compatibility Level 140 is now the default for new databases created in Azure SQL Database across almost all regions. At this point in time, there are already 539,903 databases in Azure SQL...
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Accelerate your business revolution with IoT in Action
There’s a revolution underway that is positioning companies to take operational efficiency to new levels and inform the next generation of products and services. This revolution of course, is the...
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ADF v2: Visual Tools enabled in public preview
ADF v2 public preview was announced at Microsoft Ignite on Sep 25, 2017. With ADF v2, we added flexibility to ADF app model and enabled control flow constructs that now facilitates looping, branching,...
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How Azure Security Center helps analyze attacks using Investigation and Log...
Every second counts when you are under attack. Azure Security Center (ASC) uses advanced analytics and global threat intelligence to detect malicious threats, and the new capabilities empower you to...
View ArticleLast week in Azure: WAF integrates with Azure Security Center, and more
The first full work week of 2018 was a light week for new Azure functionality since everyone was returning from the holidays, but that won't last for long. Headlines #Azure #SQLDW, the cost benefits of...
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Vcpkg: Introducing the upgrade command
If you’re just getting started and want to learn more about vcpkg, check out our initial post. We recently added a new option to vcpkg (i.e. vcpkg contact –survey) to provide a direct way to share your...
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A simple way to set up a SparklyR cluster on Azure
The SparklyR package from RStudio provides a high-level interface to Spark from R. This means you can create R objects that point to data frames stored in the Spark cluster and apply some familiar R...
View ArticleWindows 10 SDK Preview Build 17069 now available
Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 17069 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 17069 contains bug fixes and under...
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Improvements to the DevTools Console in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update
We made significant improvements to the Microsoft Edge DevTools in EdgeHTML 16 with the Windows 10 Fall Creator’s Update, including new support for DOM mutation breakpoints and event and CSS inspection...
View ArticleAnnouncing TypeScript 2.7 RC
Today we’re publishing the Release Candidate of TypeScript 2.7. To get started with the RC, you can access it through NuGet, or use npm with the following command: npm install -g typescript@rc Visual...
View ArticleMicrosoft R Open 3.4.3 now available
Microsoft R Open (MRO), Microsoft's enhanced distribution of open source R, has been upgraded to version 3.4.3 and is now available for download for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This update upgrades the R...
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Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension Jan 2018 update
Today we are shipping the first update of the year to the Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension! This update includes IntelliSense and code navigation performance improvements and a CPU Usage setting for...
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Announcing IoT extension for Azure CLI 2.0
We recently released a new open source IoT extension that adds to the capabilities of Azure CLI 2.0. Azure CLI 2.0 includes commands for interacting with Azure Resource Manager and management...
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December 2017 Leaderboard of Database Systems contributors on MSDN
Congratulations to our December top 10 contributors! Alberto Morillo and Visakh Murukesan maintain their top positions. This Leaderboard initiative was started in October 2016 to recognize the top...
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