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Microsoft Releases 125 million Building Footprints in the US as Open Data
Bing has made very significant investments in the area of deep learning, computer vision and artificial intelligence to support a number of different search scenarios. The Bing Maps team has been...
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Should you learn R or Python for data science?
One of the most common questions I get asked is, "Should I learn R or Python?". My general response is: it's up to you! Both are popular open source data platforms with active, growing communities;...
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Migrating IoT Edge solutions to GA
On Wednesday, June 27, 2018, we announced the general availability of Azure IoT Edge. This release adds tons of new features for those already using public preview bits. Customers who have never used...
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Detecting that a .NET Core app is running in a Docker Container and...
I have moved my podcast site over to ASP.NET Core 2.1 and I've got it running in a Docker container. Take a moment a check out some of the blog posts, as I've been blogging as I've been learning. I've...
View ArticleTop Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.06.29
It’s another big week for DevOps stories — here’s some of the things that I found interesting: Hello, Pulumi Joe Duffy announces Pulumi, a new cloud development platform that lets you write code — real...
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New to Microsoft 365 in June—streamlining teamwork and security
This month, we introduced several new capabilities that streamline the management of common tasks and enhance identity-driven security measures to improve and protect the user experience in Microsoft...
View ArticlePublishing times for Microsoft Store just got faster!
Updating your Microsoft Store listing is the best way to let customers know more about your app or game. You might want to update the description to call out key features, or add new screenshots and...
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John Wiley & Sons reinvents its digital culture with the Microsoft Cloud
Today’s post was written by Pete Sattler, senior vice president and CIO at John Wiley & Sons. As we watch the physical book, magazine, and newsprint markets decline by double digits every year,...
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Changes to script debugging in Visual Studio 15.7
We’re always looking for ways to make developing with Visual Studio faster. One of the tasks developers do many times a day is launching debugging sessions. We identified that script debugging added...
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Announcing C++ Just My Code Stepping in Visual Studio
In Visual Studio 2017 release 15.8 Preview 3 we’re announcing support for Just My Code stepping for C++. In addition to previously supported callstack filtering, the Visual Studio debugger now also...
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Global Migration, animated with R
The animation below, by Shanghai University professor Guy Abel, shows migration within and between regions of the world from 1960 to 2015. The data and the methodology behind the chart is described in...
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Because it’s Friday: Wavy Lines Illusion
Another fine illusion: in this one, the pairs of horizontal lines are all smooth sine curves, despite the appearance of the jagged zig-zags: It's really hard for me at least to tell that the zig-zags...
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Migrating IoT Edge solutions to GA
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View ArticleAzure Search – Announcing the general availability of synonyms
Today we are announcing the general availability of synonyms. Synonyms allow Azure Search to associate equivalent terms that implicitly expand the scope of a query, without the user having to provide...
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Agile SAP development with SAP Cloud Platform on Azure
This blog post was co-authored by Mario Szpuszta, Principal Software Engineer, Azure CAT Recently we announced that SAP Cloud Platform is transitioning from Beta to general availability on Azure. SAP...
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Azure Event Hubs and Service Bus VNET Service Endpoints in public preview
This blog was co-authored by Anitha Adusumilli , Principal Program Manager, Azure Networking and Sumeet Mittal, Program Manager, Azure Networking. Azure Event Hubs, a highly reliable and easily...
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Enhanced Security Update for Bing Maps API Keys
As announced on May 24, the Bing Maps Developer portal shipped a new feature allowing you to restrict access on your Bing Maps API keys to a set of domains that you specify. Starting today, wildcard...
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Support for Unity (Jumbo) Files in Visual Studio 2017 15.8 (Experimental)
This post was written by Olga Arkhipova. Many big codebases use so-called unity (jumbo) builds where many source files are included in one or a few ‘unity’ files for compilation, which makes compiling...
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Network Performance Monitor is now generally available in UK South region
Network Performance Monitor (NPM) - a cloud-based network monitoring solution for cloud-only, on-premises, and hybrid networking environments, is now generally available in the UK South region....
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What’s new in Azure IoT Central
Azure IoT Central brings the simplicity of SaaS for IoT with built-in support for IoT best practices, and world class security and scalability with no cloud expertise required. We have been constantly...
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