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Azure #HDInsight Interactive Query: simplifying big data analytics architecture
Fast Interactive BI, data security and end user adoption are three critical challenges for successful big data analytics implementations. Without right architecture and tools, many big data and...
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Save with the Unity Pro & Visual Studio Professional Bundle
The combination of Visual Studio and Unity provides a top-notch experience for game development across a variety of platforms and devices. While we offer no cost software for those just starting out,...
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Make R speak
Every wanted to make R talk to you? Now you can, with the mscstts package by John Muschelli. It provides an interface to the Microsoft Cognitive Services Text-to-Speech API (hence the name) in Azure,...
View ArticleWindows 10 SDK Preview Build 17733 available now!
Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 17733 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 17733 contains bug fixes and under...
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Upgrading an existing .NET project files to the lean new CSPROJ format from...
If you've looked at csproj (C# (csharp) projects) in the past in a text editor you probably looked away quickly. They are effectively MSBuild files that orchestrate the build process. Phrased...
View ArticleAI, Machine Learning and Data Science Roundup: August 2018
A monthly roundup of news about Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science. This is an eclectic collection of interesting blog posts, software announcements and data applications I've...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: A Titanic Brexit
Boris Johnson once declared that Britain leaving the European Union would be a "Titanic success". More than a year ago Comedy Central UK imagined what such a success would look like, and the prospects...
View ArticleTop Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.08.17
Another Friday means another happy hour! No, not the time when I hit the bar after work — the time when I catch up on the news around DevOps for VSTS and Azure. Here’s what I’ve been reading (and, this...
View ArticleA Microsoft DevSecOps Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Exercise
A Microsoft DevSecOps Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Exercise Static Application Security Testing (SAST) is a critical DevSecOps practice. As engineering organizations accelerate continuous...
View ArticleMigrate Windows Server 2008 to Azure with Azure Site Recovery
For close to 10 years now, Windows Server 2008/2008 R2 has been a trusted and preferred server platform for our customers. With millions of instances deployed worldwide, our customers run many of their...
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Azure Block Blob Storage Backup
Azure Blob Storage is Microsoft's massively scalable cloud object store. Blob Storage is ideal for storing any unstructured data such as images, documents and other file types. Read this Introduction...
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Driving industry transformation with Azure – Getting started – Edition 1
Microsoft is highly focused on solving industry challenges, creating new opportunities and driving digital transformation for all organizations. Through dedicated industry resources from Microsoft and...
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Multi-member consortium support with Azure Blockchain Workbench 1.3.0
Continuing our monthly release cadence for Azure Blockchain Workbench, we’re excited to announce the availability of version 1.3.0. You can either deploy a new instance of Workbench through the Azure...
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Hardening the security of Azure IoT Edge
Azure IoT Edge which recently became generally available, designs in security from the ground up with avenues for custom security hardening. Security hardening entails additional security measures for...
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Azure.Source – Volume 45
Now generally available Announcing VNet service endpoints general availability for MySQL and PostgreSQL - Virtual network service endpoints for Azure Database for MySQL and PostgreSQL in all regions...
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Bing.com runs on .NET Core 2.1!
Bing.com is a cloud service that runs on thousands of servers spanning many datacenters across the globe. Bing servers handle thousands of users’ queries every second from consumers around the world...
View ArticleImportant dates regarding apps with Windows Phone 8.x and earlier and Windows...
As a part of our Windows device life cycle, Microsoft Store will soon stop accepting new apps with Windows Phone 8.x or earlier or Windows 8/8.1 packages (XAP and APPX). Soon after that date, we will...
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Visual Studio for Mac version 7.6
Today we are announcing the release of Visual Studio for Mac version 7.6. Our focus with this release has been to improve product reliability in various areas, with a special focus on the code editing...
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Azure Marketplace consulting offers: May
We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. In May, 26 consulting offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: App Migration to Azure...
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DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) for Linux VMs now generally available
Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) in an Azure Linux Virtual Machine (VM) that offers a fast user space packet processing framework for performance intensive applications that bypass the VM’s kernel...
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