What’s new in Azure Media Services video processing
Developers and media companies trust and rely on Azure Media Services for the ability to encode, protect, index, and deliver videos at scale. This week we are proud to announce several enhancements to...
View ArticleVisual Studio Roadmap Updates and Visual Studio 2019 Information
Yesterday, we covered What’s next for Visual Studio for Mac, and today we’ve updated our Visual Studio Roadmap so you can see the latest news about what we’re working on. We’re particularly excited to...
View ArticleASP.NET Core 2.2.0-preview3 now available
Today we’re very happy to announce that the third preview of the next minor release of ASP.NET Core and .NET Core is now available for you to try out. We’ve been working hard on this release, along...
View ArticleASP.NET SignalR 2.4.0 Preview 2
We’ve just released the second preview of the upcoming 2.4.0 release of ASP.NET SignalR. As we mentioned in our previous blog post on the future of ASP.NET SignalR we are releasing a minor update to...
View ArticleAzure Availability Zones expand with new services and to new regions
Azure Availability Zones are physically separate locations within an Azure region protecting customers’ applications and data from datacenter-level failures. Earlier this year, we announced the general...
View ArticleAzure Marketplace new offers – Volume 22
We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. In September, 64 offers from Cognosys Inc. successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. Cognosys Inc. continues to be a leading...
View ArticleWhat they know now: Insights from top IoT leaders
This post was co-authored by Peter Cooper, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Azure IoT and Mark Pendergrast, Director of Product Marketing, Azure. The Internet of Things (IoT) market is red hot....
View ArticleExploring Clang Tooling Part 2: Examining the Clang AST with clang-query
This post is part of a regular series of posts where the C++ product team and other guests answer questions we have received from customers. The questions can be about anything C++ related: MSVC...
View ArticlePublic preview: Named Entity Recognition in the Cognitive Services Text...
Today, we are happy to announce the public preview of Named Entity Recognition as part of the Text Analytics Cognitive Service. Named Entity Recognition (NER) is the ability to take free-form text and...
View ArticleHow one artist brought her vision to life using Excel spreadsheets
Landscape architect by day, Microsoft Excel artist by night. Australia native Emma Stevens isn’t your average artist. She uses spreadsheets to create skyline imagery out of text. Inspired by the...
View ArticleComputer Vision for Model Assessment
One of the differences between statistical data scientists and machine learning engineers is that while the latter group are concerned primarily with the predictive performance of a model, the former...
View ArticleExpressRoute for Azure DevOps
Today we are excited to announce that Azure DevOps is now available over Azure ExpressRoute. Customers who typically operate in the government and financial services sectors have requested this support...
View ArticleCall For Participation: .NET and TypeScript at FOSDEM conference
The organizers of the FOSDEM 2019 conference have allocated a “Developer Room” on Saturday February 2nd 2019 for .NET and TypeScript discussions in Brussels Belgium. FOSDEM is one of Europe’s most...
View Article.NET Core Source Code Analysis with Intel® VTune™ Amplifier
This post was written by Varun Venkatesan, Li Tian, Denis Pravdin, who are engineers at Intel. They are excited to share .NET Core-specific enhancements that Intel has made to VTune Amplifier 2019. You...
View ArticleIoT device authentication options
Picking the right security for the job is a challenging issue. Obviously, everyone wants maximum security for IoT solutions. But issues such as hardware limitations, cost consciousness, lack of...
View Articlebingbot Series: Optimizing Crawl Frequency
Last week, we posted the first blog of our bingbot Series: Maximizing Crawl Efficiency highlighting the main goal for bingbot and its core metrics: Crawling Efficiency. In part 2 of our bingbot...
View ArticleWhen the numbers don’t tell the whole story
Anscombe's Quartet is a famous collection of four small data sets — just 11 (x,y) pairs each — that was developed in the 1970s to emphasize the fact that sometimes, numerical summaries of data aren't...
View ArticleBringing .NET application performance analysis to Linux
Both the Windows and Linux ecosystems have a swath of battle-hardened performance analysis and investigation tools. But up until recently, developers and platform engineers could use none of these...
View ArticleIt’s time to connect your products — here’s why
This post was co-authored by Peter Cooper, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Azure IoT and Mark Pendergrast, Director of Product Marketing, Azure. What are connected products? They’re not some science...
View ArticleTwo considerations for a serverless data streaming scenario
We recently published a blog on a fraud detection solution delivered to banking customers. At the core of the solution is the requirement to completely process a streaming pipeline of telemetry data in...
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