Intelligent Product Search and Recommendations for Fashion Retail
The ranking techniques used in Bing Ads can help fashion retailers display more relevant product ads in a cost-effective way which may also be more attractive for shoppers. By working with a prominent...
View ArticleIn case you missed it: December 2018 roundup
In case you missed them, here are some articles from December of particular interest to R users. R 3.5.2 is now available. Roundup of AI, Machine Learning and Data Science news from December 2018....
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Synthetic faces, styled to your specifications
If you need someone's face to use in an application or some marketing materials, you might search one of the stock photography vendors for people of a given gender, skin tone, hairstyle, etc. Or, you...
View ArticleAzure.Source – Volume 64
Updates Azure Migrate is now available in Azure Government The Azure Migrate service assesses on-premises workloads for migration to Azure. The service assesses the migration suitability of on-premises...
View ArticleTo infinity and beyond: The definitive guide to scaling 10k VMs on Azure
Every platform has limits, workstations and physical servers have resource boundaries, APIs may be rate-limited, and even the perceived endlessness of the virtual public cloud enforces limitations that...
View ArticleTeradata to Azure SQL Data Warehouse migration guide
With the increasing benefits of cloud-based data warehouses, there has been a surge in the number of customers migrating from their traditional on-premises data warehouses to the cloud. Microsoft Azure...
View ArticleCognitive Services Speech SDK 1.2 – December update – Python, Node.js/NPM and...
Developers can now access the latest improvements to Cognitive Services Speech Service including a new Python API and more. Details below. Read the updated Speech Services documentation to get started...
View ArticleGain insight into your Azure Cosmos DB data with QlikView and Qlik Sense
Connecting data from various sources in a unified view can produce valuable insights that are otherwise invisible to the human eye and brain. As Azure Cosmos DB allows for collecting the data from...
View ArticleRelationship Hacks: Playing video games and having hobbies while avoiding...
I'm going to try to finished my Relationship Hacks book in 2019. I've been sitting on it too long. I'm going to try to use blog posts to spur myself into action. A number of people asked me what...
View ArticleAzure DevOps Agents on Azure Container Instances (ACI)
This article provides a solution for running Azure DevOps agents (Build/Release agents) on Windows Server Core based containers, hosted on Azure Container Instances (ACI). A solution like this might be...
View ArticleNew Azure Migrate and Azure Site Recovery enhancements for cloud migration
We are continuously enhancing our offerings to help you in your digital transformation journey to the cloud. You can read more about these offerings in the blog, “Three reasons why Windows Server and...
View ArticleStreamlined development experience with Azure Blockchain Workbench 1.6.0
We’re happy to announce the release of Azure Blockchain Workbench 1.6.0. It includes new features such as application versioning, updated messaging, and streamlined smart contract development. You can...
View ArticleMulti-modal topic inferencing from videos
Any organization that has a large media archive struggles with the same challenge – how can we transform our media archives into business value? Media content management is hard, and so is content...
View ArticleAzureR packages now on CRAN
The suite of AzureR packages for interfacing with Azure services from R is now available on CRAN. If you missed the earlier announcements, this means you can now use the install.packages function in R...
View ArticleLOB ISV Engagement for Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform
Note: this post was originally posted here. Throughout my career I have had the opportunity to work with businesses, partners and public entities around the world to leverage Microsoft technologies...
View ArticleWindows 10 SDK Preview Build 18309 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 18309 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 18309 contains bug fixes and under...
View Article.NET Framework January 2019 Security and Quality Rollup
Today, we are releasing the January 2019 Security and Quality Rollup. Security CVE-2019-0545 – Windows Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability This security update resolves a vulnerability in Microsoft...
View Article.NET Core January 2019 Updates – 2.1.7 and 2.2.1
Today, we are releasing the .NET Core January 2019 Update. These updates contain security and reliability fixes. .NET Core 2.1.7 and .NET Core SDK 2.1.503 ( Download | Release Notes ) .NET Core 2.2.1...
View ArticleCES 2019—new commercial PCs and displays unveiled by Microsoft partners Dell,...
As our customers look to shift to a modern desktop, new PCs and displays from Dell, HP, and Lenovo—announced this week at CES 2019—help provide a productive, secure experience for users. The post CES...
View ArticleAnnouncing the general availability of Azure Data Box Disk
Since our preview announcement, hundreds of customers have been moving recurring workloads, media captures from automobiles, incremental transfers for ongoing backups, and archives from remote/office...
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