Microsoft Azure for the Gaming Industry
This blog post was co-authored by Patrick Mendenall, Principal Program Manager, Azure. We are excited to join the Game Developers Conference (GDC) this week to learn what’s new and share our work in...
View ArticleMicrosoft and NVIDIA bring GPU-accelerated machine learning to more developers
With ever-increasing data volume and latency requirements, GPUs have become an indispensable tool for doing machine learning (ML) at scale. This week, we are excited to announce two integrations that...
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The Value of IoT-Enabled Intelligent Manufacturing
As the manufacturing industry tackles some significant challenges including an aging workforce, compliance issues, and declining revenue, the Internet of Things (IoT) is helping reinvent factories and...
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Breaking the wall between data scientists and app developers with Azure DevOps
As data scientists, we are used to developing and training machine learning models in our favorite Python notebook or an integrated development environment (IDE), like Visual Studio Code (VSCode)....
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Azure Stack IaaS – part five
Self-service is core to Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). Back in the virtualization days, you had to wait for someone to create a VLAN for you, carve out a LUN, and find space on a host. If...
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Microsoft’s Azure Cosmos DB is named a leader in the Forrester Wave: Big Data...
We’re excited to announce that Forrester has named Microsoft as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Big Data NoSQL, Q1 2019 based on their evaluation of Azure Cosmos DB. We believe Forrester’s findings...
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Bing delivers text-to-speech and greater coverage of intelligent answers and...
At NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference this week, Bing demonstrated natural sounding text-to-speech AI, expanded intelligent answers, and the ability to quickly see multiple objects auto-detected within...
View ArticleUsing Newtonsoft.Json in a Visual Studio extension
The ever popular Newtonsoft.Json NuGet package by James Newton-King is used throughout Visual Studio’s code base. Visual Studio 2015 (14.0) was the first version to ship with it. Later updates to...
View ArticleWindows 10 SDK Preview Build 18356 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 18356 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 18356 contains bug fixes and under...
View ArticleLinker Throughput Improvement in Visual Studio 2019
In Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2 we made the compiler back-end to prune away debug information that is unrelated to code or data emitted into binary and changed certain hash implementations in the PDB...
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Windows Virtual Desktop now in public preview on Azure
We recently shared the public preview of the Windows Virtual Desktop service on Azure. Now customers can access the only service that delivers simplified management, multi-session Windows 10,...
View ArticleHelping IT reduce costs, increase security, and boost employee productivity
People are at the heart of any business. Employees need great software tools to do their best work. And IT pros need the best management and security solutions. Today, we’re announcing several new...
View ArticleAnnouncing the public preview of Windows Virtual Desktop
Now available in public preview, Windows Virtual Desktop is the only service that delivers simplified management, a multi-session Windows 10 experience, optimizations for Office 365 ProPlus, and...
View ArticleData integration with ADLS Gen2 and Azure Data Explorer using Data Factory
Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2 and Azure Data Explorer in early February, which arms Azure with unmatched price performance and security as one of...
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Expanded Jobs functionality in Azure IoT Central
Since announcing the release of our Jobs feature during the Azure IoT Central general availability launch, we are excited to share how we are working to improve your device management workflow through...
View ArticleAI, Machine Learning and Data Science Roundup: March 2019
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 from...
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Easily Choose Your Route with Bing Maps Traffic Coloring
There is an old saying that you don’t know where you are going until you get there. With Bing Maps new route coloring feature, you will know right away where the delays will be along your selected...
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Getting Started with .NET Core and Docker and the Microsoft Container Registry
It's super easy to get started with .NET Core and/or ASP.NET Core with Docker. If you have Docker installed you don't need to install anything to try out .NET Core, of course. To run a little .NET Core...
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Building serverless microservices in Azure – sample architecture
Distributed applications take full advantage of living in the cloud to run globally, avoid bottlenecks, and always be available for users worldwide. This not only requires the right infrastructure to...
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Larger, more powerful Managed Disks for Azure Virtual Machines
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of larger and more powerful Azure Managed Disk sizes of up to 32 TiB on Premium SSD, Standard SSD, and Standard HDD disk offerings. In...
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