Announcing the new and improved Azure Log Analytics
The Azure Log Analytics service is rolling out an upgrade to existing customers today – offering powerful search, smart analytics, and even deeper insights. This upgrade provides an interactive query...
View ArticleGeneral Availability: Azure Media Redactor
Azure Media Redactor is a powerful cloud video processing service which is capable of automatically detecting and blurring faces in your videos, for use in cases such as public safety and news media....
View ArticleTutorial: Deep Learning with R on Azure with Keras and CNTK
by Le Zhang (Data Scientist, Microsoft) and Graham Williams (Director of Data Science, Microsoft) Microsoft's Cognitive Toolkit (better known as CNTK) is a commercial-grade and open-source framework...
View ArticleWhat’s new in VSTS Sprint 121 Update
The Sprint 121 Update of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) is rolling out more broadly to accounts this week and includes Wiki in public preview and many features to make your workflow more integrated...
View ArticleEmmet 2.0 in Visual Studio Code
New Emmet 2.0 brings a better Emmet experience inside VS Code. .Read the full article
View ArticleWeb Applications with ASP.NET Core Architecture and Patterns guidance
As part of the series of posts announced at this initial blog post (.NET Application Architecture Guidance) that explores each of the architecture areas currently covered by our team, this current...
View ArticleWeb Applications with ASP.NET Core Architecture and Patterns guidance
As part of the series of posts announced at this initial blog post (.NET Application Architecture Guidance) that explores each of the architecture areas currently covered by our team, this current...
View ArticleAnnouncing Microsoft’s Coco Framework for enterprise blockchain networks
Blockchain is a transformational technology with the potential to extend digital transformation beyond a company’s four walls and into the processes it shares with suppliers, customers and partners. A...
View ArticleBing Maps V8 Summer Update
The main release branch of the Bing Maps Version 8 (V8) Web Control has been regularly updated over the summer. These updates have brought several new features, both big and small, as well as many...
View ArticleData Management Gateway – High Availability and Scalability Preview
We are excited to announce the preview for Data Management Gateway - High Availability and Scalability. You can now associate multiple on-premise machines to a single logical gateway. The benefits are:...
View ArticleUsing Azure Analysis Services over Azure SQL DB and DW
In April we announced the general availability of Azure Analysis Services, which evolved from the proven analytics engine in Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services. The success of any modern...
View ArticleAzure Data Factory July new features update
We are glad to announce that Azure Data Factory has added more new features in July, including: Preview for Data Management Gateway high availability and scalability Skipping or logging incompatible...
View ArticleStretched Hyper-V Cluster on Azure using Express Route
Traditionally, in an on-premises environment we setup stretch clusters across regions to protect against region failure. Microsoft came up with Azure Site Recovery to give users the the capability to...
View ArticleMaven: Deploy Java Web Apps to Azure
We released a new Maven Plugin for Azure Web Apps, you can deploy or redeploy Web apps to Azure App Service Linux or Windows in one easy step. Azure App Service provides a managed Web app environment...
View ArticledplyrXdf 0.10.0 beta prerelease
I’m happy to announce that version 0.10.0 beta of the dplyrXdf package is now available. You can get it from Github: install_github("RevolutionAnalytics/dplyrXdf", build_vignettes=FALSE) This is a...
View ArticleES Modules in Node Today!
Editor’s Note: Today’s post is a guest post from John-David Dalton, a Program Manager on the Microsoft Edge team and creator of the popular Lodash JavaScript library, sharing the news of a new...
View ArticleXbox Live Creators Program Is Now Live!
Back in March, we revealed the Xbox Live Creators Program. Today, we’re excited to announce that any developer can now directly publish their games to Xbox One and Windows 10. We’ve already had some...
View ArticleIn case you missed it: July 2017 roundup
In case you missed them, here are some articles from July of particular interest to R users. A tutorial on using the rsparkling package to apply H20's algorithms to data in HDInsight. Several exercises...
View ArticleUsing your ad units correctly when you have multiple store apps
As we had blogged earlier, ad unit performance has a direct correlation with the application category and the users targeted by the application. Having an ad unit associated with multiple store...
View ArticleC++ Core Guidelines Checker in Visual Studio 2017
This post written by Sergiy Oryekhov and Andrew Pardoe The C++ Core Guidelines can help improve your code and decrease your cost of maintenance by offering a wide range of recommendations: encouraging...
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