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Previous posts: Microsoft Build 2017, .NET Core 2.0 preview 1, For the King Microsoft Build 2017, .NET Core 2.0 status, Happy birthday .NET with Eilon Lipton, On .NET with Alfonso García-Caro on Fable,...
View ArticleMicrosoft and Cisco enable Azure IoT Suite to connect to Cisco Fog Deployments
As we announced recently, Microsoft thinks there is a natural balance between the cloud and the edge in IoT. Why? Cloud is a natural place to manage IoT devices, to collect data from them, gain...
View ArticleNew 400GB and 200GB caches available on Azure Analysis Services
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 ArticleKubernetes in action: How orchestration and containers can increase uptime...
It’s been about a month since we finalized the acquisition of Deis to expand the Azure Container Service and Kubernetes support on Azure. It’s been really fantastic to watch the two teams come together...
View ArticleMicrosoft R Open 3.4.0 now available
Microsoft R Open (MRO), Microsoft's enhanced distribution of open source R, has been upgraded to version 3.4.0 and is now available for download for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This update upgrades the R...
View ArticleXamarin University’s free webinar series: Learn mobile development from experts
Starting June 1st, Xamarin University’s team of mobile experts – including special guest and author Charles Petzold – will host five new demo-packed webinars, designed to show you how to use Visual...
View ArticleThe largest Git repo on the planet
It’s been 3 months since I first wrote about our efforts to scale Git to extremely large projects and teams with an effort we called “Git Virtual File System”. As a reminder, GVFS, together with a set...
View ArticleWhat’s brewing in Visual Studio Team Services: May 2017 Digest
This post series provides the latest updates and news for Visual Studio Team Services and is a great way for Azure users to keep up-to-date with new features being released every three weeks. Visual...
View ArticleLove is all around: Popular words in pop hits
Data scientist Giora Simchoni recently published a fantastic analysis of the history of pop songs on the Billboard Hot 100 using the R language. Giora used the rvest package in R to scrape data from...
View ArticleAnnouncing General Availability of Work item search
Discovering relevant work items should consume as little time and effort as possible. That’s why we have built work item search with speed and simplicity in mind, so you can spend more of your time on...
View ArticleWhat’s New and Improved with the SlowCheetah Extension
We are delighted to announce the latest release of the SlowCheetah extension for Visual Studio. For those who are new to SlowCheetah, it’s an extension that lets you easily add transforms that enable...
View ArticleAccessibility improvements in EdgeHTML 15
In last year’s Windows 10 Anniversary Update, we introduced a new architecture for web accessibility, enabling a more accessible web with Microsoft Edge. With this dramatically improved foundation,...
View ArticleEpisode 130 on SharePoint developer updates with Vesa Juvonen and Daniel...
In Episode 130 of the Office 365 Developer Podcast, Andrew Coates talks with Vesa Juvonen and Daniel Kogan about SharePoint Developer announcements at Build 2017....
View ArticleUWP and the evolution of touch development
How is programming for touch development on the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) different from mouse and keyboard development in Windows Forms? This post will cover some of the subtle differences...
View ArticleUsing .NET and Docker Together
Many developers I talk to are either using Docker actively or planning to adopt containers in their environment. Containers are an important trend in our industry and .NET is part of that. Microsoft...
View ArticleNew Release Definition Editor in Team Services
Have you ever struggled to create a mental model of how the deployments to your environments would progress? We are introducing the pipeline view for your release definitions that will show how your...
View ArticleWho is the caretaker? Evidence-based probability estimation with the bnlearn...
by Juan M. Lavista Ferres , Senior Director of Data Science at Microsoft In what was one of the most viral episodes of 2017, political science Professor Robert E Kelly was live on BBC World News...
View Article.NET Framework May 2017 Cumulative Quality Update for Windows 10
We just released a new Cumulative Quality Update for the .NET Framework. This update is specific to Windows 10 Creators Update. Previously released security and quality updates are included in this...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: History of Australia
This one's mainly for my Australian friends and family who, if they're anything like me, didn't realize that there had been so many changes since the colonial borders of Australia were first drawn. The...
View ArticlePersonalize what notifications you receive for releases
There are multiple stakeholders for a release. Whether the team is small or large, keeping the right stakeholders informed about how releases are progressing and what actions are required....
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