Microsoft expands scope of Singapore MTCS certification
I am pleased to announce the renewal of the Singapore Multi-Tier Could Security (MTCS) Certification Level 3. As part of its commitment to customer satisfaction, Azure has adopted the MTCS standard to...
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Azure Monitor: Send monitoring data to an event hub
With Azure Monitor’s diagnostic settings you can set up your resource-level diagnostic logs and metrics to be streamed to any of three destinations including a storage account, an Event Hubs namespace,...
View ArticleHow cloud speed helps SQL Server DBAs
A few years ago, the Microsoft SQL Server product team introduced a new cloud Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Azure SQL Database, which shares the SQL Server code base. Running a cloud-first service...
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Easily Create IoT Edge custom modules with Visual Studio Code
At the recent Connect(); 2017 in November, we announced public preview of Azure IoT Edge. Now you can bring the intelligence of the Cloud right to the IoT Edge as well as easily create and manage...
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Build your ads free search engine with Bing Custom Search API
It’s a little over 6 weeks since we made the Bing Custom Search API generally available. We are excited to see the applications our partners are building and are overwhelmed with the response we are...
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North Bay Python 2017 Recap
Last week I had the privilege to attend the inaugural North Bay Python conference, held in Petaluma, California in the USA. Being part of any community-run conference is always enjoyable, and to help...
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A chart of Bechdel Test scores
A movie is said to satisfy the Bechdel Test if it satisfies the following three criteria: The movie has at least two named female characters ... who have a conversation with each other ... about...
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Cloud storage now more affordable: Announcing general availability of Azure...
Today we’re excited to announce the general availability of Archive Blob Storage starting at an industry leading price of $0.002 per gigabyte per month! Last year, we launched Cool Blob Storage to help...
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General availability of Azure Site Recovery Deployment Planner for VMware and...
I am excited to announce the general availability (GA) of the Azure Site Recovery Deployment Planner for VMware and Hyper-V. This tool helps VMware and Hyper-V enterprise customers to understand their...
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New Azure management and cost savings capabilities
Enterprise customers choose Azure because of the unique value it provides as a productive, hybrid, intelligent and trusted cloud. Today I’m excited to announce four new management and cost savings...
View ArticleAzure ARM API for consumption usage details
As an update to the Reporting APIs for Enterprise customers we are releasing an updated usage details API. This is a first step in the consolidation of Azure cost and usage based APIs in the ARM (Azure...
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Announcing the General Availability of Azure Bot Service and Language...
Conversational AI, or making human and computer interactions more natural, has been a goal since technology became ubiquitous in our society. Our mission is to bring conversational AI tools and...
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Conversational Bots Deep Dive – What’s new with the General Availability of...
This post was authored by the Azure Bot Service and Language Understanding Team. Microsoft brings the latest advanced chatbot capabilities to developers' fingertips, allowing them to create apps that...
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Connect(); 2017: SmartHotel360 Demo Apps and Architecture
Last month we hosted Microsoft Connect(); in New York City. Connect(); is a three-day, in-person and online developer event. If you missed it, no worries! You can watch our keynotes, sessions, and...
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Announcing Babylon.js v3.1
Babylon.js is an open source framework that allows you to easily create stunning 3D experiences in your browser or your web apps. Built with simplicity and performance in mind, it is the engine that...
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Android NDK R15C support goes in-box in Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.6 Preview
Visual Studio has provided in-box support for building C++ Android and iOS apps or libraries since VS 2015, enabling cross-platform C++ mobile development with full editing and debugging capabilities...
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Bing launches new intelligent search features, powered by AI
Today we announced new Intelligent Search features for Bing, powered by AI, to give you answers faster, give you more comprehensive and complete information, and enable you to interact more naturally...
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R in the Windows Subsystem for Linux
R has been available for Windows since the very beginning, but if you have a Windows machine and want to use R within a Linux ecosystem, that's easy to do with the new Fall Creator's Update (version...
View ArticleBroken Warnings Theory
The “broken warnings theory” is a fictional theory of the norm-setting and signaling effect of coding practices and bug-checking techniques in 3rd party libraries on new bugs and design anti-patterns....
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