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Azure #CosmosDB: Entry point for unlimited containers is now 60% cheaper and...
Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s globally distributed, horizontally partitioned, multi-model database service. The service is designed to allow customers to elastically and independently scale...
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XBox – Analytics on petabytes of gaming data with Azure HDInsight
This blog post was co-authored by Karan Gulati, Senior Software Engineer, XBOX and Daniel Hagen, Senior Software Engineer, XBOX. Microsoft Studios produces some of the world’s most popular game titles...
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Reference Architecture and automation for Financial Services web applications
Today we are pleased to announce the release of a new Azure Financial Services Regulated Workloads Blueprint. The Azure Security and Compliance Blueprint Program provides automated solutions and...
View ArticleParticipate in the Developer Economics Survey
The Developer Economics Q4 2017 survey is here in its 14th edition to shed light on the future of the software industry. Every year more than 40,000 developers around the world participate in this...
View ArticleAnnouncing the preview release of subscription level budgets via ARM APIs
Azure customers manage budgets at a workload level and need granular controls on monitoring the spend on cloud services. Workloads sometimes share a subscription and yet need to be budgeted for...
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ASA Police Data Challenge student visualization contest winners
The winners of the American Statistical Association Police Data Challenge have been announced. The ASA teamed up with the Police Data Initiative, which provides open data from local law enforcement...
View ArticleService Workers: Going beyond the page
We’re thrilled to announce that today’s Windows Insider build enables Service Workers by default in Microsoft Edge for the first time. This is an exciting milestone for us and for the web! These new...
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Application Engagement in Windows Timeline with User Activities
Great applications help users do great things — enabling a wide range of creative, productivity and entertainment scenarios. Returning to activities can be a challenge, especially when a person wants...
View ArticleWindows 10 SDK Preview Build 17061 now available
Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 17061 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 17061 contains bug fixes and under...
View ArticleC++17 Progress in VS 2017 15.5 and 15.6
VS 2017 15.5 is now available for production use, and 15.6 Preview 1 is also available. As usual, here are feature tables for the STL and compiler, plus a detailed list of STL improvements. (You can...
View ArticleNew connectors available in Azure Data Factory V2
We keep enriching the breadth of connectivity in Azure Data Factory to enable customers to ingest data from various data sources into Azure when building modern data warehouse solutions or data-driven...
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Azure HDInsight Performance Benchmarking: Interactive Query, Spark, and Presto
Fast SQL query processing at scale is often a key consideration for our customers. In this blog post we compare HDInsight Interactive Query, Spark, and Presto using the industry standard TPCDS...
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How Azure Security Center detects vulnerabilities using administrative tools
This blog post is authored by Dotan Patrich, Senior Software Engineer, Azure Security Center and by Yossi Weizman, Security Software Engineer Intern, Azure Security Center. Earlier this year, Rob Mead...
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eRum 2018 to be held in Budapest, May 14-18
The main international R user conference, useR!, is typically hosted in Europe every other year. Back in 2016 when useR! was held in the USA, an alternative conference was held in Poland. Next year...
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New Alerts (preview) in Azure Monitor
This blog post was co-authored by Kiran Madnani, Principal PM Manager, AIM India. Alerts are an important mechanism for customers to get notified about issues early and to take automated actions to...
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Dev Center’s Year in Review: 2017
In 2017, the Dev Center Team has been hard at work bringing new features and programs to the Windows developer community. Our goal is to deliver features that will help you, as a developer, attract new...
View ArticleWhat’s New for Chrome debugging in VS Code
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View ArticleJoin on-demand recasts of Azure Cosmos DB and Azure SQL Database webinars!
In case you missed them, we’ve posted the Azure Cosmos Database and Azure SQL Database webinars for on-demand viewing. The first webinar takes a closer look at Azure Cosmos DB, a globally distributed,...
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Announcing the public preview for Adaptive Application Controls
At Microsoft Ignite, we announced new adaptive applications controls that protect your applications from malware by using whitelisting rules. Today, we are excited to share that these capabilities are...
View ArticleBenefits of migrating IaaS to Azure Resource Manager
Why IaaS on Azure Resource Manager It has been more than 2 years since we launched IaaS on Azure Resource Manager. Since then, we’ve been busy adding awesome features to this new stack in addition to...
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