Announcing .NET Framework 4.7.2 Early Access build 3052!
Today, we are happy to share the .NET Framework 4.7.2 Early Access build 3052 for your feedback. .NET Framework 4.7.2 is the next version of the .NET Framework. It is currently feature-complete and in...
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Brand Detection in Microsoft Video Indexer
We are delighted to announce a new capability in Microsoft Video Indexer: Brand Detection from speech and from visual text! If you are not yet familiar with Video Indexer, you may want to take a look...
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Welcoming Progressive Web Apps to Microsoft Edge and Windows 10
A little over a year ago, we outlined our vision to bring Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) to the more than half a billion devices running Windows 10. We believe PWAs are key to the web’s future, and...
View ArticleA new experiment: Browser-based web apps with .NET and Blazor
Today I’m excited to announce a new experimental project from the ASP.NET team called Blazor. Blazor is an experimental web UI framework based on C#, Razor, and HTML that runs in the browser via...
View ArticleVcpkg: introducing installation options with Feature Packages
We are happy to announce a new feature for vcpkg in version 0.0.103: Feature Packages. Vcpkg is a package manager to help acquiring and building open source libraries on Windows; vcpkg currently offers...
View ArticleThe AI Show: Data Science Virtual Machine
The Data Science Virtual Machine was featured on a recent episode of the AI Show with Seth Juarez and Gopi Kumar. If you want a quick and easy way to spin up a virtual machine with all of the data...
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Toward a More Intelligent Search: Bing Multi-Perspective Answers
In December, we launched several new Intelligent Answers that go beyond the traditional Q&A style of search and offer answers to more complicated questions. We received so much interest in...
View ArticleAzure Search service upgrades: New hardware, unlimited document counts, and...
Today we are happy to announce performance upgrades to all paid service tiers in Azure Search. For the exact same price, these upgraded Azure Search services have roughly double the compute power of...
View ArticleAzure #CosmosDB Graph API now generally available
Azure Cosmos DB Graph API is the first cloud database to provide graph functionality over a globally distributed managed service. This has enabled users to explore new ways of consuming their data with...
View ArticleMicrosoft offers SAP HANA supportable VMs in UK with the Azure M/B/V3-series
Microsoft becomes the first hyperscale cloud provider to offer SAP HANA supportable VMs in the UK. Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) customers can now take advantage of the Azure M/V3/B-series of VM sizes...
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Diagnosing Errors on your Cloud Apps
One of the most frustrating experiences is when you have your app working on your local machine, but when you publish it it’s inexplicably failing. Fortunately, Visual Studio provides handy features...
View ArticleIn case you missed it: January 2018 roundup
In case you missed them, here are some articles from January of particular interest to R users. Josh Katz and Peter Aldhous used R to analyze the content and presentation of the most recent State of...
View ArticleWindows Developer Day Returns on March 7th!
Windows Developer Day is back! Join us via livestream on March 7th starting at 9:00 AM PST to find out what’s being released in the next Windows 10 Update. Tune into the keynote by Kevin Gallo, Vice...
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Goats up high
Let me start with a little background. Every year, we have new goats born on the farm – generally in March/April. Last year, we had about 10 or so. They live in the field with their moms until...
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Why should I care about Kubernetes, Docker, and Container Orchestration?
A person at work chatted me, commenting on my recent blog posts on the Raspberry Pi Kuberentes Clusters that are being built, and wondered "why should I care about Kubernetes or Docker or any of that...
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File nesting in Solution Explorer
We are excited to share with you a new capability in Visual Studio that was a clear ask from you, the community. Visual Studio has been nesting related files in Solution Explorer for a long time now,...
View ArticleMicrosoft Azure IP Advantage: Our first year
One year ago, we announced Azure IP Advantage, the industry’s leading program to help cloud service customers stay focused on their digital transformation journey and avoid IP issues. The program has...
View ArticleFirst System Center Semi-Annual Channel release now available
I am excited to announce that System Center, version 1801 is now available. Based on customer feedback, we are delivering new features and enhancements in this release including improved Linux...
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OMS Monitoring solution for Azure Backup using Azure Log analytics
We previously announced the preview of Azure Backup reporting and gave customers the ability to generate their own reports and build customizations using Power BI. Today, we are pleased to let you know...
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Custom Speech: Code-free automated machine learning for speech recognition
Voice is the new interface driving ambient computing. This statement has never been more true than it is today. Speech recognition is transforming our daily lives from digital assistants, dictation of...
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