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DataExplorer: Fast Data Exploration With Minimum Code
by Boxuan Cui, Data Scientist at Smarter Travel Once upon a time, there was a joke: In Data Science, 80% of time spent prepare data, 20% of time spent complain about need for prepare data. — Big Data...
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New Feature: Free-form pricing in Dev Center
Pricing your app or add-ons correctly is key to your success on Microsoft Store. As a community, you have been asking for increased flexibility when pricing your products, and the Dev Center team is...
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Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.6 Preview 4
Today, we are excited to share the final Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6 feature preview, which builds upon earlier previews of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6. This preview contains new features, bug...
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Two Lesser Known Tools for Local Azure Development
If you’re developing applications that target Azure services (e.g. Web Apps, Functions, Storage), you’ll want to know about two powerful tools that come with Visual Studio 2017 and the Azure...
View ArticleTop stories from the VSTS community – 2018.02.09
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES Updates from the DevOps VSTS Bot – Jeffrey OpdamDear community, I want to...
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Introducing Social Login for Bing Webmaster Tools
Bing is actively listening to you, our customers, to improve our user experience and to understand what features you want within Bing Webmaster Tools. One of the top requests we have received is to...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Bon Voyage, Starman
TSpaceX's Elon Musk had a plan: to launch his original Tesla Roadster into orbit around Mars, atop the new Falcon Heavy rocket. And on Wednesday, the plan went into effect. The Falcon Heavy launched...
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Azure IoT SDKs released new Long-Term Support branch
The Azure IoT SDKs now have a new Long-Term Support (LTS) Branch. While we develop our SDKs on public GitHub repositories and ship a new version every other week to give developers access to the latest...
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Azure Redis Cache geo-replication is now generally available
We are very happy to announce the general availability of geo-replication support for Azure Redis Cache. Redis Cache is Microsoft Azure’s Cache-as-a-Service offering, based on the popular open source...
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Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage in Storage Explorer – public preview
Providing a rich GUI for Azure Data Lake Storage resources management has been a top customer ask for a long time, we are thrilled to announce the public preview for supporting Azure Data Lake Storage...
View ArticleLast week in Azure: Living the serverless life, Kubernetes, and more
Several of the items highlighted below focus on serverless solutions where you don’t need to provision and manage any servers so that you can take your mind off implementing infrastructure. Building a...
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Build Go apps for Azure with the Go SDK, now generally available
We’re pleased to announce that the Azure SDK for Go is now generally available to help developers build apps for Azure with Go. The SDK features support for connecting to data sources including Cosmos...
View ArticleAnnouncing ASP.NET MVC 5.2.4, Web API 5.2.4, and Web Pages 3.2.4
Today we released stable packages for ASP.NET MVC 5.2.4, Web API 5.2.4, and Web Pages 3.2.4 on NuGet. This release contains some minor bug fixes and a couple of new features specifically targeted at...
View ArticleDiversity scholarships for upcoming R conferences
One of the greatest things about the R community is its diversity. This is largely thanks to organizations like Forwards and R-Ladies, who have been instrumental in welcoming women and other...
View ArticleMicrosoft partners with National Science Foundation to empower data science...
Over the past decade, Microsoft has partnered with the National Science Foundation (NSF) on three separate programs, first in 2010, and more recently through a commitment of $6M in cloud credits across...
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Application consistent backup for Linux VMs using Azure Backup is generally...
We are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of application consistent backup for Linux VMs running in Azure using Azure Backup. We did a preview of this feature last year and customers are...
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New reference architecture for Jenkins on Azure
The patterns & practices (p&p) group of the Azure Customer Advisory Team (Azure CAT), has published a new reference architecture for deploying and running a Jenkins server on Azure with Ubuntu...
View ArticleWhat does Microsoft do with R?
I was genuinely chuffed to get a shout-out in the most recent episode of Not So Standard Deviations, the awesome statistics-and-R themed podcast hosted by Hilary Parker and Roger Peng. In that episode,...
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Machine Learning in .NET – Help us build the right experience!
In the past few years, Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have paved the road for building smarter applications through advancements in speech recognition, computer vision,...
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Accessing Visual Studio Previews in Azure
In our most recent post, the Visual Studio team announced the availability of Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.6 Preview 4. Today, I’m excited to announce you can now access the latest Visual Studio...
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