Five webinars to catch you up on hybrid cloud
If you need to get up to speed on how to work best in a hybrid environment, we’ve collected five of our most-viewed webinars from the past year for your binge-watching pleasure. These on-demand...
View ArticleNew machine-assisted text classification on Content Moderator now in public...
This blog post is co-authored by Ashish Jhanwar, Data Scientist, Microsoft Content Moderator is part of Microsoft Cognitive Services allowing businesses to use machine assisted moderation of text,...
View ArticleLast Week in Azure #22: Week of March 5
Last week, it became even more evident that Azure is the best place for all of your applications and data with numerous announcements about investments that dramatically expand the choice and ROI of...
View ArticleAzure Batch for oil and gas
There is a new urgency for reaching oil more efficiently in a capital and risk intensive environment, especially with narrow margins around non-traditional exploration. The cost of offshore drilling...
View ArticleHow VSTS is Accelerating the Engineering Group Behind Windows
As part of our engineering processes in Microsoft, we often share best practices and stories of change across the engineering teams in the company. At our latest internal engineering conference as I...
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Giving feedback
Six months ago I wrote a post on Taking Feedback. Several people asked me to write a follow up on giving feedback. Amazing how time flies and somehow I just haven’t gotten around to it – so I’m doing...
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Setting up Application Insights took 10 minutes. It created two days of work...
I've been upgrading my podcast site from a 10 year old WebMatrix site to modern, open source ASP.NET Core with Razor Pages. It's off IIS and now running cross-platform in Azure. I added Application...
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Announcing backup and restore performance improvements and support for large...
Today, we are excited to announce the support for backup of large disk VMs and set of improvements aimed at reducing the time taken for backup and restore. These set of improvements and large disk...
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Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide – free download
This blog post is co-authored by Joachim Hafner, Cloud Solution Architect We’re pleased to offer a free e-book for those of you who are new to Azure or in the beginning stages of planning a cloud...
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Python in Visual Studio 15.7 Preview 1
Today we have released the first preview of our next update to Visual Studio 2017. You will see a notification in Visual Studio within the next few days, or you can download the new installer from...
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Four IT skills with sky-high prospects
Staying on top of new technologies is always important, but what skills will help an IT professional become more influential in the workplace? And what role does certification play? Recent findings...
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Heuristic DNS detections in Azure Security Center
We have heard from many customers about their challenges with detecting highly evasive threats. To help provide guidance, we published Windows DNS server logging for network forensics and the...
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R rises to #12 in Redmonk language rankings
In the latest Redmonk language rankings, R has risen to the #12 position, up from #14 in the June 2017 rankings. (Python remains steady in the #3 position.) The Redmonk rankings are based on activity...
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Bringing expressive, performant typography to Microsoft Edge with Variable Fonts
For years, rich typography has been the envy of many web designers, who long for the typographic variety, texture, and precision available in print media. Now, with the recent innovations of OpenType...
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Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.7 Preview 1
Last week we released Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6 and Visual Studio for Mac version 7.4, and today we are releasing the first preview of the next minor update: Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7. We...
View ArticleLinux C++ Workload improvements to the Project System, Linux Console Window,...
In Visual Studio 2017 15.7 Preview 1 we have made a number of improvements to our support to the Linux C++ workload based on your feedback. You can learn more about our Linux C++ workload in Visual...
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C++ Code Analysis Improvements for Visual Studio 2017 15.7 Preview 1
We’re making it easier to configure and use the C++ code analysis features with a set of changes targeting 15.7. In the first 15.7 preview we’ve cleaned up the UI, fixed our documentation links and,...
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ClangFormat Support in Visual Studio 2017
Visual Studio 2017 15.7 Preview 1 comes with built-in ClangFormat support for C++ developers. ClangFormat is a utility that makes it easy to style and format your code based on a set of rules that can...
View ArticleWindows 10 SDK Preview Build 17115 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 17115 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 17115 contains bug fixes and under...
View ArticleMicrosoft and 21Vianet reinforce long-term cooperation on cloud services in...
Microsoft and 21Vianet have agreed to extend their partnership to provide world-class public cloud services to Chinese customers. Combining Microsoft’s global technological leadership and 21Vianet’s...
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