Azure Media Services Launches Proven Live Streaming Platform
Today, Azure Media Services is launching the public preview of our Live Streaming and Content Protection offerings. The same Internet scale streaming solution that a dozen leading international...
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Get Around Town Faster with Bing Maps Preview App
Let’s face it. Sometimes using public transportation can be a bit nerve wracking. Am I taking the fastest route? Will I miss my bus? How long will it take me walk to the nearest subway stop? This is...
View ArticleEnabling developers, IT Professionals and business leaders to maximize...
The opportunities unlocked by cloud computing are apparent. And they are not limited to just IT professionals or developers. That is why Microsoft Azure’s strategy is grounded in enabling benefits for...
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The apiphany epiphany: GA’ing Azure API Management
Back in October, we announced the acquisition of apiphany; a recent entrant to the API management space based in Washington-DC. I’m excited to announce that today, Azure API Management leaves Preview...
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Latest Bing Maps Preview app helps you get around town faster
The latest release of the Bing Maps Preview app for Windows (8.1) is now available in the Windows Store. With this release, we set out to take some of the hassle out of public transportation. In select...
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"Simply terrible advice" - If the shoe pinches, don't wear it.
There's few things that get me too riled up when it comes to advice. I love hearing about other people's lives and their life systems. From the mundane and familiar, like how they pack their kids...
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Visual Studio in Gartner’s Integrated Quality Suites report
Gartner recently released this year’s update to their Integrated Quality Suites report. This is the next version of the report I blogged about last year.We’ve worked hard over the last year to...
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Announcing public availability of Azure Media Services Content Protection...
We are pleased to announce the public availability of Azure Media Services Content Protection services. This includes Microsoft PlayReady License service and AES clear key delivery services! In...
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Getting Started with Live Streaming Using the Azure Management Portal
Earlier today we announced the availability of our public preview of Azure Media Services live services. These are the same live services that NBC Sports has used to deliver their multi-platform live...
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High Speed Encoding with Azure Media Services
High speed encoding has been a top customer ask for Azure Media Services and that ask has now been met by enabling customers to select between three different types of Encoding Reserved Units. In this...
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Announcing the Release of Web API OData 5.3
The NuGet packages for ASP.NET Web API OData 5.3 are now live on the NuGet gallery!Download this releaseYou can install or update the NuGet packages for ASP.NET Web API OData 5.3 using the NuGet...
View ArticleAzure SQL Database introduces new near real-time performance metrics
With the recent introduction of new service/performance tier previews (Basic, Standard and Premium) for Azure SQL Database service, there have been many questions from customers on how to evaluate and...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Windows Dev Center Partner Program
If you’ve done any app or game development in the last 10 years, you certainly recognize the criticality and power of third party components. With these components you can add all sorts of amazing...
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Scaled Agile Framework: Using TFS to support epics, release trains, and...
We are pleased to publish the following whitepaper: Scaled Agile Framework: Using TFS to support epics, release trains, and multiple backlogs.The Scaled Agile Framework, or SAFe, is gaining popularity...
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Getting started with Azure Backup
Azure Backup is a great tool that empowers customers to backup data to Azure. Please refer to this article for a quick introduction to Azure Backup. In this post, we will cover how quick and easy it is...
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Responding to app reviews: benefits and guidelines
Last April, we announced the possibility for developers to respond to user customer reviews, and last month we completed the rollout of this feature. Developers who see the “respond” option in Dev...
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Announcing Long Term Retention for Azure Backup
Previously, we had announced long term retention for cloud backups from DPM. With this month’s release of the Azure Backup service, we are extending that capability to cloud backups from all currently...
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Enhance your Application Availability Monitoring with VS 2013 Web Test Plugins
You may be aware Application Insights in Visual Studio Online provides you with the capability of monitoring the availability of your web applications through the use of Visual Studio Web Tests. If...
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Announcing the Release of Web API OData 5.3
The NuGet packages for ASP.NET Web API OData 5.3 are now live on the NuGet gallery!Download this releaseYou can install or update the NuGet packages for ASP.NET Web API OData 5.3 using the NuGet...
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Making your WebGL code more flexible
The August update for Internet Explorer 11 includes new capabilities to help web developers detect when their WebGL application might encounter performance problems due to underlying hardware,...
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