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New Dev Center lifetime registration benefits program
This month we are releasing several new features to enhance your development experience: the lifetime Dev Center account, and the new Dev Center Benefits program. I’d like to encourage you to visit the...
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Azure Automation: Controlling Runbook Streams for Testing and Troubleshooting
When you use Azure Automation to create and run runbooks, two key tasks are the testing of runbooks during authoring and the troubleshooting of runbook jobs in production. In both cases, you need your...
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Application Insights tools in Visual Studio 2013 Summer Update
Application Insights Tools 2.1 comes pre-installed in the Visual Studio 2013 Summer Update, released last month. When you create a new project with it, analytics reports appear in the new Microsoft...
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iOS8 3rd Party Keyboards Reviews - SwiftKey and Swype
I've been running iOS8 for a while now in Beta, and today all my iDevices are running the released iOS 8. One of the most anticipated new features is the ability to create and add 3rd party keyboards....
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A smorgasbord of great Webinars including: Performance and Load Testing Sept...
Steve Borg and Northwest Cadence has been doing a bunch of cutting work DevOps content and would love to share it w/ the world!Their new series kicks off tomorrow (Sept 18th) with: Performance and...
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Enabling CDN for Azure Websites
The Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a service that allows you to send audio, images, and other static files faster and more reliably to customers across the globe. It does this by utilizing a...
View ArticleMicrosoft OCR Library for Windows Runtime
This blog was written by Jelena Mojasevic, Program Manager at Microsoft.We are pleased to announce that Microsoft OCR Library for Windows Runtime has been released as a NuGet package. The library...
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Get ready for fall sports with new imagery on Bing Maps
Last month we announced that we’d recently surpassed the 100-city mark for both our Streetside imagery and our 3D cities. This month we’re adding even more new places to visit, including a number of...
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Beginning the Next Phase of Image Search
At Bing, we’re constantly striving to make your search experience better. In order to do this, we spend a lot of time examining what you’re trying to accomplish. When it comes to image search, we know...
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EF6.1.2 Beta 1 Available
Today we are making Beta 1 of the EF6.1.2 release available. This patch release contains bug fixes and some contributions from our community. What’s in Beta 1?EF6.1.2 is mostly about bug fixes, you...
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Updates to our platform roadmap
Continuing our commitment to openly sharing our platform roadmap via status.modern.IE, today we’re announcing another round of updates to our plan. These updates include new ECMAScript, Networking,...
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Azure Media Services RTMP Support and Live Encoders
Live streaming is now available for public preview, and one of the supported ingest protocols is RTMP. RTMP is a commonly used protocol for ingesting and delivering rich media including live streaming....
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Jump-Location - A Change Directory (CD) PowerShell Command that reads your mind
There's a lovely little utility called autojump for *nix consoles that makes the 'cd' command very smart. More that just auto-completion, it's a kind of "auto guessing." Hence, autojump. There is some...
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It’s On Us
Here is a deeply troubling statistic: 1 in 5 women and 1 in 16 men are sexually assaulted in college.At the White House earlier today, President Obama urged all Americans to stand up against sexual...
View ArticleMicrosoft brings Hadoop to China with the Public Preview of HDInsight
Microsoft is announcing that Azure HDInsight is available today to all customers in China as a public preview. With this release, Microsoft will be the first global cloud provider to have a publicly...
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Now available Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 ALM Virtual Machine and how to...
The Visual Studio ALM Virtual Machine is one of the primary (and best) tools for delivering ALM training and presentations we have at Microsoft and today Brian Keller announced that today we’ve...
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Team Explorer Everywhere 2013 Update 2 is now available
Team Explorer Everywhere (TEE) enables developers to connect to Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Online from Eclipse-based IDEs on Windows and non-Windows platforms, including Linux and Mac OS....
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New D-Series Virtual Machine Sizes
Today, we’re announcing support for a new series of VM sizes for Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines and Web/Worker Roles called the D-Series. These sizes offer up to 112 GB in memory with compute...
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Team Explorer Everywhere 2013.2 (Update 2)
Today, we released Update 2 of Team Explorer Everywhere. You can read details on Will’s blog post.I’ve been amazed lately how many people don’t know about Team Explorer Everywhere. We’ve had it for a...
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Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 CTP 2 (And More) Available
We have a four releases today. First, Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 CTP 2 is available, including a few features (e.g. performance improvements for the Visual C++ browsing experience) and some bug fixes....
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