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HTML5 Audio and Video Improvements for Windows Phone 8.1
Internet Explorer on Windows Phone 8.1 adds new media features that greatly expand its support for HTML5 audio and video. Audio and video elements are now fully supported, including inline playback of...
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[Announcement] ODataLib 6.8.0 Release
We are happy to announce that the ODL 6.8.0 is released. Detailed release notes are listed below.Bug FixRemove the ordering constraint in ODataLib which forces instance annotations of a property to...
View ArticleMicrosoft and Oracle Partnership Helps Customers Embrace Cloud
Last year at Oracle OpenWorld we announced a partnership to run Oracle software on Microsoft Azure so that Oracle customers can run their enterprise applications in a globally available cloud platform...
View ArticleModSecurity Web Application Firewall on Azure Websites
Microsoft Azure Websites now supports ModSecurity web application firewall for your websites. Author custom application firewall rules or consume commercial rules to protect your web application...
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Medical Students use Tech Skills to create Life-Saving App
The 2014 Imagine Cup World Champions were back in town recently for a weeklong YouthSpark Boot Camp, which they won as part of their grand prize. The boot camp was designed to connect the winning team...
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Windows and Windows Phone Store Trends – September 2014 Update
This blog post is the latest in a recurring series that provides details about recent Store trends across categories, markets, and more. Understanding these general trends can help you determine what...
View ArticleAzure Search New Samples and Videos
We announced the Azure Search Public Preview a few weeks ago and we are getting some great feedback. One of the pieces of feedback we have received, is that it is not immediately easy to know what to...
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Inception-Style Nested Data Formats
Dan Harper had a great tweet this week where he discovered and then called out a new format from IBM called "JSONx." "JSONx is an IBM standard format to represent JSON as XML"Oh my. JSONx is a real...
View ArticleSAP on Microsoft Azure – announcing new certifications including Oracle Database
Continuing the partnership between Microsoft and SAP and our commitment to our customers, we are proud to announce new certifications. SAP on Azure is now certified to run on Oracle Database and SAP...
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The Ajax Control Toolkit are now maintained by DevExpress
The open sourced Ajax Control Toolkit now has a new owner: DevExpress. This project was created on codeplex in 2007 and our team has been sponsoring its development ever since. It has been downloaded...
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Universal Windows apps get better with Windows 10
Today Terry Myerson and Joe Belfiore talked about the future of Windows and gave the world its first look at Windows 10. They demonstrated new features designed to make people and businesses more...
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Azure Web Application Gallery on azure.microsoft.com
Azure Gallery now provides an easy way to explore and install popular Open source community web applications from Microsoft Azure Websites. To view the list of applications offered for Azure websites ,...
View ArticleDiagnosing Issues with ModSecurity in Azure Websites
In the previous post ,we talked about using ModSecurity in Azure Websites. ModSecurity rules and configuration can get quite complex, especially if you are copying pieces from external sources....
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Internet Explorer and the Windows 10 Technical Preview
Today, the Windows 10 Technical Preview was launched to give an early look at what’s next for Windows. Only available to install by joining the Windows Insider Program, the Technical Preview is also...
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Windows 10 gets a fresh command prompt and lots of hotkeys
Much has been written and much will be written about the Windows 10 announcement. Windows 10, because 7 8 9.— Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) September 30, 2014I'm pretty stoked, and am playing with the...
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Azure SQL Database Point in Time Restore
In this final post in our series on Business Continuity I’m going to look at point-in-time restore, a self-service feature available for Basic, Standard, and Premium databases. In previous posts I...
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SQL Server AlwaysOn and ILB
SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups on Azure Infrastructure services has been supported since August of 2013. Internal load balancing (ILB) for Azure services was previewed in May 2014 and went...
View ArticleLower your encoding costs with Azure Media Encoder
As announced on our pricing page, we have introduced a new pricing model for encoding that charges only on the output gigabytes. The earlier/legacy model would charge for input and output gigabytes. To...
View ArticleIoT Developer Program Update: Support for Intel Galileo Gen 2 Boards
Back in July we began rolling out the Windows Developer Program for IoT, and today I want to let you know how the program is doing and announce exciting new hardware support.Program UpdateSince we...
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Flipboard: a great example of “Why Windows”
Like the previous releases for Windows tablets and desktops, this edition of Flipboard takes full advantage of the benefits of building apps for Windows. From its information architecture to visual...
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