Bringing Interoperable Real-Time Communications to the Web
Together with the industry-leading expertise of Skype, we’re excited to announce development has begun on the ORTC API for WebRTC, a key technology to make Real-Time Communications (RTC) on the web a...
View ArticleSAN Replication based Enterprise Grade Disaster Recovery with ASR and System...
If you been following the progress of Azure Site Recovery throughout this year, you will recall that our priority has been to make Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions available to everyone, available...
View ArticleDo You Speak Emoji? Bing Does
As you likely know, emoji are small pictures used to express an idea or emotion. With the explosion of mobile devices and the ubiquity of texting, it has become a shorthand language used by billions...
View ArticleElections 2014: Explore State Landmarks on Bing Maps with New Batch of Aerial...
As we discussed last week, Bing has launched a new election experience at Bing.com/election that helps you get a 360-degree view – from local to national – into Elections 2014. To coincide with the...
View ArticleUsing Certificates in Azure Websites Applications
If you have an application on Azure Websites that requires the use of a certificate, you can upload your certificate to the certificates collection in Azure Websites and consume it in your web...
View ArticleEF7 – v1 or v7?
A while ago we blogged about EF7 targeting new platforms and new data stores. In that post we shared that our EF6.x code base wasn’t setup to achieve what we wanted to in EF7, and that EF7 would be a...
View ArticleElection 2014 Edition – Explore state landmarks in the new batch of aerial...
As we discussed last week, Bing has launched a new election experience at Bing.com/election that helps you get a 360-degree view – from local to national – into Elections 2014. To coincide with the...
View ArticleMicrosoft Adaptive Streaming Plugin for OSMF Update
Microsoft Azure Media Services is pleased to announce the released update (v.1.0.12) of Microsoft Adaptive Streaming plugin for OSMF (Open Source Media Framework). The latest release includes support...
View ArticleLogging in with Google, Microsoft and Facebook SDKs to Azure Mobile Services
One of the values that Azure Mobile Services provides is an easy way to implement authentication for mobile applications, via a very simple API – call a login function (or equivalent) on the client...
View ArticleVisual Studio Online is in Europe!
Today we opened up our shiny, new VS Online instance in the Azure “West Europe” region, which is located in the Netherlands. This is a big step and is the first of many more to come in making VS...
View ArticleBuilding a working Robot controlled by an iPhone, C#, and Monkey.Robotics
This year at Xamarin's Evolve there was a Robot Building area that introduced a new beta platform called Monkey.Robotics (GitHub). There is a disclaimer on the GitHub: "Monkey.Robotics is still a...
View ArticleEuropean Datacenter & REST 1.0
European DatacenterBy popular demand, with today’s update, you can now create VS Online accounts in the Azure “West Europe” region, based in the Netherlands. You can get started by going to...
View ArticleExciting updates to Microsoft Azure at TechEd Europe, enabling simplicity,...
There is no denying it- leveraging cloud is top of mind for most enterprises. Whether you are looking to the cloud to drive efficiencies or innovating your business model, there are multiple compelling...
View ArticleAnnouncing a simplified browser-based authoring and configuration experience...
A natural extension to the cloud-based load service this simplified browser-based authoring and configuration experience enables practically anyone to create and run a load test. Performance testing...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Azure Marketplace
Last week at the Microsoft Cloud Briefing, Scott Guthrie joined CEO Satya Nadella onstage to announce how Microsoft is offering the industry’s most complete cloud. As part of this, Guthrie announced...
View ArticleTechEd Europe 2014 News
Today, in the keynote for TechEd Europe, we announced several cool new things…VS Online European data centerWe now have a VS Online instance in the Azure “West Europe” data center and it is open for...
View ArticleCelebrating HTML5 Recommendation with the W3C
Today, while several Internet Explorer team members are at W3C TPAC 2014, the IE team is happy to join Microsoft Open Technologies, other browser vendors, and the web community at large in celebrating...
View ArticleEventDay leverages Microsoft Azure to streamline conferences for organizers...
Successful conferences require immense planning and organization; EventDay, a set of powerful mobile apps, empowers conference organizers to maintain control of the planned program, and operate...
View ArticleMigrate your Websites to Azure in just a Few Clicks
Have you been looking for a way to migrate your websites from your old Windows 2003 servers to Azure Websites? Do you want to test how your sites work on Azure but don’t know an easy way to try that?...
View ArticleIntroducing Azure Websites Migration Assistant
We are excited to announce the general availability of the Azure Websites Migration Assistant. It is now publicly available at https://www.movemetothecloud.net.Now you can easily migrate to Azure...
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