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Bing Rewards members can now earn up to 3,000 credits by shopping the...
If you haven’t yet started your holiday shopping, it may just pay you to get going early this year. For a limited time, Bing Rewards members will get bonus credits just by buying certain products in...
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Incident response
We had an incident on VS Online yesterday, starting at 1 AM UTC (5:00 PM PST). The incident was caused by an underlying Azure storage incident affecting many stamps in several regions. I don’t know...
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Post-Release Goodies
The Rosetta lander Philae wasn't the only thing in space last week. Our launch of Visual Studio 2015 Preview and our announcement to open source the full .NET server stack was out of this world. After...
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Announcing AES Dynamic Encryption enabled on Live streaming with Azure Media...
We are very excited to announce that AES dynamic encryption is also now available in Azure Media Services for your live streams. With Azure Media Services, you can configure AES dynamic encryption and...
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Connecting to Cloud Services
Modern applications often rely on services for analytics, data storage and retrieval, and customer information. It’s increasingly common to see applications that blend together services such as...
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Post-Release Goodies
The Rosetta lander Philae wasn't the only thing in space last week. Our launch of Visual Studio 2015 Preview and our announcement to open source the full .NET server stack was out of this world. After...
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Visual C++ Compiler on Rise4Fun
As you know, through CTPs and Preview releases, we have been trying to make the Visual C++ compiler bits available more frequently. In the same line, we have now decided to provide a view into the live...
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Working with Dates in Azure DocumentDB
JSON (www.json.org) is a lightweight data-interchange format that is easy for humans to read and write yet also easy for machines to parse and generate. JSON is at the heart of DocumentDB. We transmit...
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Introducing Smart Unit Tests
If you have not already seen the brief video on the Smart Unit Tests feature, I urge you to do so; this feature can help you overcome any inertia in getting started writing unit tests. But there is...
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New Foursquare app and Cortana - a great match
Continuing a theme of partnership, I’m pleased to share news from the collaboration between foursquare and Microsoft.Foursquare, now available on Windows Phone, complements Swarm by offering a better...
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Developer Matthew Carlson’s ‘touchable’ email app relies on Windows 8.1;...
TouchMail leverages gestures, visuals, and the power of touch in its innovative email app that makes it possible to find and organize email faster than ever before. Co-founder and CEO Matthew Carlson...
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Yesterday evening Pacific Standard Time, Azure storage services experienced a service interruption across the United States, Europe and parts of Asia, which impacted multiple cloud services in these...
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ASP.NET 5 (vNext) Work in Progress - Exploring TagHelpers
TagHelpers are a new feature of ASP.NET 5 (formerly and colloquially ASP.NET vNext) but it's taken me (and others) some time to fully digest them and what they mean.Note that this, and all of ASP.NET 5...
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Bing predicts the NFL Playoffs
As we approach the last days of November, we prepare for the annual time-honored tradition of … NFL playoff projections. By the time you’ve finished your turkey on Thanksgiving Day, NFL teams will be...
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Special Offers from Visual Studio Partners
Last week at our Connect(); event in New York City, we made some big announcements regarding our ecosystem from a developer as well as a partner point of view. In addition to those announcements, I...
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The Bing homepage goes HD (and some other things you asked for)
Here on the Bing homepage team, we wake up every day thinking about how we can make the homepage even better, inspired by those of you who visit bing.com each day and take the time to tell us what you...
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Architecting a Disaster Recovery plan for Multi-tier Web Applications using...
Application software in an organization is the engine of business productivity and the most visible portion of its IT environment. Whether it be intranet applications or customer facing web...
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Azure Resource Manager 2.5 for Visual Studio
Previously known as Azure Resource Manager Tooling PreviewThe Azure Resource Manager 2.5 for Visual Studio enables you to:Create an application using the Azure Gallery templates.Create and edit Azure...
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New Features in C# 6
C# 6 is the version of C# that ships with VS 2015 Preview. The philosophy behind this version is straightforward: improve simple everyday coding scenarios, without adding much conceptual baggage. The...
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How Bing and Your Mobile Device Became Friends
As we discussed in Meet our Mobile Bots recently, Bing probes websites using device-specific crawlers to understand if they provide a good experience on different devices and platforms and to inform...
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