Project Spartan and the Windows 10 January Preview Build
Yesterday, we announced that Windows 10 will ship with a brand new browser, codenamed “Project Spartan.” Designed for Windows 10, Spartan provides a more interoperable, reliable, and discoverable...
View ArticleWindows 10 is empowering developers to dream again
Yesterday Terry showed you how Windows 10 will usher in a new generation of Windows by powering innovation and more personal computing across the largest range of devices, including Microsoft Surface...
View Article[Announcement] OData Web API 5.4 Beta
The NuGet packages for OData Web API 5.4 beta are now available on the NuGet gallery.Download this releaseYou can install or update the NuGet packages for OData Web API 5.4 beta using the Package...
View ArticleWhy Analytics?
Analytics gives us the ability to understand our users and what they are experiencing, so we can build the right applications for them. It alerts us quickly to any issues and helps us diagnose them...
View ArticleNow Available in Dev Center: Windows Download Badges in More Languages
We know you are always looking for ways to increase awareness and downloads, and download badges are a great way to do it. Now, Windows and Windows Phone Store download badges are available in several...
View ArticleUber driver, wine maker, working from home make the list as Bing predicts...
According to Bing Predicts, American workers want careers that offer more autonomy and the flexibility to work from home. Factors that have influenced this career trend include a rise in opportunities...
View ArticleAnnouncing New Enhancements to Azure Search Suggestions
“Search suggestions” is the building block you use to implement auto-complete functionality in your application. In some scenarios it’s a key piece of functionality that helps users navigate what’s...
View ArticleNew G-Series Support in US East 2
Several weeks ago, we announced support for the new G-series sizes for Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines. These sizes offer up to 32 vCPUs using the latest Intel® Xeon® processor E5 v3 family, 448GB of...
View ArticleIT Pros: Trade Your Tech Support Stories for a Surface Pro 3
The Enterprise Mobility Suite team has just launched a contest looking for the best tales from tech support – those things that end users do that (without you) would make your IT totally unsecure or...
View ArticleVIDEO: Do you really know how to use Microsoft Word? The Power of Tabs and...
I spent part of my lunch hour today remoted into a friend's computer who was having a lot of trouble with Microsoft Word. Like most of you she's an "experience Word user" and would happily put...
View ArticleHiring for VS Online and Team Foundation Server
Microsoft has an extensive recruiting effort. But we recently decided to try something new to try to find more people who might want to help build VS Online and Team Foundation Server. We added a...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2013 Update 5 (2013.5) CTP 2
Today, we are happy to announce the availability of Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 Community Technology Preview 2 (CTP 2), to which we've added support for graphics debugging of Unity-based applications...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2013 Update 5 CTP 2 Released
Today we released Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 CTP 2, adding support for graphics debugging of Unity-based applications on Windows Phone, and making fixes in the IDE, Team Foundation Server, and Git...
View ArticleAttend the Visualizing Big Data on Bing Maps Webcast
Join Ricky Brundritt, Bing Maps Program Manager with Microsoft Partners MapCite and Moonshadow Mobile for an overview of different solutions for visualizing Big Data on Bing Maps. In this webcast we...
View ArticleBlender on Azure Batch
In October we announced the public preview of a new service called Azure Batch. This service provides job scheduling and resource management as a service and makes it extremely simple to cloud enable...
View ArticleMigration cookbook now available for the latest Azure SQL Database Update (V12)
We are delighted to announce the availability of a migration cookbook for the latest Azure SQL Database Update (V12)! The cookbook describes various approaches you can use to migrate an on-premises SQL...
View ArticleThe Basics of 3D Printing in 2014 - from someone with 16 WHOLE HOURS' experience
I bought a 3D printer on Friday, specifically a Printrbot Simple Metal from Amazon for US$599. I did a few days of research, looking at all the consumer models under $1000. Some where enclosed, others...
View ArticlePerformance Tips for Azure DocumentDB – Part 2
Performance Tips for Azure DocumentDB – Part 2Azure DocumentDB allows you to tune the performance of your database to best meet the needs of your application. In part 1 of this series, we looked at...
View ArticleLicensing changes - User acceptance testing and Agile planning
This is next in a series of licensing and feature changes that I laid out in December. With this, I think all of the cloud changes (and more) that I described have been made. Some of the on-prem...
View ArticleVS Online Basic license expanded – Jan 27
Note: The improvements discussed in this post will be rolling out throughout the week. Please follow progress of the deployment at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vsoservice/.Basic license expandedFirst and...
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