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Hunting for Movie Locations on Bing Maps
As you know, Bing Maps helps you understand your world. Last month I described how you can use imagery on Bing Maps to interactively learn about history by exploring where important events like the...
View ArticleExplore movie locations with new Bing Maps imagery
With the Oscars® coming up this Sunday, movies are on our minds. This month the Bing Maps team’s update on new aerial, 3D and Streetside imagery takes a look at locations from some of our favorite...
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Simple Deployment of Azure Websites with DocumentDB
Azure DocumentDB is a great database option for websites that you’re building on Microsoft Azure. When building and running your application, you’ll likely want different environments for development,...
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Who’ll get it right on Sunday – the Academy? Bing? You? Bing puts you in the...
Hollywood’s biggest night of the year is less than a week away and Bing will help you get ready for the 87th Academy Awards®. Whether you’re a movie buff, red carpet watcher or just love the spectacle...
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Tappsi app helps hail cabs in Bogota
Microsoft cloud and mobile technologies deliver a simple, efficient service for getting a taxi ride in crowded Bogota, Colombia. Sometimes great ideas spring from mundane events. For Juan Salcedo, it...
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Microsoft continues vision for broad big data adoption while showing more...
Today, at the Strata+Hadoop World conference, we are pleased to announce the first Microsoft Azure managed service to be available on Linux, HDInsight. In addition to this, we are announcing updates to...
View ArticleThe first Azure hosted service that runs on Linux
Today, at the Strata Conference we announced the preview of an Azure HDInsight version that runs on Linux.Azure already supports six different distributions of Linux in our gallery and 1 out of 5...
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Enterprise-Grade Array-Based Replication and Disaster Recovery with ASR and...
Today’s GA announcement delivers on a widely requested enhancement from our Enterprise customers – the ability to leverage replication capabilities of existing Storage Area Network (SAN) Arrays to...
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Modern Apps & Agile Analytics
IntroductionAgile software development came out of a number of experimental approaches taken in the late 1990s to change the way software was planned, developed and delivered. One of the essential...
View ArticleKanban split columns, inline adding and editing – Feb 18
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/. This week’s deployment brings a...
View ArticleAzure Mobile Engagement now in Public Preview
Back in May 2014, we acquired Capptain – a leading mobile push analytics provider.Today we are excited to announce that Capptain is now available in Public Preview as Azure Mobile Engagement.With this...
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Bringing asm.js to the Chakra JavaScript engine in Windows 10
Earlier today, we flipped asm.js to “In Development” at status.modern.ie. Support for asm.js has been one of the top 10 most-requested items at the IE Suggestion Box on UserVoice since we launched it...
View ArticleAnnouncing Full PowerShell Cmdlet Support for Azure Automation
You asked, and we answered! This week marks the release of the latest version of the Azure PowerShell module, and along with it 23 newPowerShellcmdlets for managing Azure Automation, locally in the...
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Mobile Services Beta Android SDK with Offline Incremental Sync, Soft Delete,...
Today, we present to you Mobile Services 2.0.2-Beta Android SDK. With this release, we introduce two new Offline features: Incremental Sync and Soft Delete. In addition, we’ve updated our SDK to...
View ArticleAzure Redis Cache Monitoring changes
The Azure Redis Cache service has deployed a new monitoring system, and we’ll be turning off the old system on March 15, 2015. We recommend you take steps to ensure you continue to receive monitoring...
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Microsoft Releases Public Preview of Azure HDInsight on Linux
Yesterday, at the Strata+Hadop World conference, we announced the first Microsoft Azure managed service, HDInsight to be available on Linux. This post will give you the ins and outs of this new...
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Visual Studio Online Update – Feb 18
Yesterday we began our sprint 78 VS Online deployment. You can check out the release notes here: http://www.visualstudio.com/news/2015-feb-18-vso. there are a few nice improvements.It will likely...
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Bing round-up: Ordering food and finding the perfect getaway just got easier
Bing caters to your big night, or any night, needs with food deliveryOrdering food for your Oscars party? Or maybe it’s just too cold out to brave the elements in search of a meal. Bing makes it easier...
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Exploring Data at Scale with New Capabilities in Application Insights and...
Application Insights can capture, store and index large scale amounts of data about your application’s availability, performance and usage. But how can you gain insights from this data once it is...
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Proper benchmarking to diagnose and solve a .NET serialization bottleneck
Here's a few comments and disclaimers to start with. First, benchmarks are challenging. They are challenging to measure, but the real issue is that often we forget WHY we are benchmarking something....
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