Bing to power AOL’s search
Two of the most important things we strive for at Bing are for consumers to choose Bing as their search service and for industry leaders to trust Bing to provide search to their customers. Today we...
View ArticleBing to power AOL’s search
Two of the most important things we strive for at Bing are for consumers to choose Bing as their search service and for industry leaders to trust Bing to provide search to their customers. Today we...
View ArticleRelease Dates and Compatibility: Visual Studio 2015 and the Windows 10 SDK
July will be a big month for developers with the releases of Visual Studio 2015, Windows 10, and the Universal Windows App Development Tools, which includes the Windows 10 SDK. The purpose of this post...
View ArticleThe Evolving Role of the Manage Service Provider
Nearly every enterprise has at least one relationship with a managed service provider today and it’s very likely that relationship has evolved over the years. Get ready, it’s changing again and very...
View ArticleTop News from May 2015
Hello everyone! Every month I share some top stories from the previous month. Here’s an overview of some top posts in May.Top Trending Content for May 2015.NET at Build 2015. On the .NET blog, Richard...
View ArticleInside Interop: How Medium Now Works on Microsoft Edge
Microsoft Edge was built from the ground-up with the modern web in mind. When we decided to make a “break from the past” for Windows 10, we didn’t just spend all of our time combing through complicated...
View ArticleASP.NET 5 Beta5 Now Available
This week we released ASP.NET 5 Beta5 as an in-place update to Visual Studio 2015 RC on http://nuget.org!The version that shipped with VS2015RC was Beta4 so you’ll definitely want toget this update....
View ArticleWindows 10 SDK Preview Build 10158 Released
Today, we released a new Windows 10 SDK Preview and the associated Windows 10 Mobile emulators (Build 10158), to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 10158). Preview SDK Build...
View ArticleASP.NET Community Standup - June 30, 2015
This is the first in a series of blog post that will cover the topics discussed in the ASP.NET Community Standup. The community standup is a short video with some of the leaders of the ASP.NET...
View ArticleWindows 10 is coming...here's what to tell non-technical parent
Windows 10 is coming on July 29th! I've been doing Build to Build videos on my YouTube showing what's changing and how it will affect you. I got a request to do a video showing Windows 7, Windows 8,...
View ArticleHow-old.net: Augmenting Virality in Real Time with Batch Analytics using Data...
Microsoft launched the http://www.how-old.net demo as part of the keynote presentation at the Build2015 developer conference. This demo allows anyone to upload a picture and have the Azure ML Face...
View ArticleBig Compute for large engineering simulations
One of the best aspects of working at a company like Microsoft is the great customers and partners you get to meet, and have the opportunity to work with. Today, we would like to share our experience...
View ArticleWorking Toward Universal Interoperability in IoT
Today’s Internet of Things landscape is a modern day Tower of Babel – a proliferation of communication protocols and data formats across the device ecosystem that make it difficult for devices to...
View ArticleC++ Compiler Front-End Fixes In VS2015
This is a quick glance at C++ compiler front-end bugs resolved that were reported on the Microsoft Connect portal. We’re happy to say that we have fixed over 750 Connect feedback bugs in Visual Studio...
View ArticleA Brand New Docker Extension
A year ago, at DockerCon 2014, we announced a Docker VM Extension for Docker, which makes deployment of Docker engine and containers to Linux VMs practical.Today, we are releasing a brand new version...
View ArticleMoving to HTML5 Premium Media
The commercial media industry is undergoing a major transition as content providers move away from proprietary web plug-in based delivery mechanisms (such as Flash or Silverlight), and replace them...
View ArticleAzure Preview Portal Improvements (June Update)
Hi, Azure friends!Today we’re proud to announce a new set of improvements to the Azure Preview portal. Like last time, all these enhancements are in response to the great feedback we’ve received from...
View ArticleThank you for your contributions
Since going open source, Roslyn has had 45 and Visual F# has had 29 unique code contributors external to Microsoft. To celebrate and appreciate our first contributors, we sent them each a small gift in...
View ArticleNetworking API Improvements in Windows 10
In today’s cloud-first, mobile-first technology world, most Store apps have at least some integration with web services or other devices on a network. These include apps that fetch online weather...
View ArticleSubmitting apps with age ratings in the unified Dev Center
Starting in May this year, we began migrating Dev Center accounts to the new dashboard, which has several improvements over the existing Windows Phone or Windows Dev Center dashboards. One of the...
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