Live Real-time captions with Azure Media Services and Player
Last month, Microsoft Azure Media Services teamed up with the Microsoft Production Studios to webcast the Microsoft Build and Microsoft Ignite keynotes. Combined, the events served live, HD quality...
View ArticleExpanding our Hybrid Cloud and Furthering Cloud Hyper-Scale
At Microsoft, we are committed to helping you achieve more in the cloud-first world. Across our proven enterprise capabilities, hyper-scale cloud infrastructure, and comprehensive hybrid solutions, we...
View ArticleWindows 10 SDK Preview Build 10166 Released
Today, we released a new Windows 10 SDK Preview and the associated Windows 10 Mobile emulators (Build 10166), to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 10166). Preview SDK Build...
View ArticleAnnouncing the GA of Disaster Recovery for VMware Virtual Machines and...
I’m excited to announce the GA of an important functionality in Azure Site Recovery (ASR) that lets you enable replication and protection of your VMware workloads and physical machines to Azure. ASR,...
View ArticleAvailability of Linux RDMA on Microsoft Azure
We are excited to announce availability of Linux RDMA on Microsoft Azure. With this release, we mark a new milestone in our cloud journey and in our vision to make HPC and Big Compute more accessible...
View ArticleAzure Batch Generally Available
I am excited to announce the general availability of Azure Batch, our job scheduling and compute pool management service.Azure Batch helps developers easily scale their compute-intensive workloads to...
View ArticleIntroducing Web Tiles for Microsoft Band - My diabetes data on a Band!
I love wearables. Check out my blog post from 11 years ago on my "Wrist.NET" Microsoft SPOT watch. This was a time before ubiquitous connectivity and it was an amazing device that provided tons of...
View ArticleJust released: Windows 10 Application Deployment tool
With the latest release of Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 10166, we are excited to introduce the Windows 10 Application Deployment (WinAppDeployCmd.exe) tool.The Windows 10 Application Deployment...
View ArticleMicrosoft delivers interactive analytics on Big Data with the release of...
Today, we are pleased to announce the public preview availability of Apache Spark for Azure HDInsight. Apache Spark is an open source project in the Apache ecosystem that has been gaining in...
View ArticleBuilding Linux-Based Solutions on Azure
On July 4th the US celebrated Independence from my home country. On that same day I celebrated the second anniversary of my family’s arrival in the US as I prepared to join one of the many open source...
View ArticleAnnouncing Cortana Analytics Suite and New Partner Investments at WPC 2015
Today at the Microsoft World Wide Partner Conference in Orlando we made a number of significant technology and program announcements to help our customers capitalize on the incredible opportunities...
View ArticleVisual Studio Online Update – July 7
I’m a bit late on this post. It’s been a busy week of travel.Last week we began deploying our sprint 84 release. Because of the logistics around finalizing our TFS 2015 release, it was delayed a bit....
View ArticleTFS 2015 Compatibility
As the release of TFS 2015 has approached, I’ve gotten a lot of compatibility questions. We were a little slow documenting the story but we have it now:...
View ArticleUpdate on Team Foundation Server RC2
I wrote a post about a week ago announcing TFS 2015 RC2. Today, we released downloads for the rest of the languages, along with release notes. All the information in my previous post is still...
View ArticleCrash analysis in the unified Dev Center
Higher user ratings are one of the success factors for apps in the Windows Store. Understanding and acting on customer reviews and minimizing app crashes help increase customer satisfaction, and that...
View ArticleThe TypeScript Team is Hiring!
The TypeScript team is hiring! We’ve been growing, and we have lots of exciting plans ahead.Here are some of the things you’ll do as part of the TypeScript team:Work on the compiler– Every compiled...
View ArticleStop, think, research, debug
I got this great letter from a listener/reader recently. They listened to a recent show on Debugging Windows and it helped them debug a problem at work, but not in a specific technical way. Instead, it...
View ArticleBing Maps now on Azure
Microsoft Azure is a fantastic flexible, versatile and extensible platform to run your business. From web applications through mobile engagement, business process modelling, data manufacturing and...
View ArticleThe Glimpse Team Joins Microsoft
Today, when building applications, web developers need to consider more browsers, platforms, devices, and form factors than ever before. Recent hardware advances, from mobile computing, touch...
View ArticleA Glimpse into the future of Web Development Tools
There’s some exciting news for the ASP.NET community this week on the Visual Studio blog that we wanted to take a moment to point out. Nik Molnar and Anthony van der Hoorn, the creators of Glimpse,...
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