How Well Do You Use Cloud Economics In Your Cloud Strategy?
Is your cloud strategy centered on saving money or fueling revenue growth? Where you land on this question could determine a lot about your experience level with cloud services and what guidance you...
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Azure DocumentDB bids fond farewell to Self-Links
Ok, I admit it, that title is misleading because we’re not getting rid of self-links entirely. I’ll explain more in a bit, but first let’s pause for a moment to reflect on how and why DocumentDB uses...
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Announcing Geospatial support in Azure DocumentDB!
We are excited to announce support for geospatial indexing and querying in Azure DocumentDB!The latest DocumentDB service update includes support for automatic indexing of geospatial data, as well as...
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Azure Media Player update with multi-audio stream support
You asked for it, and we listened! With an overwhelming number of requests on the Azure Media Player UserVoice Forum for the ability to switch between multiple audio streams, Azure Media Player 1.3.0...
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Team Foundation Server 2015 upgrade planning
Do you plan to upgrade your Visual Studio Team Foundation Server? Here are a few discussions and checklists to help you with the planning:New Elements of TFS 2015 that influence an upgradeLong Lead...
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Debugging Optimized Code
In your normal edit->compile->debug workflow, you will generally use the Debug build configuration. Debug builds compile code to keep the executable machine code as close to the original source...
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Dependency call stack and application insights SDK labs
We have released an experimental package to trace the stack for every dependency call collected by Visual Studio Application Insights. With the existing SDK for .NET, you can track calls from your app...
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Containers: Docker, Windows and Trends
You can’t have a discussion on cloud computing lately without talking about containers. Organizations across all business segments, from banks and major financial service firms to e-commerce sites,...
View ArticleWindows 10 virtual machines now available on Microsoft Edge Dev
Today, we have updated the Microsoft Edge Dev site with major fixes and new features, including Windows 10 virtual machines with Microsoft Edge and a faster, clearer platform roadmap. With these...
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New Windows Microsoft advertising SDK with support for Video interstitials
Today, Microsoft is releasing several important capabilities that allow you to increase ad revenue in your apps:Microsoft Universal Ad Client SDK for Windows 10Support for video interstitials on...
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IntelliTest - hands on
In practical terms, white box unit test development includes an iterative workflow informed by code coverage - write a unit test, see what parts of the code are not covered by the test, write more...
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Announcing Backup of Windows 10 machines using Azure Backup
Windows 10 client machines can now be backed up seamlessly to cloud by Azure Backup service. Customers with machines running Windows 10 (64-bit) operating systems can protect their important...
View ArticlePreviewing our first platform updates for Microsoft Edge
Yesterday, we moved Microsoft Edge Dev out of beta, and we are now directing all traffic from status.modern.ie to our new Platform Status page, which has significant improvements to performance and...
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Engaging customers with Live Tiles and toast notifications (10 by 10)
Last week, we talked about how you can do three things to get your apps discovered and launched by Windows 10 customers. This week, we’d like to continue with how to increase customer engagement...
View ArticleAzure Government Achieves Significant Compliance Milestones
In April Microsoft announced four new industry certifications for Microsoft Azure – CDSA for the digital media and entertainment industry, FISC for Japanese financial services organizations, DISA Level...
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Breaking news: Bing connects the dots to get behind the news
Earlier this summer, we introduced new features to make it easier to discover, browse and watch news stories on the go. However, it’s often hard to make sense of what’s really going on with so many...
View ArticleMicrosoft Showcases Software Defined Networking Innovation at SIGCOMM
Microsoft’s Albert Greenberg, Distinguished Engineer, Networking Development, has been chosen to receive the 2015 ACM SIGCOMM Award for pioneering the theory and practice of operating carrier and data...
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Dealing with Software Religious Arguments and Architectural Zealotry
Warning: Excessive use of Capitals for Emphasis ahead.A friend of mine left his job to start a medical startup and has been in the middle of a Fight Over The Tech Stack. The current challenge is very...
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Bing announces availability of the knowledge and action graph API for developers
Today, Bing is announcing that its knowledge and action graph will be available to developers via a new API. With this new API, developers can enhance their apps by exposing rich data from the Bing...
View ArticleMicrosoft and Mesosphere partner to bring Mesos container orchestration...
In April, we announced Azure’s support for the Mesosphere Datacenter Operating System (DCOS), which expanded the options for container deployment and orchestrations solutions on Azure. Since that time,...
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