Bing Predicts goes 9-4 in Week 9, now 89-43 for the year
Bing Predicts goes 9-4 in Week 9, now 89-43 for the yearEach week Bing Predicts picks the winners of every professional football game. By every Wednesday, for the rest of the season, we’ll update our...
View ArticleSupercharging JavaScript performance with asm.js
In June we introduced preview support for asm.js, which is now supported by default in Microsoft Edge starting with Microsoft EdgeHTML 13.10532. With this change, Hosted Web Applications and the...
View ArticleCombining Two Apps into One at Box with the Universal Windows Platform
We recently interviewed Box about how they migrated their Windows 8 apps to create the new Windows 10 Box app, how the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) made the process simpler, and what features had...
View ArticleThe Crowdsourcing of Software Quality
I posted a rant back in 2012 called "Everything's broken and nobody's upset." Here's another. Lots of people commented on that first post and a number agreed with the general premise. Some were angry...
View ArticleNew, Improved, and Faster Database Engine
Hello C++ World! As a follow up to my previous post on our experimental features, I wanted to briefly showcase the “Improved Database Engine” experience. In this short 90-second video , see how taking...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Bing Mobile Friendliness Test Tool
Earlier this year, we shared our approach to mobile-friendly search and ranking and talked about our plans for Webmaster tool additions that will aid site owners in their efforts to create...
View ArticleVungle SDK for Windows 10 Released
Microsoft is proud to announce our partnership with Vungle, the leading in-app video ad platform at Connect ();//2015. Vungle has released the Vungle SDK for Windows 10 apps, which powers monetization...
View ArticleSearching and filtering the Events tab of the Diagnostic Tools window
With Visual Studio 2015 RTM we shipped the first version of the Diagnostic Tools window. In Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 we’ve made the following improvements to the Events tab of the Diagnostic Tools...
View ArticleSupport for Team Foundation Server 2015 in SonarQube TFVC SCM Plugin
We are happy to announce a new version of the SonarQube TFVC SCM plugin (2.1) that adds support for Team Foundation Server 2015. The previous version of the plug-in supports TFS 2013 and below. With...
View ArticleSupport for Active Directory and Single Sign On (SSO) in the SonarQube LDAP...
At Microsoft we have been working closely with SonarSource to improve the developer experience when using SonarQube server. An example is the new version (1.5) of the SonarQube LDAP Plugin. This...
View ArticleBing makes MSN even more rewarding
Bing Rewards members frequently tell us they love earning credits just for searching the web with Bing, but they want more ways to earn credits.Today, we’re responding to this feedback by bringing Bing...
View ArticleIncrease your app’s reach with Windows Store for Business
We announced earlier this year that a new storefront for businesses and organizations would be launching this fall. The new unified Windows Dev Center opened in July with the opportunity for developers...
View ArticleIntroducing EdgeHTML 13, our first platform update for Microsoft Edge
Last week, the first major update for Windows 10 began rolling out to over 110 million devices, including improvements in all aspects of the platform and experience. This update brings Microsoft Edge’s...
View ArticleSAP Fiori Mobile Apps and Tools for Apache Cordova
Cordova makes it easy to build an app for iOS, Android, and Windows using web technologies. Although Blank project templates in Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova provide all the raw materials to...
View ArticleBing Predicts now 93-53 after a 4-10 Week 10
Each week Bing Predicts picks the winners of every professional football game. By every Wednesday, for the rest of the season, we’ll update our prior week’s results, share our upcoming week’s...
View ArticleProtecting Microsoft Edge against binary injection
In May, we announced that Microsoft Edge was saying goodbye to binary extensibility models such as ActiveX and Browser Helper Objects. This change made browsing in Windows faster, more secure, and more...
View ArticleEF7 RC1 & EF Moving to the .NET Blog
Moving to the .NET BlogLike a number of other teams that write libraries for the .NET Framework, we have decided to join the list of bloggers that post to the .NET Framework blog. This provides a...
View ArticleAnnouncing ASP.NET 5 Release Candidate 1
As scheduled on our ASP.NET 5 roadmap and demonstrated during the Connect() event, we are proud to announce the availability of runtime and tooling for the RC1 release of ASP.NET 5. The framework and...
View ArticleNews from Connect(); 2015
Today is our annual Fall developer Connect(); event in New York. I’m here talking about a ton of new stuff that we’re doing to help developers adopt agile DevOps practices. Normally I would write a...
View ArticleSign Up for the Upcoming Intune App SDK Beta
One of the challenges enterprises face in a cloud-first, mobile-first world is protecting sensitive data in the face of an increasing number of business critical mobile apps running on employee owned...
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