Microsoft R Open 3.3.3 now available
Microsoft R Open (MRO), Microsoft's enhanced distribution of open source R, has been upgraded to version 3.3.3, and is now available for download for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This update upgrades the R...
View ArticleAzure Container Registry now generally available
Companies of all sizes are embracing containers as a fast and portable way to lift, shift and modernize into cloud-native apps. As part of this process, customers need a way to store and manage images...
View ArticleSpring Into DevOps on Radio TFS with Gopinath Chigakkagari
As part of the #SpringIntoDevOps series, Gopinath Chigakkagari – GPM of the Release Management team at Microsoft joined the most recent episode of Radio TFS with MVP’s Greg Duncan and Josh Garverick to...
View ArticleMicrosoft + Docker – Investing in the future of your applications
This post was authored by the Microsoft and Docker teams. Did you know when you combine Docker’s cross platform support of Linux and Windows containers and Microsoft cloud technologies, you get a...
View ArticleLegacy web apps in the enterprise
Migrating legacy web apps to modern standards can be both costly and time consuming. IT departments are generally cost centers, and it makes sense for enterprises to want to maximize the ROI on their...
View ArticleThe faces of R, analyzed with R
Maëlle Salmon recently created a collage of profile pictures of people who use the #rstats hashtag in their Twitter bio to indicate their use of R. (I've included a detail below; click to see the...
View ArticleManaging Windows IoT Core devices with Azure IoT Hub
Device management in Windows IoT Core In Fall 2016, Microsoft announced Azure IoT Hub device management, providing the features and extensibility model, including an SDK for a wide range of platforms,...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Art Collective
Reddit conducted an interesting social experiment last weekend. It provided all of its users with a blank canvas, and the ability to color its pixels according to just three simple rules: You can place...
View ArticleICYMI – Your weekly TL;DR
Big news this week with the release of the Windows 10 Creators Update! Before you go heads-down, check out our round-up below! Windows 10 Creators Update and Creators Update SDK are Released Access...
View ArticleGlobal customer access and additional services now available for Azure in India
Since the launch of the Microsoft Cloud in India, we have seen tremendous growth of our customers’ cloud usage. For example, we’re collaborating with Tata Motors, India’s leading auto manufacturer, to...
View ArticleGet started tile now live on Azure Stack
We recently announced the release of Azure Stack Technical Preview 3 refresh with Azure PaaS Services. Coming as a part of this release is the Get Started tile that you have grown to love in public...
View ArticleAvailability of migration of ExpressRoute for Classic to Resource Manager...
Azure Resource Manager provides a lot of benefits with support for tagging, RBAC, and infrastructure orchestration using templates. As part of Azure Resource Manager, Virtual Machines gain these new...
View ArticleInfuse some AI into your Azure apps at hands-on Seattle workshop
If you’re an Azure developer interested to incorporate the very latest AI and machine learning techniques into your apps and enterprise solutions, here’s a free in-person workshop you’ll want to...
View ArticleUse Azure Media Services with PowerApps
You can now build PowerApps with media hosted on Azure Media Services. In this walkthrough, Contoso Corp. wants to build an online learning app for its employees with videos of their products and...
View ArticleConsiderations on using Deployment Slots in your DevOps Pipeline
The goal of DevOps is to continuously deliver value. Using deployment slots can allow you to do this with zero downtime. In the Azure Portal, in the Azure App Service resource blade for your Web App,...
View ArticleAnnouncing TypeScript 2.3 RC
The TypeScript 2.3 Release Candidate is here today! This release brings more ECMAScript features, new settings to make starting projects easier, and more. To get started with the release candidate,...
View ArticleMonetizing your app: Advertisement placement
App developers are free to place their ads in any part of their app; this allows developers for some level of flexibility to blend the ad experience into their app for best results. We have seen that...
View ArticleDeploying to On-Premises Environments with Visual Studio Team Services or...
I hear this particular question frequently as a reason teams are concerned about adopting Visual Studio Team Services when their applications still run on-premises. The good news is that it is...
View ArticleVisual Studio for Teams of C++ Developers
In this blog post we will dive into how Visual Studio supports teams of C and C++ developers. We’ll begin by creating a small C++ program and placing it in a Git repository in Visual Studio Team...
View ArticleHow to control PowerPoint on Windows with a Bluetooth Nintendo Switch JoyCon...
I usually use a Logitech Presentation Clicker to control PowerPoint presentations, but I'm always looking for new ways. Michael Samarin has a great app called KeyPenX that lets you use a Surface pen to...
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