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Meet Microsoft’s new managed microservices: Azure Service Fabric Mesh

Microsoft’s Azure Service Fabric gets a containerized makeover with Azure Service Fabric Mesh

By Simon Bisson

Aug 21, 2018 6 mins

Microsoft .NET Microsoft Azure Serverless Computing

Quantum katas teach you how to do quantum programming in Q#

Quantum computing needs new skills, and Microsoft Research now has a way to teach those skills

By Simon Bisson

Jul 31, 2018 5 mins

Development Tools Software Development

Build and test microservices applications with Azure Dev Spaces

Microsoft adds Kubernetes tools to Azure to help developers work with cloud native code. Here’s how to get started

By Simon Bisson

Jul 17, 2018 6 mins

Development Tools Microsoft Azure PaaS

How to develop cross-platform apps more easily with Xamarin.Essentials

The combination of Xamarin.Essentials and Xamarin Forms should finally give Microsoft the end-to-end cross platform development story it’s been seeking for PCs and mobile devices

By Simon Bisson

Jul 10, 2018 6 mins

Development Tools Mobile Development Software Development

Microsoft Graph Explorer: A good tool that’s not yet ready

The GraphQL tools for programming the Microsoft 365 platform are promising but lack the needed integration into developer tools

By Simon Bisson

Jul 3, 2018 5 mins

APIs Data Integration Databases

Introducing React Native Windows for cross-platform apps

Building on Facebook’s React, Microsoft is delivering tools for building cross-platform code for Windows, the web, and beyond

By Simon Bisson

Jun 19, 2018 6 mins

JavaScript Mobile Development Small and Medium Business

Introducing SPFx, the SharePoint Framework for business apps

Microsoft’s open source web tool is changing how you build business applications on top of SharePoint

By Simon Bisson

Jun 12, 2018 6 mins

Development Tools Software Development Technology Industry

Introducing CloudEvents for event-driven development

An effective set of standards for handling events and API calls will make it easier for developers to extend existing services to support serverless endpoints

By Simon Bisson

Jun 5, 2018 6 mins

Cloud Computing Software Development Technology Industry

Inside Microsoft’s Azure Sphere hardware for secure IoT

As more and more smart devices are deployed, securing and managing them becomes more and more important

By Simon Bisson

May 29, 2018 5 mins

Microsoft Azure Security Technology Industry

Data-driven agriculture: How IoT could change farming

Azure IoT Edge is powering Microsoft Research’s agricultural monitoring and machine learning platform, called FarmBeats

By Simon Bisson

May 22, 2018 6 mins

Technology Industry

How to convert legacy Windows apps to Windows 10

There’s a lot of old Win32s, WinForms, and WPF code out there, and now Microsoft plans to make it easy to bring it to Windows 10’s UWP

By Simon Bisson

May 15, 2018 6 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development Technology Industry

Real-time AI gets closer with Project Brainwave

Microsoft’s Project Brainwave extends Azure ML to datacenter and network hardware, to bring the machine learning processing where the data is

By Simon Bisson

May 8, 2018 7 mins

Machine Learning Microsoft Azure Technology Industry

How to run .Net apps in the browser with Blazor

Microsoft’s Blazor experiment uses modern web technologies like WebAssembly to put a .Net runtime inside your browser

By Simon Bisson

May 1, 2018 6 mins

Software Development Technology Industry Web Development

Optimizing web apps with the Sonarwhal linter

Microsoft’s open source Lint-based website testing tool helps secure and optimize web applications

By Simon Bisson

Apr 24, 2018 7 mins

App Testing Software Development Web Development

Azure IoT Hub goes basic for cheaper telemetry deployments

You can implement an effective industrial control system for only a few hundred dollars a month

By Simon Bisson

Apr 17, 2018 5 mins

Cloud Computing Microsoft Azure Technology Industry

Cross-cloud software development comes to Azure

Cloud-native apps built on Kubernetes can run anywhere. Now, with Open Service Broker, they can also use services hosted in public clouds such as Azure

By Simon Bisson

Apr 10, 2018 6 mins

Cloud Computing Microsoft Azure Technology Industry

Azure Service Fabric: What you need to know

Microsoft has open-sourced one of Azure’s foundational services. But what is Service Fabric and how can you use it?

By Simon Bisson

Mar 20, 2018 6 mins

Microsoft Azure PaaS Technology Industry

How to use Microsoft’s Active Card in your chat apps

Information cards step outside the traditional chat format, to display formatted text and images, and even add interactions

By Simon Bisson

Mar 13, 2018 6 mins

Development Tools Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

Visual Studio Code joins the Anaconda Python data science toolkit

Microsoft’s Anaconda support is the next step in its open source analytics expansion

By Simon Bisson

Feb 27, 2018 5 mins

Python Technology Industry Visual Studio

Get started with Google Go in Azure

Microsoft gives Go developers a set of Azure SDKs for Visual Studio, Azure Stack, and Azure itself

By Simon Bisson

Feb 20, 2018 6 mins

Google Go Microsoft Azure Technology Industry

Q# language: How to write quantum code in Visual Studio

Microsoft is making a big bet on a quantum computing future. Here’s how you are going to write code that uses those new machines

By Simon Bisson

Feb 13, 2018 6 mins

Software Development Technology Industry

Get started with Azure Event Grid for serverless publish-and-subscribe

Microsoft’s publish-and-subscribe event-distribution tool is now ready for your code

By Simon Bisson

Feb 6, 2018 6 mins

Microsoft Azure Serverless Computing Technology Industry

How to use Microsoft Teams for chatops

Microsoft’s latest update to Teams adds new ways of linking chat to your apps and services via the Bot Framework

By Simon Bisson

Jan 30, 2018 5 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development

What you need to know about Azure Notebooks

Microsoft has built an analytic playground with open-source Jupyter Notebooks in its cloud

By Simon Bisson

Jan 23, 2018 6 mins

Development Tools Microsoft Azure Technology Industry

How to get your own apps into the Azure Marketplace

The Azure Marketplace is more than a place to get SaaS apps—you can deliver your own apps through it as well

By Simon Bisson

Jan 16, 2018 6 mins

Microsoft Azure SaaS Technology Industry

Microsoft in the enterprise: 7 predictions for 2018

The last year was a busy one for Redmond. It’s looking like this year will be even busier

By Simon Bisson

Jan 2, 2018 6 mins

Cloud Computing Software Development Technology Industry

The new UI: Developing for wheel and voice in Windows 10

Human-computer interaction goes further than keyboard and mouse in modern Windows; be sure your apps take advantage of the new UI methods

By Simon Bisson

Dec 19, 2017 6 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development Technology Industry

How to choose the right Azure cloud VMs

As Microsoft’s cloud gets more complex, building infrastructure as a service gets easier

By Simon Bisson

Dec 12, 2017 6 mins

IaaS Microsoft Azure Technology Industry

Azure Databricks: Fast analytics in the cloud with Apache Spark

Microsoft’s partnership with Databricks adds new analytics tools to Azure’s data platform

By Simon Bisson

Nov 28, 2017 6 mins

Apache Spark Microsoft Azure Technology Industry

For developers, Microsoft’s AI future gets a foundation

New tools and an AI school show that Microsoft is getting serious about delivering to developers an AI-powered future

By Simon Bisson

Nov 21, 2017 5 mins

Development Tools Machine Learning Technology Industry

Azure IoT Edge brings smarts to devices at the cloud’s edge

Devices on the edge of internet should be able to act on their own, and connect only when needed. That’s what Azure IoT Edge enables

By Simon Bisson

Nov 15, 2017 5 mins

Cloud Computing Microsoft Azure Technology Industry

What’s new in Azure Functions: durable states

New serverless state capabilities in Azure Functions offer an alternative way of managing events and actions

By Simon Bisson

Nov 14, 2017 6 mins

Microsoft Azure PaaS Technology Industry

HoloLens goes to work—but easier developer tools are needed

Microsoft is giving its augmented-reality visors a new enterprise vision, one that’s targeting the 2 billion workers who don’t have a PC

By Simon Bisson

Nov 7, 2017 5 mins

Data Visualization Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

Windows Server 1709: Container-focused, devops-oriented

Microsoft is changing not just how it delivers Windows Server, but also how it thinks about the role of the server

By Simon Bisson

Oct 31, 2017 5 mins

Devops Software Development Technology Industry

Get started with Microsoft’s Azure IoT DevKit

Add machine learning and stream analytics to your internet of things prototypes, even if they don’t run Windows

By Simon Bisson

Oct 24, 2017 7 mins

Microsoft Azure PaaS Technology Industry

Inside Microsoft’s quantum computing world

Get ready for a whole new—and very cold—way of developing software

By Simon Bisson

Oct 17, 2017 6 mins

Cloud Computing High-Performance Computing Software Development

Making sense of Microsoft’s graph database strategy

From the Microsoft Graph to LinkedIn and beyond, Microsoft is betting on a graph database future

By Simon Bisson

Oct 10, 2017 6 mins

APIs Databases Technology Industry

How to transfer your datacenter’s data to Azure

Hybrid applications need dedicated connectivity and new ways of getting data from your datacenter to the cloud

By Simon Bisson

Oct 3, 2017 5 mins

Cloud Computing Microsoft Azure Technology Industry

Data storage in Azure: Everything you need to know

Microsoft Azure has many data storage options, so how do you choose what to use? This guide explains the options

By Simon Bisson

Sep 26, 2017 6 mins

Cloud Computing Cloud Storage Microsoft Azure

Progressive web apps in Microsoft Edge: What you need to know

Microsoft’s Windows 10 browser is about to run apps offline. Here’s how to take advantage of its new features in your web apps

By Simon Bisson

Sep 19, 2017 6 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development Technology Industry

Get started with cloud app dev in Azure App Service

How to use Azure’s PaaS tools to build cloud-hosted apps that run on your mobile devices and in your browsers

By Simon Bisson

Sep 12, 2017 6 mins

Microsoft Azure Mobile Development Technology Industry

How Microsoft will bring blockchain to the enterprise

Businesses can get a lot out of the blockchain that powers bitcoins, and Microsoft’s Coco Framework aims to give them fast and private access to the underlying technologies

By Simon Bisson

Sep 5, 2017 7 mins

Cloud Computing Data Management Technology Industry

Failures make Microsoft Office better and better

Microsoft is experimenting with focused tools to let you dip into work as needed. Some experiments end up moving Office 365 to the next level

By Simon Bisson

Aug 29, 2017 6 mins

Microsoft Office Software Development

Get started with Azure Event Grid for serverless events

Microsoft extends its serverless Azure platform to handle events via an infrastructureless publish-and-subscribe service

By Simon Bisson

Aug 22, 2017 5 mins

Microsoft Azure Serverless Computing Technology Industry

.Net Core 2.0: Everything you need to know

In the cloud and on all your devices, the latest .Net release will give you a common framework for all your enterprise code

By Simon Bisson

Aug 15, 2017 6 mins

Development Tools Open Source Technology Industry

What is ACI? Microsoft’s Azure Container Instances explained

The “container as a service” lets you rapidly create and launch containerized applications, including from Kubernetes, without any overhead and with an easily scriptable set of commands

By Simon Bisson

Aug 1, 2017 6 mins

Microsoft Azure PaaS Technology Industry