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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
analysis

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 05, 2018 6 mins
Cloud Computing Software Development Technology Industry
analysis

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
analysis

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
analysis

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 08, 2018 7 mins
Machine Learning Microsoft Azure Technology Industry
analysis

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 01, 2018 6 mins
Software Development Technology Industry Web Development
analysis

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
analysis

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
analysis

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
analysis

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
analysis

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
analysis

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
analysis

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 06, 2018 6 mins
Microsoft Azure Serverless Computing Technology Industry
analysis

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
analysis

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 02, 2018 6 mins
Cloud Computing Software Development Technology Industry
analysis

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
analysis

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
analysis

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
analysis

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
analysis

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 07, 2017 5 mins
Data Visualization Small and Medium Business Technology Industry
analysis

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
analysis

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
analysis

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
analysis

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
analysis

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
analysis

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
analysis

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 05, 2017 7 mins
Cloud Computing Data Management Technology Industry
analysis

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
analysis

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
analysis

.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
analysis

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 01, 2017 6 mins
Microsoft Azure PaaS Technology Industry
analysis

Ease into Kubernetes on Microsoft Azure

With Kubernetes baked into Azure Container Service, it’s easy to spin up Kubernetes-managed container clusters that tap native Azure services

By Simon Bisson
Jul 25, 2017 7 mins
Cloud Computing Microsoft Azure PaaS
analysis

Windows 10 S: A Windows Enterprise in waiting?

Microsoft’s locked-down, Windows Store-restricted version of Windows could have a bright future in business

By Simon Bisson
Jul 18, 2017 7 mins
Careers Small and Medium Business Software Development
analysis

A cloud in your datacenter? Azure Stack arrives

Microsoft brings core Azure cloud services and subscription pricing to the datacenter, albeit with heavy hardware requirements

By Simon Bisson
Jul 11, 2017 6 mins
IaaS Microsoft Azure Technology Industry
analysis

Get started with the Windows Subsystem for Linux

Here’s what WSL is all about: getting the tools you need to do cross-platform development and management on your PC

By Simon Bisson
Jul 04, 2017 6 mins
Small and Medium Business Software Development Technology Industry
analysis

How to port your PC software to the Windows Store

You should deliver the Windows Universal Platform style of applications to users of Windows 10, and especially users of the new Windows 10 S

By Simon Bisson
Jun 27, 2017 6 mins
Small and Medium Business Software Development
analysis

What you need to know about Power BI now

Power BI is now much more than an Excel query tool. Here’s how to use it for your business data analysis and reporting

By Simon Bisson
Jun 20, 2017 6 mins
Analytics Data Visualization Technology Industry
analysis

Forget the GUI: The return of the command line

Managing Windows at the scale of the cloud means going back to the command line with PowerShell and Bash

By Simon Bisson
Jun 13, 2017 6 mins
Careers Devops Small and Medium Business
analysis

Inside Windows Server’s containerized Linux future

Microsoft’s Windows Server strategy is about to change, with faster updates, a lot of Linux love, and a devops focus

By Simon Bisson
Jun 06, 2017 6 mins
Cloud Computing Devops Software Development
analysis

How Cosmos DB ensures data consistency in the global cloud

Microsoft’s new database provides three cutting-edge approaches designed for applications that span geographic regions

By Simon Bisson
May 30, 2017 6 mins
Cloud Computing Data Management Databases
analysis

Microsoft devs: How to create apps for alien platforms

The integration of Xamarin tools into Visual Studio, plus new tools for cross-platform testing, have transformed the Windows-only Microsoft IDE into a universal tool

By Simon Bisson
May 24, 2017 7 mins
Development Tools Small and Medium Business Technology Industry
analysis

Cortana moves way beyond being a personal assistant

Combined with Microsoft Graph, Project Rome, and Bot Framework, the personal assistant technology looks to reinvent work across devices

By Simon Bisson
May 18, 2017 7 mins
Cloud Computing Small and Medium Business Technology Industry
analysis

Microsoft Graph and Microsoft Teams reshape Office

Microwork enablement through bots and chatops apps could be the best thing Microsoft Office has done for the office in a long time

By Simon Bisson
May 10, 2017 6 mins
Small and Medium Business Software Development
analysis

Microsoft’s novel approach to securing IoT

Project Sopris looks to create a set of secure layers that protect both hardware and their communications, and it can refresh a compromised device

By Simon Bisson
May 03, 2017 5 mins
Careers Endpoint Protection Technology Industry
analysis

R and Python drive SQL Server 2017 into machine learning

Microsoft expands R support and adds Python for developers who aren’t also data scientists

By Simon Bisson
Apr 26, 2017 4 mins
Databases SQL Technology Industry
analysis

Microsoft tools coalesce for serverless computing

Azure Functions, Logic Apps, Azure Stack, and .Net come together for the next stage of PaaS both in the cloud and on-premises

By Simon Bisson
Apr 19, 2017 6 mins
Development Tools Serverless Computing Technology Industry
analysis

Microsoft’s new love for Android is no betrayal

Windows Mobile fans have cried foul, but the truth is that Microsoft has brought that desirable Microsoft experience to the mobile platform most people prefer

By Simon Bisson
Apr 05, 2017 6 mins
Small and Medium Business Software Development Technology Industry
analysis

Business analysts: Go no-code with Microsoft PowerApps

The demise of Visual Studio LightSwitch shouldn’t prevent power users from building line-of-business apps; use PowerApps and Flow instead

By Simon Bisson
Mar 29, 2017 6 mins
Software Development
analysis

If IFTTT can’t, then Microsoft Flow can

Miss Yahoo Pipes? Microsoft's low-code tool for application mashups does a better job in meeting business needs

By Simon Bisson
Mar 22, 2017 6 mins
APIs Software Development
analysis

.Net Framework or .Net Core? When to use which

With so many .Net implementations, which should you use? And what do all those new names mean?

By Simon Bisson
Mar 15, 2017 6 mins
Development Tools Mobile Development Web Development
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