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Announcing the Visual C++ Compiler November 2013 CTP
Last year in November, we released an out-of-band customer technology preview (CTP) of the Visual C++ compiler. It contained preview versions of C++11 features which we subsequently fully released in...
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Disabling ARR’s Instance Affinity in Windows Azure Web Sites
Editor's Note: This blog post was written by Erez Benari, Program Manager on the Windows Azure Web Sites Team.Setting up multiple instances of a website in Windows Azure Websites is a terrific way to...
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Business customers are choosing Windows 8.1 for mobility solutions
Today in New York we hosted an event with customers and app partners and talked about the role technology is playing in enabling mobility scenarios for businesses. When we think about mobility, it’s...
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Application Insights going fast
Overall, tire kicking on Application Insights is going well and the invitation codes continue to get used up pretty quickly. We’ve now got many hundreds of accounts enabled so I’m probably going to...
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Cumulative Update #7 for SQL Server 2012 SP1
Dear Customers, The 7 th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2012 SP1 is now available for download at the Microsoft Support site. Cumulative Update 7 contains all the SQL Server 2012 SP1 hotfixes...
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Cumulative Update #14 for SQL Server 2008 SP3
Dear Customers, The 14 th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3 is now available for download at the Microsoft Support site. Cumulative Update 14 contains all the hotfixes...
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Run more apps and show more tiles on your Surface 2 or high-dpi Windows 8.1...
I did a blog post a little while ago about getting real work done on a Surface 2 (ARM & RT) and I've learned a few interesting things since then. The Surface 2 has a great screen. Having 1920x1080p...
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SharePoint Conference 2014 – Cloud Developer Skills Jumpstart
This year, an MVP will conduct an all-day pre-conference training focusing on the key developer skills necessary to get ahead with building apps for both Office and SharePoint. Since the technologies...
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Backup the best defense against (Cri)locked files
Crilock – also known as CryptoLocker – is one notorious ransomware that's been making the rounds since early September. Its primary payload is to target and encrypt your files, such as your pictures...
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Automation–Automating Hybrid Clouds with Windows Azure and PowerShell (Part...
Hello Again!Time for Part 2 of the Automating Hybrid Clouds with Windows Azure and PowerShell blog series (find Part 1: Intro & TOC here). And yes, this post actually has PowerShell Examples! But...
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SharePoint Online introduces the Touch Design mobile experience
Mark Kashman (@mkashman) is a senior product manager on the SharePoint team.With the new SharePoint we brought important innovations for how users interact with SharePoint sites and content on mobile...
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Visual Studio Rename Refactor Helper for Visual Studio 2013
The C++ language is large and complex with context-sensitive syntax subtleties that make it difficult to create a reliable and fast rename refactoring tool. For years we wanted to include rename...
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Release history notes for Directory Synchronization
Did you ever want to know when new versions of Windows Azure Active Directory Sync tool is released and what those changes are? We have started tracking release history notes for new versions of...
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Visual Studio 2013 Survey
On October 17th 2013, we announced the General Availability (GA) of Visual Studio 2013. We would like to thank everyone who took the time to share their thoughts while testing the pre-releases of...
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My Server 2012 R2 Windows and Windows Phone apps
Hi, my name is Chungang Liu. I am a program manager with the Windows Server Essentials Team. Today, I am very pleased to announce that My Server 2012 R2 is available in the Windows Store and the...
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Real-time co-authoring in the Excel Web App: Why and how we did it
Recently, we released some exciting new features in the Excel Web App. One of the highlights is real-time co-authoring, which can change the way people work together on spreadsheets by allowing...
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What’s new for XAML and DirectX interop in Windows 8.1
In Windows 8 we enabled combining the high level UI capabilities of XAML and the low-level rendering power of DirectX within the same app using the three XAML-DirectX interop...
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Get your Windows Phone ready for Xbox One with the new SmartGlass app
Ahead of Friday’s release of Xbox One, the Xbox team today launched an all-new SmartGlass companion app for its next-gen game console. The app, available on both Windows phones and tablets, offers a...
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Download the Xbox One SmartGlass app and get ready for your Xbox One
This Friday is the launch of Xbox One. I am pretty stoked! I’ve got my “Day One Edition” coming. If you are like me and have an Xbox One on the way, you can get ready for your Xbox One by downloading...
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Resource Designer Tool – A walkthrough writing a DSC resource
At the heart of Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration are the resources. It is the resources which act behind the scenes for DSC to achieve its “make it so” philosophy. DSC ships with a number...
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