Microsoft buys LinkedIn for $26 Billion
Microsoft has just announced that they are buying LinkedIn for $26.2 Billion. Jeff Weiner will remain as CEO, reporting to Satya Nadella. Why is LinkedIn … Read More
Azure Search Introduces New Service Tiers
Microsoft has just announced a series of new service tiers for Azure Search. The previously announced Basic tier has gone from preview to generally available. … Read More
Microsoft Canadian Data Centers Now Officially Open for Azure and Office 365
Microsoft has officially launched Canadian data centers in Toronto and and Quebec City. Azure and Office 365 are now available wit Dynamics CRM expected in … Read More
Azure Logic Apps will be the Pro Version of Microsoft Flow
Microsoft yesterday unveiled a brand new service called Microsoft Flow. Flow is an “If This Then That” (IFTTT) service that allows you to create cloud … Read More
Microsoft Unveils Yet another RAD Tool with Flow
Microsoft today introduced a new type of tool known in the industry as If This Then That (IFTTT) which allows for the creation of pseudo … Read More
Azure Container Service is now Generally Available
The Azure Container Service, which is Microsoft’s Docker service is now officially generally available. For those unfamiliar, Docker containers are virtual linux containers that wrap … Read More
Microsoft’s Cognitive Services Comes to Azure Media Services in Preview
Microsoft has been developing a set of services for speech, face and emotion recognition. Known previously as “Project Oxford”, these services have now been bundled … Read More
Express Route Now Supports Power BI
Microsoft Express Route is an Azure service that allows you to create private network connections between your data center and Azure to improve performance and … Read More
Microsoft Goes on Offense and Sues US Government over Access Requests
The US Government routinely requests cloud data providers such as Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft to turn over data as part of investigations. Over the … Read More
Microsoft Unveils Face, Speech and Emotion Recognition APIs as Microsoft Cognitive Services
Microsoft has been developing a set of APIs for speech, face and emotion recognition under the banner of Project Oxford for the past several months. … Read More