Microsoft launched the Azure service just over eight years ago in a bid to play catchup with Amazon Web Services. And it has succeeded. Azure is now the No. 2 cloud service, behind AWS. Just how far ...

The ability to embrace U-SQL jobs via authoring, scripting, extensibility via the VSCode environment and using C# is the key to this tooling preview. Visual Studio Code is jumping into the Big Data ...

At Build 2023 today, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Deployment Environments. This capability helps developers and infrastructure admins play nice with each other. Here's the ...

Making games is more accessible than it ever has been. There's now a myriad of game engines to choose from, most of them for free, and an equally important accessibility of storefronts in the PC space ...

Microsoft Corp. is trying to make life easier for generative artificial intelligence developers, with a host of updates to its developer tooling today. One of the most welcome updates for generative ...

Microsoft Azure DevOps is software that uses modern agile methodologies and definitions to help track, plan and collaborate. There are five separate services included with Azure DevOps, and each can ...

From immutable ledgers in SQL Azure to in-memory cache in Cosmos DB, Microsoft is adding more features to its Azure data platform. If you’re building cloud-native applications you need a reliable, ...

There’s an amazing amount of video out there right now. Sure, there are the animal clips and viral videos that get hundreds or millions of views on YouTube. But there is also security footage and ...

For the kick-off of its annual Tech Ed user conference, being held this week in Houston, Microsoft has released a bevy of tools and services to help administrators connect their internal operations to ...

Microsoft unveiled on Wednesday refreshed versions of its Windows Azure software development kit and Azure tools for Visual Studio, which support the planned Windows Azure cloud services platform. The ...