I’m so excited to announce that the next episode of Azure OpenDev, our live technical series featuring open source community leaders, will be streaming live on October 25 at 9:00 AM (Pacific Time). This time we’re featuring DevOps, which increases business agility by delivering business value to customers faster. You’ll learn how to combine leading...

With the increased popularity of serverless, we hear from developers from all kinds of backgrounds and preferences. Many of them are building truly impressive serverless applications. The innovative scenarios for which they are using our platform constantly amaze us.

Azure Service Fabric is the foundational microservices and orchestration platform that powers core Azure infrastructure. At the Microsoft //build conference earlier this year we announced the general availability of Windows Server container orchestration for Service Fabric. Today, we're excited to announce the general availability of Service Fabric...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as one of the most disruptive forces behind the digital transformation of business. Today, at Microsoft Ignite 2017, as we engage in conversations about digital transformation with over 25,000 customers and partners, I am pleased to share some of our latest and most exciting innovations in AI development pla...

Up until recently, software development has been revolving around the concept of a server. Provisioning, maintaining, and scaling applications has been something that developers needed to spend a lot of time and effort on.

We released .NET Core updates for macOS High Sierra Support and additional quality fixes. You can download and install the update for Windows, macOS and Linux. This update is for .NET Core 1.0 and 1.1. The initial .NET Core 2.0 release includes similar improvements, so is not being updated with this release.

Today at the Ignite 2017 conference in Florida, we announced a range of new monitoring and analytics capabilities in Azure bringing together application and infrastructure monitoring in a unified curated overview in Azure Monitor. We are significantly optimizing your experience with the new log analytics, metrics exploration, application performanc...

This post describes the new WPF and accessibility features and improvements in .NET Framework 4.7.1. You can try out these features by downloading the Developer Pack, described in the Welcome to the .NET Framework 4.7.1 Early Access blog post.

As part of our commitment to providing customers with a platform for their most demanding, mission-critical workloads, I’m excited to announce expanded capabilities for Microsoft’s global cloud infrastructure. Starting today, customers can begin using Azure Availability Zones in preview to build highly available applications. Availability Zones inc...

Last year, we highlighted the new extensibility points for our source control providers. These hooks allowed them to take advantage of our start page and status bar to provide their users a more integrated experience in Visual Studio. Two of our partners, VisualSVN and Perforce, have taken advantage of this opportunity and we’re excited to be able ...