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The .NET platform was launched back in February 2002 into a cloudless world. Despite not being initially designed with cloud in mind it managed to thrive and continues to do so today. SearchCloudApplications spoke to Omar Khan, Microsoft’s general manager of developer platforms, in an exclusive two-part interview to discuss this and the evolution of .NET.
In part one the interview focusses on the overall .NET ecosystem and Microsoft’s philosophy about how the framework fits into the modern world of cloud, mobile, iOS and Android: Microsoft .NET framework: Still viable in the cloud computing age?

In part two the discussion delves into the new features and technologies of specific products, including Xamarin, TypeScript and SQL Server: Microsoft .NET framework tools chief discusses platform’s future.

Source: SearchCloudApplications

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If you work in the finance industry you may be interested to know that Microsoft’s Cloud complies with guidance released by UK regulators.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the conduct regulator for 56,000 financial services firms and financial markets in the UK, released this finalised guidance document for the sector in July. As an independent public body funded entirely by the firms it regulates, the purpose of the guidance is to clarify the requirements on firms when outsourcing to the cloud and other third-party IT services.

The FCA found “no fundamental reason why cloud services (including public cloud services) cannot be implemented.”

Microsoft has welcomed the FCA’s findings and to help firms’ compliance with regulation, it has released this support paper called “Enabling Compliance: Microsoft’s approach to the FCA’s finalised cloud guidance“.

Source: Microsoft

“It’s not often that a service pack release for Microsoft SQL Server deserves as much attention — let alone a keynote announcement — as the first service pack for SQL Server 2016 does.” This was the comment made by online magazine SQLMag in a recent article, referencing Scott Guthrie’s (Executive VP for Cloud and Enterprise at Microsoft) keynote at last month’s Connect(); 2016.

The reason this particular Service Pack is receiving so much attention is because it makes innovation more accessible to all applications by unlocking key Enterprise Edition features across all editions of SQL Server 2016, showing that the product is moving into a more unified development model.

Previously, SQL Server had locked down many of its key features, such as In-Memory OLTP, for the Enterprise Edition only. With this Service Pack developers can now build to incorporate such features because it delivers a common programming surface across all editions – no application re-write is necessary.

You can try SQL Server 2016 SP1 for yourself on Azure Virtual Machine here.

Source: SQLMag.com