At the end of March, Microsoft Azure announced Azure Stack HCI solutions are now available to customers who want to run virtualized applications on modern hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI). This enables a decrease in expenses and better performance.
Since the launch of Azure Cosmos DB in 2017 Microsoft has been rolling out improvements. Built with global distribution and horizontal scale as its key focus, Azure Cosmos DB provides support for both NoSQL and OSS APIs alike.
Xamarin Forms 3.6 was released on schedule in March, ready for we expect to be the spring release of Xamarin Forms 4.0. Microsoft is keeping up steady upgrades on Xamarin with updates available every 6 weeks. In fact, Xamarin Forms 3.6 saw more than 40…
In December, the first Visual Studio 2019 preview was released. The release candidate became available in February and the general release is scheduled for 2nd April, with future releases expected throughout the year. If you would like to make use of the RC, you can…
Just six months on from the launch of Azure DevOps, Azure DevOps Server 2019 has been broadly released. Microsoft made the announcement on 5th March and it means its power, previously only existing on the cloud is now available for installation in the end user’s…
With the announcement in September of SQL Server 2019 in public preview, we have been keeping an eye out for further information on what to expect. With the release looming, change is certainly ahead. Here we take a look at some key trends and changes…
Microsoft has just announced support for .NET Core 1.0 and .NET Core 1.1 will end on the 27th June. The three-year support began with the release of .NET Core 1.0 in the summer of 2016 and version 1.1 fits within this framework. Now is the…
The annual Microsoft Build conference has been announced for 6-8 May 2019. Billed as “Microsoft’s premier event for developers,” the conference will take place in Seattle, USA and is a chance for developers to experience the latest tools and technologies. As with last year, sessions…
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