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From low cost to enterprise grade, here are the top 5 reasons to choose SQL Server for data management and analytics: Enterprise grade: Increase performance with greater security, scale, availability and mission-critical support. Most widely used: Enjoy the resources, applications and partner ecosystem of the…

dotnetConf is back! You can join the live stream for 3 days of free online content June 7th – 9th featuring speakers from the .NET Community and Microsoft product teams. These are the experts in their field and it’s an opportunity to ask your questions…

Microsoft’s recent acquisition of Xamarin has caused some to wonder what this will mean for the world of app development. The good news is that this is a positive direction for the .NET platform as a whole. Find out more in the latest Ballard Chalmers…

At last week’s BizTalk 360 Integrate 2016 conference in London, Microsoft shared its vision to enable seamless integration among enterprise applications across cloud-native and hybrid deployments. Adding to this point on the Azure Blog, Microsoft says, “We remain focused on delivering a hybrid integration platform…

Microsoft has announced the release schedule for .NET Core, the open source, cross-platform implementation of the .NET programming platform: .NET Core and ASP.NET Core 1.0 RC2 runtime and libraries will be available in mid-May. Tooling will be Preview 1 and bundled with this release. .NET…

SQL Server 2005 end of life began on April 12th 2016, so to get support from Microsoft it’s time to upgrade your SQL Server 2005 instances if you haven’t already. There are several upgrade options available. Please see this Microsoft page for more information or…

At yesterday’s Future of SharePoint event, Microsoft announced general availability of SharePoint 2016 and unveiled a new cloud-first, mobile-first vision and roadmap to “empower people, teams and organizations to intelligently discover, share and collaborate on content from anywhere and on any device.“ In this short…

SharePoint is going mobile with a new app, providing users access to their content from mobiles and tablets whilst on the go. SharePoint Mobile arrives first on iOS, followed by versions for Windows and Android in the second half of 2016. SharePoint Mobile is here…