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Microsoft employees use SharePoint every day, so the company had to be careful when it came time to move its own 185,000 sites and portals to the cloud. See what Microsoft IT learned when it migrated the company to SharePoint Online on Office 365 in…

Microsoft has announced the full release of the Microsoft ODBC Driver 13.1 for SQL Server. The updated driver provides robust data access to Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Azure SQL Database for C/C++ based applications. For further details, visit the Microsoft SQL Server Blog. Source:…

International Data Corporation (IDC) recently released a report entitled “Worldwide Cloud Systems Management Software Market Shares, 2015: Year of Continued Expansion.” One of the key findings was the expectation that by the end of 2017, “…over 80% of enterprise IT organizations will commit to hybrid…

A problem with the cloud concept from an enterprise standpoint is that it can sometimes give rise to some sloppy thinking — a cloud is a cloud is a cloud, some people think. Nothing could be further from the truth. In the latest Ballard Chalmers blog…

Microsoft has announced today the general availability of Azure Logic Apps, Microsoft’s Integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS) offering that enables rapid, enterprise-grade, hybrid application connectivity. In the announcement, Microsoft says, “We want to enable you to move away from building fragmented, costly integration solutions to a more…

Today, Xamarin released a new version of its Android N Developer Preview, which features bindings to the final APIs of the Android N SDK. The new version includes several exciting features including multi-window UI, direct reply notifications, advanced memory and power optimisations, and more for…

Scott Hanselman is Microsoft’s Principal Program Manager and blogs on design patterns, software architecture, and development. In his latest blog he explores “dotnet new” with .NET Core: hanselman.com Source: Scott Hanselman via hanselman.com

This year’s Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) took place in Toronto, Canada from July 10th – 14th. A notable theme was the fourth industrial revolution – or Industry 4.0 – and the expectation of how this will inevitably ‘change the world.’ On Day 2 in…