Microsoft’s Visual Studio Online now available for preview
Microsoft has launched Visual Studio Online for public preview at the Ignite 2019 conference.
Visual Studio Online provides managed, on-demand development environments that can be used for long-term projects, to prototype a new feature for instance, or for short-term tasks such as reviewing pull... Read more
Microsoft launches Endpoint Manager
Microsoft has launched Endpoint Manager to improve consistency, unification and security around device management, and in doing so enable 'the modern workforce'.
Bringing together ConfigMgr and Intune
Microsoft’s Endpoint Manager brings together System Centre Configuration Manager (ConfigMg... Read more
Microsoft signs agreement with Oracle to contribute to OpenJDK
Microsoft has officially signed the Oracle Contributor Agreement in order to contribute to OpenJDK, the open source implementation of the Java Platform.
Contributing to Java development
According to a message to the OpenJDK mailing list from Bruno Borges, product management for Java in Micros... Read more
Office 365 phishing campaign uses fake voicemails
Cybercriminals are constantly finding new ways to steal data
from victims. For example, a new phishing campaign uses fake voicemail
messages to convince targets to surrender their Office 365 credentials.
The campaign was discovered by McAfee security researchers, reports SiliconAngle.
The cam... Read more
‘Microsoft adds machine reading to Search’
Microsoft is about to add machine reading functions to Microsoft Search in order to provide more specific information to users. Machine reading is the automatic understanding of text by means of computer vision and natural language understanding, among other things.
When reading texts with the a... Read more
Microsoft Azure Sphere publicly available next year
Azure Sphere, a Linux-based microcontroller (MCU) and associated cybersecurity service, will become generally available in February 2020. Microsoft announced this during the IoT Solutions World Congress.
Azure Sphere was earlier called Project Sopris. With this project, Microsoft wanted to devel... Read more
Microsoft focuses on IoT and edge with new operating systems
Microsoft has a vision, namely that of the Intelligent Cloud and the Intelligent Edge. To realize this vision, the company has launched a series of new operating systems and products to support use cases within the Internet of Things (IoT) and edge computing.
Microsoft now offers a version of i... Read more
Nvidia partners with Ericsson, Red Hat and Microsoft for 5G networks
Nvidia, mainly known for their GPU-solutions, has announced partnerships with Ericsson, Red Hat and Microsoft. These partnerships should enable Nvidia to venture into 5G and help create high-performance Radio Access Networks.
Ericsson
The partnership with Ericsson concerns a collaboration on ... Read more
Microsoft and Pivotal launch Azure Spring Cloud
Microsoft and Pivotal Software have made a new service called Azure Spring Cloud available as a private preview. This fully managed and production-ready Azure cloud service can be used to build scalable microservices without having to think about the supporting IT infrastructure.
The service is... Read more
Microsoft introduces portable rugged Azure Data Box Edge
Microsoft has expanded its Azure Data Box family with a
new rugged version of the device that fits in a backpack. This concerns the
rugged Azure Data Box Edge, which can be used to move data to and from Azure.
The Azure Data Box family was made available in Europe in
2018. Earlier this month, M... Read more