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Microsoft Introduces Microsoft Build of OpenJDK
Microsoft has introduced a preview release of Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, a new open-source downstream distribution of OpenJDK. Microsoft Build of OpenJDK supports x64 server and desktop environments on macOS, Linux, and Windows. Bruno Borges, principal program manager, Java Engineering Group at Microsoft, spoke to InfoQ about Microsoft Build of OpenJDK.
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Microsoft Announces Azure Monitor SQL Insights for Azure SQL in Public Preview
Recently Microsoft announced Azure Monitor SQL Insights for Azure SQL in public preview. With the preview, customers will get a flexible canvas for telemetry collection, analysis, and rich custom visualization.
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Microsoft Announces a Hologram-Based Mixed-Reality Communication Platform Called Microsoft Mesh
During the recent virtual Ignite conference, Microsoft announced Microsoft Mesh, an Azure-based cloud platform allowing developers to build immersive, multi-user, cross-platform mixed reality apps. Customers can leverage Mesh to enhance virtual meetings, conduct virtual design sessions, assist remote work better, learn together virtually, and host virtual social gatherings and meet-ups.
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.NET News Roundup - Week of Mar 1st, 2021
InfoQ examines a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of March 1st, 2021.
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Azure Arc-Enabled Machine Learning Is Now in Preview
Azure Arc is Microsoft's offering for allowing customers to bring Azure services and management to any infrastructure, including AWS and Google Cloud. This year, during the virtual Ignite conference, the company announced the preview of Azure Arc-enabled machine learning, which extends Azure machine learning capabilities to hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
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Microsoft Releases Azure AD My App and New Risk Detections for Identity Protection into GA
Microsoft recently released a few new Azure Active Directory (AD) features, namely My Apps "collections" and new "risk detections" capabilities, into general availability (GA). With these features, the company intends to simplifying identity and access management while also enhancing the customization and controls.
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Microsoft Releases Azure Attestation into General Availability
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of Azure Attestation, a unified solution for remotely verifying the trustworthiness of a platform and the integrity of the binaries running inside it.
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Microsoft Releases Azure Firewall Premium in Public Preview
Microsoft Azure Firewall is a managed, cloud-based network security service that protects your Azure Virtual Network resources. The company recently announced a preview release of a premium version of the cloud-based network security service.
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Microsoft Opens up Its Azure Quantum Platform for Public Preview
Announced at Ignite 2019, Azure Quantum is a full-stack, cloud ecosystem enabling access to diverse quantum hardware and software. Aimed at developers, researchers, and customers, Azure Quantum is now in public preview.
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Microsoft Announces Limited Access to Its Neural Text-to-Speech AI
Recently, Microsoft announced limited access to its neural text-to-speech AI called Custom Neural Voice. The service allows developers to create custom synthetic voices.
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Confluent Announces Strategic Alliance with Microsoft
Confluent, the company of the founders of Apache Kafka, recently announced a new strategic alliance between them and Microsoft to enable a more integrated experience between Confluent Cloud and the Azure platform.
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Microsoft Introduces Azure Health Bot
Microsoft recently introduced Azure Health Bot, an evolution of Microsoft Healthcare Bot that is becoming an Azure service with added functionalities. Built for developing virtual health care assistants, Azure Health Bot combines medical databases with natural language capabilities.
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No-Code App Development is Essential for Digital Transformation
Jennifer Cadence, a product marketing manager at Google, recently published an account of the state of no-code app development. In her post, Cadence breaks down why no-code platforms have become an essential part of digital transformation. She suggests that speed and agility, productivity and collaboration, and governance and security are the critical factors for these platforms' importance.
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Microsoft Announces Support for Azure Container Registry across Availability Zones in Public Preview
Microsoft recently announced the public preview for support of Azure Container Registry across Availability Zones. The Zone redundancy provides resiliency and high availability to a registry or replication resource (replica) in a specific region.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure Stack HCI
In a recent Azure blog post, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Stack HCI, the new subscription service for hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) from Microsoft Azure. With the GA of Azure Stack HCI, Microsoft brings together the familiarity and flexibility of on-premises virtualization with powerful new hybrid capabilities.