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Microsoft Launches VSCode.Dev, Visual Studio Code in the Browser
Microsoft has launched the Cloud-based version of its Visual Studio Code editor through the vscode.dev domain, which offers a lightweight version of the editor which can be run right out from the browser with no installation.
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F# 6 Introduces Resumable Code, Improvements to Pattern Matching and Tooling, and More
F# 6 brings a wealth of new features to the language, library, and tooling aimed at improving performance and making it simpler for programmers wishing to switch to it.
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Microsoft Releases Zone-Redundant Storage for Azure Disk Storage into General Availability
Earlier this year, Microsoft introduced the preview of the zone-redundant storage (ZRS) option for Azure managed disks to further improve the reliability of their infrastructure, and now it is released into general availability (GA).
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Need Help Tracking Cloud Emissions? Microsoft Previews Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability
At the recent Inspire 2021 conference, Microsoft announced the preview of Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability, a new service to help companies measure and manage their carbon emissions, set sustainability goals and take measurable action.
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Microsoft Has Now Its Own Linux Distribution Builder, CBL-Mariner
CBL-Mariner is Microsoft's internal tool to create Linux distributions. Meant to power Microsoft's own Cloud infrastructure, CBL-Mariner distributions aim to consume limited disk and memory resources, as well as offer minimal attack surface.
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Microsoft Retires Azure Blockchain
Microsoft recently announced that Azure Blockchain will be retired on September 10. Microsoft credited industry changes and declined interest in the product as main reasons for discontinuing the marketing of Azure Blockchain. Microsoft partners with ConsenSys to offer a migration path for existing customers. ConsenSys’s Quorum Blockchain Service claims to be fully compatible with Azure Blockchain.
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Microsoft's ZeRO-Infinity Library Trains 32 Trillion Parameter AI Model
Microsoft recently open-sourced ZeRO Infinity, an addition to their open-source DeepSpeed AI training library that optimizes memory use for training very large deep-learning models. Using ZeRO-Infinity, Microsoft trained a model with 32 trillion parameters on a cluster of 32 GPUs, and demonstrated fine-tuning of a 1 trillion parameter model on a single GPU.
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Microsoft Will Retire Internet Explorer 11 in June 2022 for Certain Versions of Windows 10
Microsoft recently announced that the Internet Explorer 11 desktop application will be retired on June 15, 2022, for certain versions of Windows 10. Legacy Internet Explorer-based websites and applications will continue to work with Microsoft Edge’s built-in Internet Explorer mode.
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Microsoft at Work to Bring eBPF to Windows
Microsoft has announced it is working on bringing eBPF to Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 and later to support use cases such as denial-of-service protection and observability.
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Microsoft Previews Rust For Windows
Microsoft announced the preview of Rust for Windows, which aims to enable creating Rust apps for Windows using any Windows API.
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Microsoft Releases AI Training Library ZeRO-3 Offload
Microsoft recently open-sourced ZeRO-3 Offload, an extension of their DeepSpeed AI training library that improves memory efficiency while training very large deep-learning models. ZeRO-3 Offload allows users to train models with up to 40 billion parameters on a single GPU and over 2 trillion parameters on 512 GPUs.
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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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PagerDuty Adds AWS DevOps Guru and Microsoft Teams Integrations
PagerDuty has released a number of new updates and enhancements to their incident response platform. This includes new integrations with Amazon DevOps Guru, AWS Control Tower, and Microsoft Teams. Other improvements include improvements to mapping failures back to changes, automatic triggers, and content-based alert grouping.
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Writing Native Windows Apps with React and WinUI 3
The latest releases of React Native Windows, a Microsoft framework for building native Windows 10 applications, upgrade to the latest React Native version (0.64) and experimentally support WinUI 3 (in preview). Microsoft also maintains react-native-macos for native MacOS applications.
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.NET News Roundup - Week of Mar 8th, 2021
The last week was an eventful one for the .NET community, with the release of the second preview for .NET 6, ASP.NET Core, and EF Core 6. InfoQ examined these and a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of March 8th, 2021.