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Microsoft Announces a Public Preview of Python Support for Azure Functions
At the recent Connect() event, Microsoft announced the public preview of Python support in Azure Functions. Developers can build functions using Python 3.6, based upon the open-source Functions 2.0 runtime and publish them to a Consumption plan.
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Microsoft Updates Azure Event Grid with Event Domains, Advanced Filtering Features and More
With Event Grid, customers can manage all their event in one place in Azure. Recently, Microsoft announced enhancements to this service with two new features, advanced filters, and Event Domains. Furthermore, the team responsible for Event Grid has been working to improve the developer experience, and has made Event Grid available in more regions.
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Microsoft Joins Open Invention Network with the Aim to Protect Linux and Open Source
Erich Andersen, corporate vice president and chief IP counsel at Microsoft, has announced that Microsoft is joining the Open Invention Network (OIN). This brings it over 60,000 issued patents from Microsoft, aiming to help make its license network even stronger for the benefit of the open source community.
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Microsoft Announces Several Updates to Azure Cosmos DB Features
Microsoft has announced multiple updates to Azure Cosmos DB, their globally distributed, massively scalable, multi-model database service. The announcements include features around support for globally scaled multi-master, the addition of a Cassandra API, and price-lowering options with reserved capacity.
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Microsoft Bing Gets Performance Boost from .NET Core 2.1
After moving Microsoft search engine Bing to .NET Core 2.1, internal server latency dropped by 34%, writes Microsoft engineer Mukul Sabharwal, mostly thanks to improvements contributed by the .NET community.
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Microsoft Driver Module Framework Aims to Ease Windows Driver Development
Windows driver developers should now have an easier way to create simple and structured drivers, as well as to share code amongst drivers, using the new Microsoft Driver Module Framework (DMF), which has been recently open sourced.
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Microsoft Quantum Katas Help Developers Discover Quantum Computing with Q#
Based on the idea of code katas, Microsoft has open-sourced a new project called Quantum Katas, that aims to help developers move their first steps in quantum computing using the Q# language. Quantum Katas are a set of programming exercises of growing complexity that provide immediate feedback to learners.
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Visual Studio Code 1.25 Sports New Grid Layout and Outline View
Visual Studio Code 1.25 brings a host of new features aimed to improve customizability and developer productivity, including a new fully custom 2x2 grid layout and outline view.
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Microsoft to Acquire GitHub for $7.5 Billion
Microsoft has announced an agreement to acquire GitHub, the software development platform and web-based hosting service for version control using Git. The deal should close later in the year, and both parties have stated that GitHub will remain an open platform that is committed to supporting developers using any tools and deploying to any platform.
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Latest Roundup of EE4J Activities for Jakarta EE
There has been a recent flurry of EE4J activity as the Eclipse Foundation is positioning Jakarta EE as the new home for cloud native Java. Numerous EE4J projects have been proposed, created, or are under creation review, and Microsoft has joined the Jakarta EE working group.
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US Supreme Court Declares Microsoft Case Moot, Microsoft Delivers Emails to US Government
After the United States Congress passed the CLOUD Act, the United States Justice Department dropped its previous request for a search warrant. The United States Supreme Court then declared the Microsoft email case moot. The Justice Department went back to court, however, and got a new search warrant based on the new law to replace the one it originally got in 2013.
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Microsoft Embeds Artificial Intelligence Platform in Windows 10 Update
The next Windows 10 update opens the way for the integration of artificial intelligence functionalities within Windows applications. Developers will be able to integrate pre-trained deep-learning models converted to the ONNX framework in their Windows applications.
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Microsoft Opens Its Quantum Development Kit to macOS and Linux
After making its Quantum Development Kit available to developers last December, Microsoft is now announcing its first major update, including support for macOS and Linux, interoperability with Python, and more.
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Developers Ask: Can I Legally Use The "Fluent UI" Or Ribbon Design?
It was recently reported that Corel lost a patent lawsuit regarding the "fluent UI" or ribbon design. This is the UI that you see in MS Office products that replaces the traditional menu + toolbar design popular since the 1990s. This has many developers concerned about their own applications.
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Intel Found That Spectre and Meltdown Fix Has a Performance Hit of 0-21%
Microsoft, Red Hat and Intel have published their performance evaluation of the impact Meltdown and Spectre mitigation has on various systems.