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October 20, 2014

Microsoft delivers the industry’s complete cloud

September 4, 2014

New Lenovo Devices Transform to Fit the Board Room, Game Room and Beyond

June 4, 2014

Azure HDInsight now supports Hadoop 2.4 as part of helping make data work for everyone

The massive scale, power, elasticity and low cost of storage makes the cloud the best place to deploy Hadoop – one of the reasons Microsoft has invested heavily in its cloud-based Hadoop solution Azure HDInsight. It combines the best of open source with the flexibility of cloud deployment.

April 15, 2014

Microsoft delivers data platform for the era of ambient intelligence

Announces Internet of Things cloud service, announces “big data in a box” appliance and showcases real-time performance throughout the platform.

April 2, 2014

Building the Mobile Workplace with Windows and Windows Phone

March 31, 2014

Developers: Create customer-ranked auto suggest using Bing Maps and Azure Mobile Services

Over on the Bing Dev Center Team blog, Bing Maps technology specialist Ricky Brundritt walks developers through the steps needed to create a customer-ranked auto suggest service with their maps by using Bing Maps and Azure Mobile Services.

March 31, 2014

Schneider Electric leverages Azure to offer cloud-based software dev capabilities

March 27, 2014

Azure Active Directory Premium identity and access management service available in April

Amongst the big announcements coming out of San Francisco Thursday is that the Azure Active Directory (AD) Premium identity and access management service will be available in April. Azure AD provides a rich standards-based platform that enables developers to deliver authentication and access control to their applications, based on centralized policy and rules.

March 27, 2014

Satya Nadella: Mobile First, Cloud First Press Briefing

Remarks by Satya Nadella, Chief Executive Officer, San Francisco, Calif., March 27, 2014

March 26, 2014

Microsoft Azure the perfect solution for on-demand video service blinkbox

Leave it to the cloud to make even movie viewing a better experience. That’s what Microsoft Azure did for blinkbox and the streaming service’s million monthly users.