Microsoft’s Windows 10 browser is about to run apps offline. Here’s how to take advantage of its new features in your web apps
How to use Azure’s PaaS tools to build cloud-hosted apps that run on your mobile devices and in your browsers
Businesses can get a lot out of the blockchain that powers bitcoins, and Microsoft’s Coco Framework aims to give them fast and private access to the underlying technologies
Microsoft is experimenting with focused tools to let you dip into work as needed. Some experiments end up moving Office 365 to the next level
Microsoft extends its serverless Azure platform to handle events via an infrastructureless publish-and-subscribe service
In the cloud and on all your devices, the latest .Net release will give you a common framework for all your enterprise code
The “container as a service” lets you rapidly create and launch containerized applications, including from Kubernetes, without any overhead and with an easily scriptable set of commands
With Kubernetes baked into Azure Container Service, it’s easy to spin up Kubernetes-managed container clusters that tap native Azure services
Microsoft’s locked-down, Windows Store-restricted version of Windows could have a bright future in business
Microsoft brings core Azure cloud services and subscription pricing to the datacenter, albeit with heavy hardware requirements
Here’s what WSL is all about: getting the tools you need to do cross-platform development and management on your PC
You should deliver the Windows Universal Platform style of applications to users of Windows 10, and especially users of the new Windows 10 S
Power BI is now much more than an Excel query tool. Here’s how to use it for your business data analysis and reporting
Managing Windows at the scale of the cloud means going back to the command line with PowerShell and Bash
Microsoft’s Windows Server strategy is about to change, with faster updates, a lot of Linux love, and a devops focus
Microsoft’s new database provides three cutting-edge approaches designed for applications that span geographic regions
The integration of Xamarin tools into Visual Studio, plus new tools for cross-platform testing, have transformed the Windows-only Microsoft IDE into a universal tool
Combined with Microsoft Graph, Project Rome, and Bot Framework, the personal assistant technology looks to reinvent work across devices
Microwork enablement through bots and chatops apps could be the best thing Microsoft Office has done for the office in a long time
Project Sopris looks to create a set of secure layers that protect both hardware and their communications, and it can refresh a compromised device
Microsoft expands R support and adds Python for developers who aren’t also data scientists
Azure Functions, Logic Apps, Azure Stack, and .Net come together for the next stage of PaaS both in the cloud and on-premises
Windows Insider program is no longer for only consumers, so IT can now get a head start on new Windows 10—and Office—versions
Windows Mobile fans have cried foul, but the truth is that Microsoft has brought that desirable Microsoft experience to the mobile platform most people prefer
The demise of Visual Studio LightSwitch shouldn’t prevent power users from building line-of-business apps; use PowerApps and Flow instead
Miss Yahoo Pipes? Microsoft's low-code tool for application mashups does a better job in meeting business needs
With so many .Net implementations, which should you use? And what do all those new names mean?
If you want a public cloud's advantages but need to keep some data and functions on-premises, Microsoft has something for you
The possibility: A knowledge network that can map both the relationships among individuals and with their content
Real-world uses are emerging, but to gain broad deployment the HoloLens headsets and related gear must become a lot cheaper
The new Windows 10 SDK is all about moving beyond the Windows legacy, into the Universal Windows Platform, then the eventual multi-OS workflows
C# is the future for .NET developers, so it's time to limit Visual Basic’s use to on-premises legacy systems
Microsoft has made application containers available in Windows itself, not only in Windows 10's Linux subsystem
Microsoft’s serverless PaaS technology lets you develop cloud-smart applications
Microsoft is building new analytics tools to help companies better manage small and virtual teams
Open source R is key for big data analytics, and Microsoft has infused many of its tools with the language
One of Microsoft Azure's most important developer components is also its least-known: The scalable DocumentDB database
Microsoft’s enterprise reach is stretching beyond Windows into the wider world of cross-platform computing and the cloud
Microsoft's Azure-based services are a good place to start with conversational computing, even outside Microsoft environments
Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection will let you detect and remediate the breaches your first line of defenses can't stop
Microsoft’s new collaboration is more than messaging—it’s a platform with three choices for integration into a work hub