Tag: GitHub

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GitHub acquisition furthers Microsoft’s commitment to open source 

  • By Microsoft + Open Source, Microsoft’s commitment to open source is ingrained in our business. Investments in this space began several years ago and continue to be reinforced through technology decisions, partner momentum, customer adoption, and community contributions.

This week Microsoft announced an agreement to acquire GitHub, building on our partnership that has spanned the last…

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Now on GitHub: The Autonomous Driving Cookbook from Microsoft 

  • By Aditya Sharma, Aditya leads the Deep Learning & Robotics chapter of Microsoft Garage. He is also the lead Program Manager of Project Road Runner, an ADAS/AD initiative out of the Garage that’s behind AirSim autonomous driving and the AD cookbook. For his day job at Microsoft, Aditya works as a PM on the Azure Stack team.

At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. That’s…

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Open Source Weekly: New Python support, enterprise-scale Git, and more 

  • By Microsoft + Open Source, Microsoft’s commitment to open source is ingrained in our business. Investments in this space began several years ago and continue to be reinforced through technology decisions, partner momentum, customer adoption, and community contributions.

Docs.microsoft.com is home to thousands of pages of documentation, from Apache to Zendesk.  For technical documentation, API reference,…

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Now available: open source Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit 

  • By Microsoft + Open Source, Microsoft’s commitment to open source is ingrained in our business. Investments in this space began several years ago and continue to be reinforced through technology decisions, partner momentum, customer adoption, and community contributions.

This week Microsoft released the Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit version 2.0 out of beta. The toolkit, previously known as…

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Azure CLI 2.0 now generally available 

  • By Jose Miguel Parrella, José Miguel is an open source enthusiast and part of the Microsoft Azure team. For the last 10 years he has been developing enterprise-grade open source solutions for customers and partners in the Americas. He was a lead architect of Canaima 2.0 - the Venezuelan Linux distribution, a Debian Developer, published author and is a regular speaker in open source events across the world.

This week Microsoft announced the general availability Azure CLI 2.0, including the vm, acs, storage and network commands.…

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Microsoft at OSCON 2016 

  • By Mark Hill, Mark Hill is the Vice President for Open Source Sales and Marketing at Microsoft and responsible for growing the Microsoft business around the open source ecosystem globally and helping customers and partners derive value from a combination of Microsoft and open source technologies.

A planeload of open source enthusiasts from across Microsoft are joining the more than 4,200 participants at OSCON…

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Now on GitHub: Windows Azure Pack Connector 

  • By Jose Miguel Parrella, José Miguel is an open source enthusiast and part of the Microsoft Azure team. For the last 10 years he has been developing enterprise-grade open source solutions for customers and partners in the Americas. He was a lead architect of Canaima 2.0 - the Venezuelan Linux distribution, a Debian Developer, published author and is a regular speaker in open source events across the world.

Today the Microsoft IT team released the Windows Azure Pack Connector, a solution for Azure Pack, that provides…

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How to bring data to life with open source Power BI visuals 

  • By Microsoft + Open Source, Microsoft’s commitment to open source is ingrained in our business. Investments in this space began several years ago and continue to be reinforced through technology decisions, partner momentum, customer adoption, and community contributions.

When it comes to visuals, Power BI is open BI! The built-in visuals for the Power BI platform are…

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Updates to Node.js SDK for Azure Mobile Apps 

  • By Jose Miguel Parrella, José Miguel is an open source enthusiast and part of the Microsoft Azure team. For the last 10 years he has been developing enterprise-grade open source solutions for customers and partners in the Americas. He was a lead architect of Canaima 2.0 - the Venezuelan Linux distribution, a Debian Developer, published author and is a regular speaker in open source events across the world.

Last fall, Microsoft announced the first alpha release for the Node.js SDK for Azure App Service Mobile Apps.…

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Microsoft open sources Edge’s Chakra JavaScript engine 

  • By Microsoft + Open Source, Microsoft’s commitment to open source is ingrained in our business. Investments in this space began several years ago and continue to be reinforced through technology decisions, partner momentum, customer adoption, and community contributions.

Today, Microsoft open sourced the key components of the Chakra JavaScript engine that powers Microsoft Edge. The ChakraCore…