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February 25, 2016 1 min read

Microsoft to acquire Xamarin, a leader in mobile app development

Yesterday, Microsoft announced an agreement to acquire Xamarin, a leading platform provider for mobile app development.

March 26, 2016 2 min read

SocialDice: Revolutionizing talent recruitment in the the Middle East

For rapidly-growing, Middle Eastern small- to medium-sized businesses, hiring the best employees is a challenge.

December 8, 2016 1 min read

Now available: Microsoft R Server 9.0 with support for Spark 2.0

This week Microsoft released Microsoft R Server (MRS) version 9.

May 8, 2017 4 min read

Connect with Microsoft at OSCON 2017

Some of the 3,000 open source contributors from across Microsoft are at OSCON this week, to focus on how the open source ecosystem is playing a major role in technology innovation, from artificial intelligence and IoT to microservices and containers.

July 7, 2017 2 min read

Visual Studio Code extension for Arduino is now open source

This week, Microsoft announced that the Arduino extension for Visual Studio Code is now open source.

Project updates October 13, 2017 4 min read

Open Source Weekly #1

This is our first edition of the Open Source Weekly, a roundup of recent open source related community news, product announcements, popular docs, and demos from around Microsoft.

Project updates October 20, 2017 3 min read

Open Source Weekly #2

This is our second edition of the Open Source Weekly, a roundup of recent open source related community news, product announcements, popular docs, and demos from around Microsoft.

Project updates April 25, 2018 1 min read

Get started with Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Azure for free

Red Hat and Microsoft are now offering Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Azure for enterprise developers with Azure free accounts and for Visual Studio subscribers using the Azure cloud.

Tutorials and demos May 22, 2018 2 min read

How to create a custom VSTS agent on Azure ACI with Terraform

Open source tools, like Terraform and Ansible, can be leveraged to implement “infrastructure as code,” making it easier to continuously build and deploy cloud infrastructure across your applications.

a flow for how to continuously build and deploy Azure infrastructure for the applications running on Azure

Tutorials and demos May 22, 2018 6 min read

Tutorial: CI/CD for Azure using Terraform, Ansible and VSTS

This is part 1 of a 2-part series demonstrating how to continuously build and deploy Azure infrastructure for the applications running on Azure.

Tutorials and demos May 23, 2018 8 min read

Tutorial: Immutable infrastructure for Azure, using VSTS, Terraform, Packer and Ansible

This is part 2 of a 2-part series on CI/CD for “infrastructure as code” on Azure.

June 30, 2021 7 min read

Journey to optimize large scale transformer model inference with ONNX Runtime

With its resource-efficient and high-performance nature, ONNX Runtime helped us meet the need of deploying a large-scale multi-layer generative transformer model for code, a.