Developers

Connect your things with the Azure IoT Gateway SDK, which has now been released to general availability.

As more businesses turn to the Internet of Things (IoT), security and privacy are often top of mind. Our goal at Microsoft is to keep our customers’ IoT solutions secure.

Find out more about the general availability of Azure IoT Hub device management.

Today, I’m excited to announce three new Azure enhancements to enable you to run the largest enterprise workloads, offer you best-in-class support for those workloads, and deliver it at the lowest possible cost.

Earlier today we published the paper “Total Cost of (Non) Ownership (TCO) of NoSQL databases in 2016.” comparing TCO of hosting OSS NoSQL databases on-premises and Azure Virtual Machines, and using managed NoSQL database as a service like Azure DocumentDB.

We’re excited to introduce a public preview of the DocumentDB Emulator, which provides a local development experience for the Azure DocumentDB service.

We announced the general availability of Azure Application Insights (previously Visual Studio Application Insights) and launched our new pricing structure.

We announced the preview of Azure App Service on Linux making it easier for PHP and Node.js developers to run their web applications natively on Linux and thus making it easier to work directly with .htaccess files or avoid using modified extensions or code.

Today organizations are turning to the cloud not only to accelerate – but to transform – their business. Part of the Azure PaaS portfolio, Azure Functions, offers a serverless compute experience for rapid application development and operational agility.

We’re excited today to announce general availability of the Azure N-Series of Azure Virtual Machines as of December 1, 2016.

We are thrilled by the surprisingly large number of bots, tools, channels and the overall vibrancy and excitement within the developer community since our launch of Bot Framework on Github in March. The democratization of AI and the advancement of conversational canvasses are well underway.

Today, Microsoft announced a new partnership with OpenAI, a nonprofit AI research organization co-founded by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever.