Developers

Today, we are announcing the preview of Cloud Services (extended support), which is a new Azure Resource Manager (ARM) based deployment model for Azure Cloud Services.

This past year has shown us how important it is to be ready for the unexpected. I spent a lot of time talking with customers, and it was rewarding to hear their stories of using technology to respond quickly to changing business needs.

Each new year introduces new opportunities and challenges, but 2020 was exceptional. The pandemic massively disrupted retail organizations due to ongoing shelter-in-place orders and social distancing requirements. Consumers adapted, driving nine years’ worth of e-commerce growth in 90 days.

We are excited to share that Azure SQL Database is among the most popular databases of 2020 according to DB-Engines, who recently announced their DBMS of the Year award.

Since the start of the pandemic, Microsoft Healthcare Bot has been at the leading edge of helping organizations be more agile with the patient engagement.

Whether you are just embarking on your cloud journey or you are looking to maximize business value out of your existing cloud investments, you may want to leverage industry best practices and and technical guidance we have compiled in Azure documentation, from working with many

Digital transformation is accelerating at an incredible rate for consumers and employees alike, and the way we live and work has drastically changed.

Current market conditions demonstrate how heavily the world relies on technology to increase the resilience of the supply chain, and how important agility and data insights are to enable quick decision-making and shifts in strategy to serve rapidly changing needs.

Today, organizations are showing a growing appetite for solutions that provide a deeper understanding of not just assets, but also the complex interactions across environments.

Since its preview announcement, we’ve witnessed incredible excitement and adoption of Azure Synapse from our customers and partners.

Today, we are announcing the expansion of our mission-critical cloud for US Government with new capabilities in Azure Government, the expansion of Azure Government Secret, and the announcement of a new cloud to serve customers with top secret classified data—Azure Government Top Secret.

We would like to share that Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems.