Announcements

Last November we introduced Microsoft’s Project Olympus – our next generation cloud hardware design and a new model for open source hardware development. Today, I’m excited to address the 2017 Open Compute Project (OCP) U.S.

There is a common thread in advancements in cloud computing – they enable a focus on applications rather than the machines running them.

Recently, we have improved the robustness of web page monitoring in Application Insights, and introduced the ability not to use cookies. Transmission is now more reliable in the face of throttling and network issues, and when a page is about to unload.

While the cloud may have initially raised some security concerns among enterprises, Microsoft is changing those dynamics.

We would like to announce that Azure SQL Database Threat Detection will be generally available in spring 2017 and share few customer experiences that demonstrate how Azure SQL Database Threat Detection provides an important layer of security built into the Azure SQL Database service.

Today, I am excited to announce the general availability of Managed Disks. With this PaaS-like support, you no longer need to be concerned with the complexity of storage management nor worry about storage as you scale.

We are excited to announce the public preview release of the Custom Speech Service from Microsoft Cognitive Services. The Custom Speech Service (formerly the Custom Recognition Intelligent Service) lets you customize Microsoft’s speech-to-text engine.

We are excited to announce the availability of an in-browser query tool that provides you an efficient way to execute queries on your Azure SQL Databases and Azure SQL Data Warehouses without leaving the Azure Portal.

Today we are excited to announce Azure DocumentDB SDK for Xamarin mobile platform, enabling mobile apps to interact directly with DocumentDB.

We are announcing today that we will not provide an immediate successor for the standalone, on-premises Service Bus for Windows Server 1.1 product. The product, available as a free download, will go out of mainstream support on January 9, 2018, as announced at product release.

We’re excited to announce the availability of Clear Linux* OS for Intel® Architecture in Azure Marketplace. Microsoft Azure is the first public cloud provider to offer Clear Linux.

Furthering our commitment to be the most trusted cloud for Government, today Microsoft is proud to announce two milestone achievements in support of the US Department of Defense.