Announcements

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’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.

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.

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.

Azure Portal with Azure Resource Manager and Cool Storage Account Support Today we are announcing the availability of Azure Import/Export Service in the new Azure portal.

Earlier this fall we once again invited our community of IT professionals, developers, and technology decision makers to participate in the 2016 Future of Cloud Survey led by North Bridge Growth Equity Venture Partners and research analyst firm Wikibon, which analyzes trends in cloud computing

Announcing today, we have three training offers that combine free access to our library of flexible online courses, discounts on our industry-standard Microsoft Certified Professional exams, and a discount on Linux certification offered through the Linux Foundation.

Today I’m excited to announce the release of Kafka Connect for Azure IoT Hub, our offering for secure two-way communication with devices, device identity and device management at extreme scale and performance.

Today we are announcing the general availability (GA) of several features as well as a new REST API version and .NET SDK that support the new GA features.