Month: December 2017

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is now available on Xbox One as a console launch exclusive through the Xbox Game Preview program! We love seeing our Xbox community parachuting onto the remote island of Erangel and duking it out for that delicious chicken dinner. To celebrate the launch of PUBG on Xbox One, we want to send you and a friend on an island adventure of your own as part of our Crate Drop Sweepstakes. Don’t worry, though. We’ve picked a slightly better island with less battling and more relaxing. Prizes include: (1) Grand Prize: A four-night all-inclusive trip for two to Honolulu,… Continue reading PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and Xbox Want to Send You on an Island Adventure→

Tim and Olivier discuss the new Azure IoT Suite Remote Monitoring Preconfigured Solution going through the various aspects of the solution from deployment to operation. The new Remote Monitoring solution is a total overhaul of the original one. From it… Continue reading Meet the new Remote Monitoring accelerator for Azure IoT | Internet of Things Show→

Raghav Mohan joins Scott Hanselman to talk about Apache Kafka on HDInsight, which added the open-source distributed streaming platform last year to complete a scalable, big data streaming scenario on Azure. The service has come a long way since – … Continue reading Apache Kafka on HDInsight | Azure Friday→

Microsoft Community Connection events have wrapped up around the globe! Between September and December 2017, Community Connection events were held in more than two dozen cities worldwide, providing a space for the community to learn new skills, inspire each other, and celebrate technology on the cutting-edge.   While MVPs have the opportunity to connect online or at smaller events throughout the year, these events… Continue reading 6 Awesome Projects We Discovered At Community Connection Events Worldwide→

This is our last week. Yep, the time has come to sunset this blog. The Coding4Fun blog’s Goodbye post will be this Friday, December 22nd. Wednesday’s post will be the final Round-up, listing the posts from December, 2017 and since I started with the bl… Continue reading 0 to Analyzing, Writing a .NET Standard Roslyn Analyzer→

17That’s the select number of shows, episodes, videos and posts highlighted below, brought to you last week by our awesome Channel 9 hosts.Admin Note: This will be the last Last Week on Channel 9 (by me at least). It’s been great bringing you these pos… Continue reading Last Week on Channel 9: December 11th – December 17th, 2017→

Welcome to Next Week on Xbox where we bring you the latest details on upcoming games coming soon to Xbox One! This coming week we have the final chapter of the acclaimed adventure game Life is Strange: Before the Storm, the arcade puzzle game Raining Blobs and a few more titles as we head into the holidays. Read on below for more details on these games and more and we’ll see you back here in the new year! Continue reading Next Week on Xbox: New Games for December 18 – 24→

We know you’re busy and might miss out on all the exciting things we’re talking about on Xbox Wire every week. If you’ve got a few minutes, we can help remedy that. We’ve pared down the past week’s news into one easy-to-digest article for all things Xbox! Or, if you’d rather watch than read, you can feast your eyes on our weekly video show above. Be sure to come back every Friday to find out what’s happening This Week on Xbox! Buy the World’s Most Powerful Console; Get the Hottest Multiplayer Game of 2017 Earlier this week, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG)… Continue reading This Week on Xbox: December 15, 2017→