Everything You Need to Know About This Weekend’s Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 Open Beta

Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 is one of the year’s most anticipated games, and the more we see of the upcoming action-packed RPG, the more excited I am to play through it. I recently had the chance to spend a good chunk of quality time with the new-and-improved Dark Zone offerings, and while they were a ton of fun, I had a hankering for a taste of the looter shooter’s main campaign. Thankfully, those desires were fulfilled when I spent the better part of a day at an event in San Francisco a couple weeks ago getting my hands on a… Continue reading Everything You Need to Know About This Weekend’s Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 Open Beta

Azure Data Architecture Guide – Blog #9: Extract, transform, load (ETL)

This is our ninth and final blog entry exploring the Azure Data Architecture Guide. The previous entries for this blog series are:

Azure Data Architecture Guide – Blog #1: Introduction
Azure Data Architecture Guide – Blog #2: On-demand big d… Continue reading Azure Data Architecture Guide – Blog #9: Extract, transform, load (ETL)

TWC9: Build Registration Open, HoloLens 2, Visual Studio 2019 Updates, Twitch Live Code Setups and more | This Week On Channel 9

This week on Channel 9, Christina is not wearing a nerdy tech shirt — but stay tuned, that will be fixed soon — and is ready to dive into this week’s top developer news, including:[00:33] Microsoft Build 2019 Registration is Now Open[0… Continue reading TWC9: Build Registration Open, HoloLens 2, Visual Studio 2019 Updates, Twitch Live Code Setups and more | This Week On Channel 9

Fear the Rats in A Plague Tale: Innocence, Pre-order Today on Xbox One

Bringing together a deep narrative and an incredible rendition of war-torn, plague-ridden 14th century France, A Plague Tale: Innocence tells the grim tale of young Amicia and her little brother Hugo in a third-person adventure through medieval times. Today we are celebrating the launch of pre-orders on Xbox One so please pick it up and experience our new, original IP in just a few months – we hope that you will enjoy the journey as much as we enjoyed crafting it. This first solo effort is a project very close to our heart at Asobo Studio, telling the story of… Continue reading Fear the Rats in A Plague Tale: Innocence, Pre-order Today on Xbox One

New Preview Beta 1904 build coming today 3/1/19

Starting at 2:00 p.m. PST today, members of the Xbox One Preview Beta Ring will begin receiving the latest 1904 Xbox One system update (19h1_release_xbox_dev_1904.190226-1920). Read on for more about the new features, fixes and known issues in the latest 1904 system update.   New Features:   A complete feature list for 1904 is published here https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2019/02/21/new-features-rolling-out-to-xbox-insiders-this-spring/ This build contains the new Voice command features to please test. Voice Skills New Alexa Voice skills are available today for flighting. Please try the new “Alexa, Pair controller” and “Alexa, Eject disc” voice commands and let us know what you think.   Fixes:… Continue reading New Preview Beta 1904 build coming today 3/1/19

Azure AD B2B, Azure Infrastructure Compliance and More, on The Friday Five!

Test your Azure infrastructure compliance with Inspec Mikael Krief is a Microsoft MVP living in France as a DevOps consultant. He is passionate about ALM and DevOps, and is very interested in the integration with Microsoft (Azure and Azure DevOps) and all open source tools (terraform, ansible, Jenkins, … ). Mikael has also been a… Continue reading Azure AD B2B, Azure Infrastructure Compliance and More, on The Friday Five!

Azure Cosmos DB update: SDKs, CORS, multi-region strong consistency, and more | Azure Friday

Learn about the new SDKs for Azure Cosmos DB with the JavaScript SDK as an example, talk about CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) with a simple JavaScript app to demonstrate it, a new, low-cost database offer in the Azure portal, Azure DevOps bu… Continue reading Azure Cosmos DB update: SDKs, CORS, multi-region strong consistency, and more | Azure Friday