App Thinning: Syncing Localized Strings to Outlook for iOS

Outlook for iOS has seen tremendous growth over the past few years. As with any mobile app used across the world, a key area where we strive to deliver is internationalization and localization. With dozens of major languages spoken around the world, it… Continue reading App Thinning: Syncing Localized Strings to Outlook for iOS

How to Protect your Azure blob storage from accidental deletion

I know this not a new feature, but this saved my proverbial behind earlier this week. I was cleaning out demo subscriptions and resource groups that I’m no longer using or that need to be reset for new demos. Well… It did not take long for me to pick o… Continue reading How to Protect your Azure blob storage from accidental deletion

[Mitigated] DevTest Labs Outage: Customers in certain regions might experience degraded performance

Update at 12:30 AM UTC on 16 Jan 2021 – Issue has been mitigated and we do not expect customers to face any issues. We will update the blog post with the RCA soon. 
 

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One year later: The path to carbon negative – a progress report on our climate ‘moonshot’

A year ago, we launched the biggest commitment in Microsoft’s history to focus on the climate crisis. As Satya Nadella, Amy Hood, and I announced last January, Microsoft committed to become carbon negative as a company by 2030 – meaning that by that date we will remove from the environment more carbon than we emit. By 2050, we committed that we’ll remove from the…

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How to prepare for a Microsoft Azure Certification Exam

Often I get asked by people how are looking for jobs if it makes sense to get certified. While certification is not a requirement nor a guarantee, it can definitely help to land a job working in a team doing cloud computing. I also use it often to make… Continue reading How to prepare for a Microsoft Azure Certification Exam

The state of apps by Microsoft identity: Azure AD app gallery apps that made the most impact in 2020

See what applications in the Azure AD app gallery powered the way we work, learn, and collaborate in 2020.
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Microsoft surpasses $10 billion in security business revenue, more than 40 percent year-over-year growth

Microsoft empowers defenders to secure across platforms and clouds to make the world a safer place.
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