10 main announcements of Microsoft in 2017
And here is a pre-New Year publication that has already become a tradition with ten of the most important announcements and novelties of the year from Microsoft. What will be remembered the outgoing year with the prefix MS? Look under the cat!
Update Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, in addition to many other innovations, allowed users around the world to touch the magic created by using mixed reality. The corporation actively cooperates with various development companies in this innovative field, and strives to ensure that each of them has access to a set of tools for developing applications using Microsoft mixed reality technologies.
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Also, Windows Subsystem for Linux has become part of Windows 10. WSL is a compatibility subsystem for running Linux applications on Windows 10. The installation guide can be found here .
This fall, mixed reality has become even more accessible thanks to the joint efforts of Microsoft and our hardware partners: the Windows Mixed Reality platform has been released .
The long-awaited release of Visual Studio for MacOS . This edition of the tool is a transfer of experience with your beloved millions of IDE on a Mac.
To create their own solutions in C #, F #,. NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Xamarin, or Unity, developers got a familiar tool designed for OS X operating system features.
Microsoft has announced a new service in Azure, which will allow moving third-party databases and SQL Server to Azure SQL Database with almost zero downtime.
Microsoft also announced the availability of Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL . These new databases in Azure are provided as a service and guarantee high availability, data protection, recovery, and scaling without the need for additional settings and costs, since all this is already built into the offer itself.
In addition, Azure Cosmos DB was announced - a completely new database type, provided as a service on the Azure platform.
And another important event was the accession of Microsoft to the Maria DB Foundation as a platinum sponsor. MariaDB is a branch of the MySQL relational database management system developed by the Open Source community.
Fluent Design System will allow developers to create applications that work on different devices and use a variety of ways to interact with the user, namely data entry.
Fluent Design System is based on five key elements: light, depth, motion, material and scale. Regarding these principles, Microsoft is exploring a variety of ways for a user to interact with a system that goes beyond our usual mouse, keyboard, touch screen, or pen.
Microsoft has released a free preliminary version of the Quantum Development Kit of Quantum Development Tools, which includes the Q # programming language, a quantum computing emulator, and other resources for people who want to start writing applications for a quantum computer. Q # is a completely new programming language designed specifically for quantum computing.
The Quantum Development Kit is aimed at developers who want to learn how to program on quantum computers, regardless of whether developers are experts in quantum physics.
Previously announced on Build 2017, the IoT Edge service is now publicly available as a pre-release version for developers. It allows you to deploy the IoT logic created in the cloud in the form of containers on IoT devices. On smart devices, you can run Azure Machine Learning, Azure Functions, and Azure Stream Analytics tasks. Azure IoT Edge allows you to create your own containerized applications in C, Java, .NET, Node.js, and Python and simplifies their deployment and management.
Microsoft introduced a preliminary version of the new extension Visual Studio Tools for AI , which allows the use of AI services directly in Visual Studio. It combines the capabilities of Visual Studio with support for such deep learning frameworks like Cognitive Toolkit, TensorFlow, or Caffe. In addition, the extension can be fully integrated with Azure cloud services for machine learning. For example, after editing and testing scripts on a local machine, you can send the modified model code for training in Azure.
On July 10, 2017, Mike Neil, corporate vice president, Azure Infrastructure and Management, announced that Microsoft Azure Stack shipments will begin in September 2017. The final version of the Azure Stack was provided to Microsoft hardware partners so that they can begin the certification process for their integrated systems. For more information, including pricing and ordering options, see Mike Neal's blog .
Here’s what the Azure Stack integrated systems offered by Microsoft hardware partners look like. Here are test samples of Azure Stack Integrated Hardware Systems.
Team Foundation Server is a collaborative software development solution that combines a version control system and tools for collecting data, generating reports, and tracking project status and changes. TFS 2018 received several important changes, which can be found in this review .
Of course, this is not all announcements of the company for the year. Here we have listed only the brightest. And what novelty do you remember most of all? Tell us in the comments!
1. Windows 10 Fall Creators Update
Update Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, in addition to many other innovations, allowed users around the world to touch the magic created by using mixed reality. The corporation actively cooperates with various development companies in this innovative field, and strives to ensure that each of them has access to a set of tools for developing applications using Microsoft mixed reality technologies.
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Also, Windows Subsystem for Linux has become part of Windows 10. WSL is a compatibility subsystem for running Linux applications on Windows 10. The installation guide can be found here .
2. Windows Mixed Reality
This fall, mixed reality has become even more accessible thanks to the joint efforts of Microsoft and our hardware partners: the Windows Mixed Reality platform has been released .
3. Visual Studio for Mac
The long-awaited release of Visual Studio for MacOS . This edition of the tool is a transfer of experience with your beloved millions of IDE on a Mac.
To create their own solutions in C #, F #,. NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Xamarin, or Unity, developers got a familiar tool designed for OS X operating system features.
4. New Azure and SQL services
Microsoft has announced a new service in Azure, which will allow moving third-party databases and SQL Server to Azure SQL Database with almost zero downtime.
Microsoft also announced the availability of Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL . These new databases in Azure are provided as a service and guarantee high availability, data protection, recovery, and scaling without the need for additional settings and costs, since all this is already built into the offer itself.
In addition, Azure Cosmos DB was announced - a completely new database type, provided as a service on the Azure platform.
And another important event was the accession of Microsoft to the Maria DB Foundation as a platinum sponsor. MariaDB is a branch of the MySQL relational database management system developed by the Open Source community.
5. Fluent Design System Concept
Fluent Design System will allow developers to create applications that work on different devices and use a variety of ways to interact with the user, namely data entry.
Fluent Design System is based on five key elements: light, depth, motion, material and scale. Regarding these principles, Microsoft is exploring a variety of ways for a user to interact with a system that goes beyond our usual mouse, keyboard, touch screen, or pen.
6. Quantum Development Kit
Microsoft has released a free preliminary version of the Quantum Development Kit of Quantum Development Tools, which includes the Q # programming language, a quantum computing emulator, and other resources for people who want to start writing applications for a quantum computer. Q # is a completely new programming language designed specifically for quantum computing.
The Quantum Development Kit is aimed at developers who want to learn how to program on quantum computers, regardless of whether developers are experts in quantum physics.
7. Azure IoT Edge
Previously announced on Build 2017, the IoT Edge service is now publicly available as a pre-release version for developers. It allows you to deploy the IoT logic created in the cloud in the form of containers on IoT devices. On smart devices, you can run Azure Machine Learning, Azure Functions, and Azure Stream Analytics tasks. Azure IoT Edge allows you to create your own containerized applications in C, Java, .NET, Node.js, and Python and simplifies their deployment and management.
8. Visual Studio Tools for AI
Microsoft introduced a preliminary version of the new extension Visual Studio Tools for AI , which allows the use of AI services directly in Visual Studio. It combines the capabilities of Visual Studio with support for such deep learning frameworks like Cognitive Toolkit, TensorFlow, or Caffe. In addition, the extension can be fully integrated with Azure cloud services for machine learning. For example, after editing and testing scripts on a local machine, you can send the modified model code for training in Azure.
9. Azure Stack
On July 10, 2017, Mike Neil, corporate vice president, Azure Infrastructure and Management, announced that Microsoft Azure Stack shipments will begin in September 2017. The final version of the Azure Stack was provided to Microsoft hardware partners so that they can begin the certification process for their integrated systems. For more information, including pricing and ordering options, see Mike Neal's blog .
Here’s what the Azure Stack integrated systems offered by Microsoft hardware partners look like. Here are test samples of Azure Stack Integrated Hardware Systems.
10. Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2018
Team Foundation Server is a collaborative software development solution that combines a version control system and tools for collecting data, generating reports, and tracking project status and changes. TFS 2018 received several important changes, which can be found in this review .
Of course, this is not all announcements of the company for the year. Here we have listed only the brightest. And what novelty do you remember most of all? Tell us in the comments!
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/345416/
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