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This past weekend we released a number of enhancements to Windows Azure. These new capabilities include: Mobile Services: Android support, East As... more
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Hi, I’m Andy Rich, a QA on the C++ team. Earlier this week, the C++ team released the C++ REST SDK (codename “Casablanca”) on CodePlex (casabl... more
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After releasing the preview of our HTML Client to a broader audience, it became pretty clear from your feedback that we had to work on the user experi... more
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There seems to be two extremes of this whole "Learn to Code" movement which has come to a crescendo with the "What most schools don't teach" video fro... more
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