Delivering on a promise from the last BUILD event earlier this year, Microsoft in mid-May introduced a new service for taking applications for test drives on Azure without any commitment whatsoever -- ...

Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), Microsoft's application lifecycle management system, is to undergo a major shake-up and rebranding. Instead of a single Visual Studio-branded service, it's being ...

A comparison of SQL Server's throughput performance on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) gives the edge to Microsoft's cloud. "Azure emerged as the clear leader across both Windows and ...

Azure DevOps and GitHub are both developer collaboration tools owned by Microsoft. Despite these similarities, the two DevOps tools are far from interchangeable. Developers in need of a software ...

Cloud-native applications aren’t the monoliths of old, fitting neatly into client-server or three-tier categories. They’re now a conglomeration of services, mixing your code and platform tools, ...