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Skill-it-forward: Making the skills-based job market work for you

Our Microsoft Learn community, along with the rest of the world, has experienced a time of great change over the last few years—the pandemic, a sudden shift to remote work, economic volatility, and huge leaps in the capabilities and implementation...

15 Sep 2023

Ubuntu AI Podcast: Episode 4

The podcast Welcome to Ubuntu AI podcast! From fun experiments to enterprise projects, AI became the center of attention when it comes to innovation, digital transformation and optimisatation. Open source technologies democratised access to state of the art machine learning tools and opened doors for everyone ready to embark on their AI journey. Ubuntu AI […]

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14 Sep 2023

Balancing User Updates with Security Best Practices

In today’s world, it is imperative for IT administrators and organizations to manage security effectively and embrace security best practices. One common best practice involves implementing appropriate permission levels to ensure that only authorized accounts can access sensitive data and functionality.
The post Balancing User Updates with Security Best Practices appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.

14 Sep 2023

STEM training for the next generation of Latinas in tech

The Televisa Foundation will launch Technolochicas in the United States beginning this fall, starting in Houston, Los Angeles and Chicago.

14 Sep 2023

All About Microsoft Teams webinars: Technical walkthrough and live Q&A sessions from Teams Engineers

Based on multiple requests, we are hosting EMEA/APAC time zone webinar sessions to accommodate regional interest. Please find below additional sessions for you to register and attend:

You can find the upcoming session schedules and...

13 Sep 2023

September patches for Azure DevOps Server and Team Foundation Server

This month, we are releasing fixes that impact our self-hosted product, Azure DevOps Server.

The following versions of the products have been patched. Check out the links for each version for more details.
Azure DevOps Server 2022.0.1
Azure DevOps Server 2020.1.2
Azure DevOps Server 2020.0.2
Azure DevOps Server 2019.1.2
Azure DevOps Server 2019.0.1
Team Foundation Server 2018.3.2
Azure DevOps Server 2022.0.1 Patch 3
Note: If you have Azure DevOps Server 2022,
The post September patches for Azure DevOps Server and Team Foundation Server appeared first on Azure DevOps Blog.

13 Sep 2023

Plugins, Theme Switching, and More: September Webinars to Elevate Your Skills

Our September slate of webinars includes two brand new topics: plugins and theme switching.

12 Sep 2023

Public preview of Workload identity federation for Azure Pipelines

Do you want to stop storing secrets and certificates in Azure service connections? Are you tired rotating these secrets whenever they expire? We are now announcing a public preview of workload identity federation for Azure service connections. Workload identity federation uses an industry-standard technology,
The post Public preview of Workload identity federation for Azure Pipelines appeared first on Azure DevOps Blog.

11 Sep 2023

Welcome to Our Brand New Learning Hub

Our all-new home for WordPress.com courses, webinars, tutorials, and more.

8 Sep 2023

What’s New in Microsoft Teams | August 2023

Welcome to the August 2023 edition of What’s New in Teams! Following a month of great announcements from Microsoft Inspire 2023, we are not slowing down by bringing you 52 new features and devices for the month of August.We have a great line-up of new ...

7 Sep 2023

Elevating Debugging with Auto-decompilation and External Sources

Visual Studio has been supporting external sources debugging and decompilation for some time now. However, with the release of Visual Studio 17.7, the debugger took a significant leap forward by introducing Auto-decompilation for .NET libraries making the external code debugging in Visual Studio much more streamlined and effortless.
The post Elevating Debugging with Auto-decompilation and External Sources appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.

7 Sep 2023

Survey extended to 9/30: How has technical skilling impacted your career?

The annual Skillsoft IT Skills and Salary Report provides extremely valuable insights—like which IT certifications are most in-demand globally, the costs and risks of skills gaps, salary trends, and the reasons why IT professionals leave their jobs. Re...

7 Sep 2023

How Microsoft Teams apps can help improve wellbeing at work

In recent years, there has been a rapid increase in digital solutions for health and wellness, and more organizations are now investing in technology to help improve the wellbeing of their workforce.¹ Microsoft Teams provides an ideal platform for depl...

6 Sep 2023

It’s Never Been Easier to Move to WordPress.com

Presenting two new tools to make moving your website to WordPress.com a fast, seamless process.

6 Sep 2023

Keep your casing with Case-preserving Find and Replace

The Visual Studio search experience is getting a new feature that allows users to find and replace text without having to worry about different casings. For example, a method parameter `catalogItemId` and object property `CatalogItemId` have the same name but different capitalization but should both be replaced by something like ‘productId’ with their respective casings.
The post Keep your casing with Case-preserving Find and Replace appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.

6 Sep 2023

What 4 sustainability startups learned from our first circular economy accelerator

Eleven teams from APAC and North America have graduated from Google’s first accelerator program for circular economy startups.

4 Sep 2023

A deep dive into intelligent cameras Multi-Stream and Cloud IntelliFrame for Teams Rooms

When you join a meeting in Microsoft Teams, what do you expect to see when you have participants in a shared, physical space? Today, most cameras in Microsoft Teams Rooms show a view of the whole room, what we have become accustomed to as the “default”...

2 Sep 2023

What’s new in Microsoft Shifts Notifications

In response to valuable feedback from our customers, we embarked on a mission to significantly improve the way notifications are handled within our system. Our users highlighted concerns regarding noisy and irrelevant notifications that lacked the nece...

1 Sep 2023

WordCamp US 2023: Celebrating 20 Years of WordPress

A peek at WordPress.com's presence at WordCamp US '23 in National Harbor, Maryland.

1 Sep 2023

Meet learners who changed their career with the help of Microsoft Learn

Microsoft Learn has a passionate and inspiring community to support your learning journey wherever it may take you. Here we highlight a few of our global learners who have shared their stories about making successful career changes using Microsoft Lear...

1 Sep 2023

Shopify merchants can soon choose to offer Buy with Prime directly within their Shopify Checkout

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31 Aug 2023

Visual Studio for Mac Retirement Announcement

Today we are announcing the retirement of the Visual Studio for Mac IDE. Visual Studio for Mac 17.6 will continue to be supported for another 12 months, until August 31st, 2024, with servicing updates for security issues and updated platforms from Apple.
The post Visual Studio for Mac Retirement Announcement appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.

31 Aug 2023

Discover Microsoft Azure learning, training, certifications, and career path opportunities

What is Microsoft Azure?
In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, cloud computing has become the backbone of many businesses and industries. Microsoft Azure—a key part of the Microsoft Cloud, which also includes Microsoft Security, ...

30 Aug 2023

Free New Course: Elevate Your Website with Memberships

Join the movement of website creators transforming their passion into thriving online communities.

30 Aug 2023

Microsoft Learn: Updates to our business applications training and certification portfolio

IT professionals around the world count on Microsoft Dynamics 365 solutions—key components of Microsoft business applications, along with Microsoft Power Platform—to help them manage sales, customer service, field service, finance, operations, and more...

30 Aug 2023

How a 60-second video changed one designer’s career

Alaa is a Women Techmakers Ambassador who is having an impact on gender equity in the tech industry.

29 Aug 2023

Custom versus off-the-shelf is an imaginary dilemma for today’s commerce CTO

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28 Aug 2023

Introducing the 100-Year Plan: Secure Your Online Legacy for a Century

An exceptional new plan for those who want to secure their online legacy for a lifetime—and then some.

26 Aug 2023

Supercharge brand content with the Typeface AI app for Microsoft Teams

We are just starting to scratch the surface of what generative AI can do, and yet it’s already beginning to transform the marketing industry. An April 2023 survey of global CMOs revealed that about 70 percent of their organizations use generative AI, w...

25 Aug 2023

Even More New WordPress.com Themes for August 2023

With a heavy does of minimalism and nostalgia, our latest batch of themes is sure to tug at your creative spirit.

25 Aug 2023

Introducing Azure Artifacts support for Rust Crates

Rust is earning its place as a go-to language for developers everywhere. Why? It’s fast, it’s safe, and the community around it is supportive and hands-on. With clear guides and a collective push to help each other out, Rust feels less like just another tool and more like a reliable coding partner for modern programming challenges.
The post Introducing Azure Artifacts support for Rust Crates appeared first on Azure DevOps Blog.

23 Aug 2023

Introducing a new resource for all role-based Microsoft Certification exams

For more than 30 years, Microsoft Certifications have provided proof of world-class technical proficiency. We are focusing on innovative solutions that improve the accessibility and real-world relevance of our certifications. I am pleased to announce t...

23 Aug 2023

Shopify recognized as a Leader in 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™

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22 Aug 2023

Getting a ‘career in tech’ is more approachable than you may think

As our CEO Satya Nadella has said, “in today’s world, every company is a software company.” Not to say that every company makes software, but it’s safe to say that some level of technology is embedded into most experiences we encounter on a daily basis...

17 Aug 2023

3 student projects aiming to solve real-world problems with tech

Announcing the top three winners of this year's GDSC Solution Challenge, as well as the people’s choice award.

11 Aug 2023

August patches for Azure DevOps Server

This month, we are releasing fixes that impact our self-hosted product, Azure DevOps Server.

The following versions of the products have been patched. Check out the links for each version for more details.
Azure DevOps Server 2022.0.1
Azure DevOps Server 2020.1.2
Azure DevOps Server 2020.0.2
Azure DevOps Server 2019.1.2
Azure DevOps Server 2019.0.1
Azure DevOps Server 2022.0.1 Patch 2

Update: If you have Azure DevOps 2022 and installed Patch 4,
The post August patches for Azure DevOps Server appeared first on Azure DevOps Blog.

9 Aug 2023

Follow conversations with ease using Spatial Audio in Microsoft Teams

Microsoft released spatial audio for Teams to improve communication and reduce meeting fatigue in audio and video conferences. Spatial audio aims to mimic an in-person conversation by spatially separating the voices of individual meeting participants, ...

2 Aug 2023