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With new chart types and improvements to PivotTables and business intelligence (BI), Microsoft Excel 2016 makes it easier to work with large amounts of data and give it even more meaning. Unlock insights, and tell the story in your data by organizing it in spreadsheets (workbooks). View your...

SQL Server 2016 Community Technology Preview 2.3 is here! It is the biggest leap forward in Microsoft’s data platform history with faster transactions and queries, deeper insights on any device, advanced analytics, new security technology, and new hybrid cloud scenarios. Link Removed

Stats being tracked by the website analytic company shows that Windows 10 now accounts for 10% of the overall Windows 10 traffic the company is tracking globally. read more Continue reading...

This week on Channel 9, Nikola and Vlad discuss the week's top developer news, including; Link Removed Link Removed [Yusuf Mehdi] Link Removed Link Removed [Gabe Aul], Windows 10's final build number is delightfully clever [Tom Warren] Link Removed Microsoft announces new innovations and...

Higher user ratings are one of the success factors for apps in the Windows Store. Understanding and acting on customer reviews and minimizing app crashes help increase customer satisfaction, and that in turn will increase app ratings. In the new unified Dev Center dashboard you now have access...

Datazen Publisher for Windows 7 allows you to create stunning data visualizations from Excel, SQL Server, SSAS, SQL Azure, SharePoint and other cloud & enterprise data sources. Link Removed

Here are just 15 posts from the many released last week. Remember, so see almost everything that's new, check out https://channel9.msdn.com/Browse Link Removed This week on Channel 9, Nikola and guest host Dave Crawford discuss the week's top developer news, including; ... Link Removed...

Next week we will begin the migration of accounts to the new Windows Dev Center dashboard. You can expect account migration to take place in waves – starting next week and extending into July. The migrations are scheduled based on account feature usage, for example starting with accounts that...

Scott talks to Wee Hyong Tok on how to analyze huge amounts of data with Azure Data Factory. Specifically, he shows us how to create a customer "churn model" so a theoretical telco provider can better understand how their wireless customers "churn" - why they leave and how they can get them...

In this episode Chris Risner and Haishi Bai are joined by Anand Subbaraj, Senior Program Manager on the Azure Data Factory team. Anand joins us to talk about Azure Data Factory is a managed service which focuses on managing information production. This enables you to aggregate data from many...

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Windows 7 Forums continues to provide information and discussion to millions of people around the world. In that tradition, we continue to develop some great features that become available through third party development, our own work, and from our affiliation with the vBulletin Pre-Release...

Bad news coming over the forum wire. Due to the unforeseen circumstances of economic worldwide recession and a massive drop in visitor levels according to both our independent analytics data, as well as internal monitoring data, we have taken the unusual and emergency steps of enacting...

It is unusual that we announce feature removals, however, several changes have been made to improve site speed and performance. Unnecessary scripts and features have been removed to boost site speed. Translator software has been disabled in favor of browser (local level) translations performed...

Computerworld - Windows 7 has passed the 10-year-old Windows XP in U.S. usage share, according to data from an Irish Web analytics company. In the first 10 days of April, Windows 7's average daily share was 32.2% as measured by StatCounter, besting XP's average of 30.7%. Link Removed due to 404...

Windows 7 has passed the 10-year-old Windows XP in U.S. usage share, according to data from an Irish Web analytics company. More...

Computerworld - Windows 7 has passed the 10-year-old Windows XP in U.S. usage share, according to data from an Irish Web analytics company. In the first 10 days of April, Windows 7's average daily share was 32.2% as measured by StatCounter, besting XP's average of 30.7%. Link Removed

Link Removed due to 404 Error Microsoft released Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online worldwide Monday in 40 markets and 41 languages. The updated customer relationship management product aims to deliver customers a familiar, intelligent and connected experience, the company said. REDMOND...

Microsoft and PreEmptive solutions have a partnership where Windows Phone developers (both Silverlight and XNA) get free access to Preemptive's Dotfuscator and their Runtime Intelligent Service. In this episode we interview Bill Leach, Preemptive's CTO, for a deep dive into Dotfuscator, a...

Did you realize, for example, that Microsoft knows how many times its users click on the Start menu? How often they use certain Aero features? How many programs get pinned to the taskbar? Link Removed