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Great applications help users do great things — enabling a wide range of creative, productivity and entertainment scenarios. Returning to activities can be a challenge, especially when a person wants to continue those activities across multiple devices. By writing User Activities, application...

In the last few posts, we’ve explored a few aspects available to you as part of the wider group of Link Removed. Microsoft Cognitive Services puts the power of machine learning within your reach with easy to consume REST APIs. Using the APIs and SDKs can add a whole new level of cognitive...

“Ipsa scientia potestas est.” – Sir Francis Bacon In the last two posts in this series, we covered the Speech APIs and the Language Understanding APIs. In the current post, we’ll go over the Knowledge APIs. There is a natural progression to this since from speech, we derive meaning, and with...

Speech recognition is in many ways at the heart of Artificial Intelligence. The 18th Century essayist Samuel Johnson captured this beautifully when he wrote, “Language is the dress of thought.” If the ultimate goal of AI research is a machine that thinks like a human, a reasonable starting point...

What exactly are Cognitive Services and what are they for? Cognitive Services are a set of machine learning algorithms that Microsoft has developed to solve problems in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The goal of Cognitive Services is to democratize Link Removed by packaging it into...

In our first and second posts in this series, we looked at some of the APIs available in the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) for using speech as an input and output mechanism within your application. We’re going to close off the series with this article by broadening our scope and looking at...

Today's Extension Monday post is about one of the coolest new extension opportunities, extension Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS, fka Visual Studio Online). To get you started creating VSTS extensions, Josh Garverick has shared a great Project Template... Link Removed This extension...

I am running a simple website on a hostforlife.eu windows server, I suppose it is IIS server. The backend of the website is REST api implemented in PHP. However, when I send requests with PUT and DELETE as method, it just return 405 method unsupported. My web.config is like this: <?xml...

Scott talks to Azure Search Program Manager Liam Cavanagh. Azure offers Search-as-a-service for web and mobile apps! You can scale out easily and tune indices just the way your users want it. Liam explains how the REST API for Azure Search works and how easy it is to plug into an app. You could...

In part two of this two-part series, Larry Waldman, Excel Program Manager, talks in detail about how to execute the migration of Excel client solutions to web-based Excel Services solutions. Larry walks through the migration of a sample Excel client application to its new incarnation as a...

In part one of this two-part series, Larry Waldman, Excel Program Manager, discusses how to think about designing Excel solutions for the Web. As the Program Manager for Excel Services extensibility, Larry talks through the power of solutions built on Excel Services and what's now available in...