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March 8, 2019 By ray

Pull request successfully merged. Starting build…

I’m thrilled to share that the Microsoft acquisition of GitHub is complete. ? Monday is my first day as CEO. Millions of people rely on GitHub every day, and I am honored by the opportunity to lead this company. When we announced the acquisition in June, I shared two principles for GitHub that are worth repeating: GitHub will operate independently as a community, platform, and business. This means that GitHub will retain its developer-first values, distinctive spirit, and open extensibility.… Read more

February 12, 2019 By ray

Buy a custom domain name for Azure App Service

App Service domains (preview) are top-level domains that are managed directly in Azure. They make it easy to manage custom domains for Azure App Service. This tutorial shows you how to buy an App Service domain and assign DNS names to Azure App Service. For Azure VM or Azure Storage, see Assign App Service domain to Azure VM or Azure Storage.… Read more

February 12, 2019 By ray

Add your custom domain name using the Azure Active Directory portal

Every new Azure AD tenant comes with an initial domain name, domainname.onmicrosoft.com. You can’t change or delete the initial domain name, but you can add your organization’s names to the list. Adding custom domain names helps you to create user names that are familiar to your users, such as alain@contoso.com. Before you begin Before you can add a custom domain name, you must create your domain name with a domain registrar.… Read more

February 2, 2019 By ray

Microsoft buys into Grab as pair focus on big data and AI on Azure

Microsoft has announced making a strategic investment in ride-sharing service Grab, as one of the first moves under a recently forged partnership between the two companies. Grab will also adopt Microsoft Azure as its preferred cloud platform, hoping to use the latter’s cloud and artificial intelligence capabilities to “scale its platform and increase its capacity and capabilities”.… Read more

February 2, 2019 By ray

Microsoft makes its 60,000 patents open source to help Linux

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft announced today that it’s joining the Open Invention Network (OIN), an open-source patent group designed to help protect Linux from patent lawsuits. In essence, this makes the company’s library over 60,000 patents open source and available to OIN members, via ZDNet. OIN provides a license platform for Linux for around 2,400 companies — from individual developers to huge companies like Google and IBM — and all members get access to both OIN-owned patents and cross-licenses between other OIN licensees, royalty-free.… Read more