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

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

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

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