It's the first opportunity for developers to integrate their apps with the Cortana digital assistant.
The company officially responds to a social media storm of worry.
The first update in more than a year includes support for new Web frameworks.
The tools are open source and include debugging support.
Also announced was a new interop organization called The .NET Foundation.
It's free for up to five users.
It's available as part of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC, and as a standalone download.
The developer preview was released yesterday.
Unlike Visual Studio 2013 Update 2, TFS isn't a release candidate.
Release Candidate 2 of Visual Studio 2013 also announced.
Memory support is expanded in the Standard edition, responding to feedback.
A new version of the .NET Compact Framework was also released.
Fresh on the heels of SQL Server 2014 being released to manufacturing, the SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) team yesterday announced support for the new version, along with numerous other enhancements.
A 99.5 percent service level agreement is promised.
The library is available via NuGet, and includes AdSense, Blogger and YouTube functionality.
Windows Azure HDInsight was also released, based on Hadoop 2.2.
Even with support ending April 8, Windows XP still hangs on, even gaining market share according to some metrics.
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/10/2014
SignalR provides real-time communications between servers and clients.
The technology was developed by a company founded by two ex-Microsoft executives.
The deadline was moved back from March 14 to May 7, at which time early adopters will be automatically enrolled as regular users.