In this 237th episode, AC and CJ plow through a ton of news in the cloud space related to Microsoft, Azure, Office 365 and AWS. They spent a bit more time this week on picks… including an awesome listener submission!
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MicrosoftWindows emergency patch: Microsoft’s new update kills off Intel’s Spectre fixOffice 365SharePoint Content Services January 2018 UpdateMicrosoft Teams gets tighter app integration, revamped command box, and slash commandsMicrosoft Teams: Making meetings matterNew in January—enriching teamwork across devicesShared Office codebase for Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android means more features for more users fasterContainersRed Hat to Acquire CoreOS, Expanding its Kubernetes and Containers LeadershipAzureMicrosoft acquires PlayFab, a tool vendor for cloud-connected gamesManaging Azure Secrets on GitHub RepositoriesAnnouncing the general availability of Azure Event GridAzure Storage SDKs for Python, Ruby and PHP now generally availableNew in Stream Analytics: General availability of sub-streams, query compatibility, and more.NET Core 2.0 support for App Service on LinuxAWSServerless ASP.NET Core 2.0 ApplicationsAWS Lambda .NET Core 2.0 Support ReleasedCustom Silent Server - 2x Quad Core XEON 2.33Ghz, 32GB RAM, NVIDIA GTX 580The World’s First Legitimate Ponzi SchemeReddit: SpaceX: Elon: This rocket was meant to test very high retrothrust landing in water so it didn’t hurt the droneship, but amazingly it has survived. We will try to tow it back to shore.OPEN DSKY Apollo 50th Anniversary - Make 100Explorer 1NASA sends historic Apollo mission control consoles to be restoredNASA’s Long Dead ‘IMAGE’ Satellite is Alive!The Microsoft Cloud Show sponsored by:
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