Two cloud development services -- Azure Functions and Azure App Service -- are now available on Azure Stack, which brings cloud functionality to on-premises implementations. Azure Stack extends the ...

Microsoft has been developing a set of tools to help manage Azure-hosted VMs for some time now under its Project Flash banner ...

Azure App Services is an HTTP-based service for hosting web applications, and is available in both Microsoft Azure Cloud and on-premise installations.

The tool provides automated code fixes, predefined migration tasks, and recommendations for Azure services, accelerating ...

For now, Azure Mobile Services and the mobile component of App Services will be available side-by-side, but over time. It’s unclear for how long Microsoft will support both services, though.

With Azure App Service, that reach is extended to web browsers and the backends of rival mobile platforms. It will also let customers connect their apps to external services like Oracle Siebel ...

The preview of Azure Mobile App Services currently supports quick starts for four clients, reduced from 11 in the previous production Mobile Services. The demo apps themselves haven’t changed much.

Microsoft is now offering Azure for student developers, in which they can get free usage to learn how to build cloud-based mobile and Web apps using services such as the aforementioned Azure Apps ...

Apps using Azure Communication Services APIs can also leverage Microsoft Graph APIs. The Graph APIs permit the adding and managing of chats and meetings, as well as the deployment of "server and ...