Simon Bisson
Contributor
Author of InfoWorld's Enterprise Microsoft blog, Simon BIsson prefers to think of "career" as a verb rather than a noun, having worked in academic and telecoms research, as well as having been the CTO of a startup, running the technical side of UK Online (the first national ISP with content as well as connections), before moving into consultancy and technology strategy. He’s built plenty of large-scale web applications, designed architectures for multi-terabyte online image stores, implemented B2B information hubs, and come up with next generation mobile network architectures and knowledge management solutions. In between doing all that, he’s been a freelance journalist since the early days of the web and writes about everything from enterprise architecture down to gadgets.
Using Visual Studio Code for C# development
Microsoft’s new C# Dev Kit extension for Visual Studio Code turns the programmer’s editor into a complete development environment for .NET.
Using Azure Migrate to move on-premises systems to Azure
Microsoft’s free cloud migration tools simplify the process of bringing applications and services out of your data center and into the cloud.
Building for Linux and Android on Windows
Updates to Windows Subsystem for Linux and Windows Subsystem for Android make cross-platform development on Windows easy.
Send a message with Azure Notification Hubs
Azure Notification Hubs can deliver notifications to any device from any platform anywhere, without your having to manage all aspects of the messaging stack.
How Microsoft uses walkthroughs to guide open source development
Often the hardest part of contributing to an open source project is learning where to start. Microsoft has a cure for that.
Building collaborative apps with Microsoft Loop components
Adaptive Card-based Loop components are live and portable chunks of functionality that you can embed in Outlook, Teams, business apps, and your own code. Here’s how to get started.
Launch into satellite applications with Microsoft Azure
Microsoft’s Azure Space platform and Azure Orbital Space SDK are taking edge computing to the final frontier, starting with satellite image processing, geospatial, and communications applications.
The key new features and changes in .NET 8
With Microsoft’s yearly .NET release just around the corner, it’s time to start thinking about the changes you will need to make to your code.
Building LLM applications with vector search in Azure Cognitive Services
Microsoft’s Cognitive Search API now offers vector search as a service, ready for use with large language models in Azure OpenAI and beyond.
Understanding OneLake and lakehouses in Microsoft Fabric
Microsoft Azure’s new, unified data platform aims to be your one-stop shop for analytics and machine learning at scale.
Tame your wild LLM with TypeChat
Large language models mean not having to use complicated regular expression handlers to turn text into data. Using TypeChat, you can ensure that that data is type-safe JSON.