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We’re pleased to announced Microsoft Envision 2017 will kick off on February 27, 2017 in Los Angeles, CA!

Details TBD.

• SITE: Microsoft Envision Web Site
  https://www.microsoft.com/en/Envision

Download the Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio Capabilities Overview diagram and get a high-level view of the capabilities of Machine Learning Studio.

To keep it nearby, you can print the diagram in tabloid size (11 x 17 in.).

Read more here:

• POST: Overview diagram of Azure Machine Learning Studio capabilities
  https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/machine-learning-studio-overview-diagram/
• DOWNLOAD: Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio Capabilities Overview
  http://aka.ms/mlstudiooverview

Download the Azure Machine Learning Algorithm Cheat Sheet and get help figuring out how to choose a machine learning algorithm for your solution.

To keep it nearby, you can print the diagram in tabloid size (11 x 17 in.).

Read more here:

• POST: Download the machine learning algorithm cheat sheet
  https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/machine-learning-algorithm-cheat-sheet/
• DOWNLOAD: Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Algorithm Cheat Sheet
  http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/6/1/A613E11E-8F9C-424A-B99D-65344785C288/microsoft-machine-learning-algorithm-cheat-sheet-v6.pdf

Toyota announced today that it’s creating a new company called Toyota Connected to serve as the carmaker’s data science hub as it seeks to connect cars to people’s daily lives. Microsoft’s Azure will be the cloud computing platform, providing a hybrid solution for everything Toyota Connected creates as it works to make driving more personal, more intuitive and safer.

“We’ve all been talking about big data for a long time, but we are at a unique point in history where the technology is catching up with what we hope to achieve by delivering new services and capabilities into the vehicle,” said Zack Hicks, president and chief executive officer of Toyota Connected.

Here’s the video from FOX Business, featuring Zack Hicks, CIO of Toyota North America, and CEO of Toyota Connected:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

• TOYOTA: Toyota Expands Focus on Software- and Data-Driven Mobility with Toyota Connected
  http://toyota.us/1qmBUku
• MICROSOFT: Toyota and Microsoft connect drivers to the future
  https://blogs.microsoft.com/transform/2016/04/04/toyota-and-microsoft-connect-drivers-to-the-future/

Other media coverage:

• Geekwire: Microsoft takes stake in new Toyota connected car subsidiary that utilizes Azure
  http://www.geekwire.com/2016/toyota-partners-microsoft-new-connected-car-subsidiary-utilizes-azure/
• CNBC: Toyota expands Microsoft partnership in connected vehicle services
  http://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/04/
• TechRepublic: Toyota partners with Microsoft on new data science company, Toyota Connected
  http://www.techrepublic.com/article/toyota-partners-with-microsoft-azure-on-new-data-science-company-toyota-connected/
• Investor’s Business Daily: Toyota Looks To Microsoft To Take On Tesla, Alphabet
  http://www.investors.com/news/toyota-ratchets-up-rivalry-with-tesla-alphabet-in-connected-cars/
• Reuters: Toyota expands Microsoft partnership in connected vehicle services
  http://www.reuters.com/article/us-toyota-connectivity-microsoft-idUSKCN0X11LL
• Fox Business (VIDEO): Toyota, Microsoft partner to develop cutting-edge tech for your car
  http://finance.yahoo.com/video/toyota-microsoft-partner-develop-cutting-113628993.html
• USATODAY: Toyota teams with Microsoft on connected cars
  http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2016/04/04/toyota-connected-car-microsoft/82602066/
• PCMAG: Toyota, Microsoft Launch Connected Cars Joint Venture
  http://in.pcmag.com/cars/102112/news/toyota-microsoft-launch-connected-cars-joint-ventu
• ZDNET: Toyota forms Toyota Connected, builds data science on Microsoft Azure
  http://www.zdnet.com/article/toyota-forms-toyota-connected-builds-data-science-on-microsoft-azure/
• Automotive News: Toyota teams with Microsoft on connected-car venture
  http://www.autonews.com/article/20160404/OEM06/160409916/toyota-microsoft-form-joint-venture-for-connected-technologies
• FORTUNE: Toyota teams with Microsoft on connected-car venture
  http://fortune.com/2016/04/04/toyota-microsoft-data/

Watch the Virtual Security Summit on demand now to:

• Learn about modern cybercriminals and their evolving tactics
• Hear how cyberwar and cyberterrorism affect you and your organization
• Learn from leading security experts about how they keep their organization safe
• Discover tools you can use to keep your people, platforms and devices secure

Agenda:

• The State of Cybersecurity
  P. W. Singer – Strategist & Senior Fellow, New America Foundation, and author, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know
• Who is the Modern Cybercriminal?
  James Lyne – Global Head of Security Research, Sophos
• Anatomy of a Breach: How Hackers Break In
  Matt Kemelhar – Director, Incident Response & Recovery, Microsoft
  Jim Moeller – Principal Cybersecurity Consultant, Microsoft
• Fighting Cybercrime with the Intelligent Security Graph
  Pete Boden – Cloud & Enterprise Infrastructure Security Services, Microsoft
  Richard Boscovich – Assistant General Counsel, Digital Crimes Unit, Microsoft
• Why You Should Trust the Cloud in These Tumultuous Times
  Dennis Garcia – Assistant General Counsel, Microsoft
• What is the Future of Cybersecurity?
  Paul Edlund – Chief Technologist, Microsoft
• Protecting Your Organization on a Single Security Platform
  Andrew Conway – Sr. Director, Product Marketing, Cloud Platform, Microsoft
  Alym Rayani – Group Product Manager, O365 Security, Microsoft
• Live Demo: Protecting against, Detecting and Responding to Threats
  Julia White – General Manager, Cloud & Enterprise, Microsoft
• Expert Perspective: Microsoft’s CISO on Cybersecurity
  Bret Arsenault – CISO, Microsoft

Visit:

• Microsoft Virtual Security Summit On Demand
  https://vts.inxpo.com/scripts/Server.nxp?LASCmd=AI:4;F:QS!10100&ShowKey=30260

Our Power BI Security web site has been updated to reflect the new Power BI v2 as well as the new Power BI Security whitepaper that we’ve created.

Data Storage Security
Power BI uses two primary repositories for storing and managing data: data that is uploaded from users is typically sent to Azure BLOB storage, and all metadata as well as artifacts for the system itself are stored in Azure SQL Database.

The dotted line in the Back End cluster image, above, clarifies the boundary between the only two components that are accessible by users (left of the dotted line), and roles that are only accessible by the system. When an authenticated user connects to the Power BI Service, the connection and any request by the client is accepted and managed by the Gateway Role (eventually to be handled by Azure API Management), which then interacts on the user’s behalf with the rest of the Power BI Service. For example, when a client attempts to view a dashboard, the Gateway Role accepts that request then separately sends a request to the Presentation Role to retrieve the data needed by the browser to render the dashboard.

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[taken from

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-admin-power-bi-security/]

If you haven’t seen it, you may want to check out our whitepaper on the topic:

• WHITEPAPER: Power BI Security
  http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/8/C/48CFCF8A-2025-4B97-B249-7B505E26E7ED/Power%20BI%20Security%20Whitepaper.docx

If you watched the BUILD 2016 keynote, you know that we announced something called “Bash on Windows”.  And if you were listening, you probably heard a lot of intense cheering and clapping when this was discussed.

For those that missed it, go to the URL below and fast forward to 38:08 where Kevin says the words, “…many devs struggled using Windows as their primary dev box.”

• Bash coming to Windows (38:08)
  https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/C906

This is a Bash shell running over an Ubuntu Subsystem running within Windows. 

For you old school folks, this is kiiiiinda like the old Services for UNIX product where we loaded a POSIX 2-compliant subsystem into Windows to provide the ability to use UNIX shell commands.  The difference is that you needed to cross compile any other tools you wanted.  This Bash shell doesn’t require this.   

To be clear:

• This is not a virtual machine of Ubuntu
• This is not an emulator of Ubuntu
• This does not require cross-compiling your tools

This is an environment which will provide Ubuntu users with traditional Bash commands & the ability to use any other powerful open source command line tools for Ubuntu along with the ability to run native Ubuntu binaries within the shell.

We did a side session on this exclusively at BUILD 2016:

• Running Bash on Ubuntu on Windows! (17:56)
  https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/P488

For an English language interpretation of this, read Dustin Kirkland’s synopsis.  He’s one of the guys from Canonical that helped make this possible and goes into more detail than what you’ll see in the media… well… cuz he’s the guy that wrote it.

• Ubuntu on Windows — The Ubuntu Userspace for Windows Developers
  http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/03/ubuntu-on-windows.html

For more on this announcement, check out the media coverage:

• ARSTECHNICA: Ubuntu’s Bash and Linux command line coming to Windows 10
  http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/ubuntus-bash-and-linux-command-line-coming-to-windows-10/
• THE VERGE: Microsoft is adding the Linux command line to Windows 10
  http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/30/11331014/microsoft-windows-linux-ubuntu-bash

The Microsoft Data Insights Summit 2016 from March 22-23 recorded all their keynotes & sessions!

What better way to start the Summit than by reflecting on the past year and, more importantly, discussing the future of modern BI? James Phillips – corporate vice president of Microsoft’s business applications, platform and intelligence organization – will cover the continued evolution of Power BI and the approach that’s shaping the service today and as we look to the future. Compelling technical demonstrations will showcase the potential of data and insights today, as well as offer a glimpse of what’s to come as we collectively continue on the journey to modern BI.

Check out the rest of the recordings here:

• TRAINING: Microsoft Data Insights Summit 2016 (Recordings)
  https://www.youtube.com/user/mspowerbi/playlists?view=50&shelf_id=7&sort=dd
• VIDEOS: Microsoft PowerBI (General)
  https://www.youtube.com/user/mspowerbi

Xbox One Backward Compatibility is here. Now you can play a growing number of your Xbox 360 games on Xbox One at no additional cost. With over 100 titles available now, and hundreds more in the months to come, Xbox One is now the best place to play your Xbox 360 games.  Experience the greatest games lineup in Xbox history—exclusively on Xbox One.

Xbox One Backward Compatibility is easy to use
The digital tiles that you own and are part of the Back Compat game catalog will automatically show up in the “Ready to Install” section on your Xbox One. For disc-based games that are a part of the Back Compat game catalog, insert the disc and the console will begin downloading the game to your hard drive. After the game has downloaded to your hard drive, users will still need to keep the game disc in the drive to play.

• For a living list of Xbox 360 titles that work on Xbox One visit:
  http://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/backward-compatibility
• For a text version of the list:
  http://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/backward-compatibility/available-games

Looking for an avatar graphic to demonstrate your love of Xbox?  Look no further than this collection, courtesy of Ken Microsoftee (@XboxFloat):

Grab them here!

• DOWNLOAD: Team Xbox Avatar graphics
  https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21ANDYE2qcxhQ0Iqk&id=C10F2A7D7CF351A3%21240819&cid=C10F2A7D7CF351A3

Interested in Microsoft’s vision for the Automotive Industry?  Here’s an excerpt of an article entitled “Cloud Driven: A Revolution in the Automotive Industry” in Atlantic Monthly that talks about just that:

Once thought of mainly as a tool for remote backup, the cloud is transforming global business by providing computing power on demand, and that change is nowhere clearer than in the automotive industry. As a platform for big-data analytics—the ability to find meaning in the undifferentiated data stream from every moving part of the Internet of Things—the cloud has revolutionized everything from design, manufacturing, and supply-chain to dealerships, customer experience, and the future of connected cars.

A great circle of cloud-based communication among cars, dealers, and manufacturers puts the owner-customer at its epicenter, promising highly responsive service, quick-turn design of new features, and hands-free productivity tools that seamlessly integrate the car with home and office. Even now, major auto makers are betting heavily that cars will themselves become an on-demand service, leaving ownership to fleets. The future is being built right now, thanks largely to the cloud.

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Here’s an index of topics covered:

• The Future of Sales, Showrooms, and Customer Experience
• Assembly Line and Automotive Value Chain
• The Connected Car
• The Great Data Loop
• Looking Ahead

Read more here:

• ATLANTIC: Microsoft excerpt: “Cloud Driven: A Revolution in the Automotive Industry”
  http://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/microsoft-2016/a-revolution-in-the-automotive-industry/849/