Visual Studio on-line goes GA

Visual Studio on-line team  announced the General Availability of Visual Studio. Both personal and professional development can be carried out on this platform. It carries with it a (Service Level Agreement) SLA of 99.9% availability.

The regular pricing will start from May 7, 2014 and marks the end of the Early Adopter program. If you are signed up for early adopter program, the account will be transitioned to a regular account.In this account, the following are still free,

5 Visual Studio Online Basic User Plans
Unlimited MSDN Subscribers
60 build minutes per month
1500 virtual user minutes of Cloud Load Testing

If these are good enough there is no need for early adopter to take any action.If you need more just link your Visual Studio on-line account to your Windows Azure Account.

For clarification and more information visit this MSDN blog link (2/28/20140:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2014/02/28/visual-studio-online-early-adoption-period-extended.aspx

Bank of New Zealand (BNZ), an early adopter of SQL Server 2012 feels good

BNZ tried earlier to get their BI act together with SAS, SAP and even SQL Server 2008 R2 but there were excessive delays in getting BI views from their huge data. With SQL Server 2012 and the PowerView feature, it appears they can now provide 80 Views every week. This is a great thing going for MSFT. Self-service BI feature of SQL Server 2012 removed the dependance on DB staff and
hastened up the whole process.

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