This morning I took my car to be repaired. The mechanic shook his head: “This is a new model,” he said. “I’ve no idea how it works.” Later, I visited the hospital to discuss a planned operation. I asked the surgeon if she would use a new technique I’d read about online. “Oh, that sounds interesting,” she said. “I’d never heard of that before.”

Okay, okay: none of this actually happened. But imagine how shocked you would be if it did. We simply assume that professionals keep up to date with the changing state of knowledge that’s necessary to do their job.

We’re often told that Switzerland is the most innovative country in the world. At least, I’m often told that, when I give talks challenging companies in Switzerland to be more innovative. People in my audience point to various rankings which put Switzerland at #1, and say we can’t be that bad.

No doubt those rankings are measuring something meaningful. But I doubt they are measuring innovation in our day-to-day lives – at least, not judging by a recent trip I made to America.

At an internal meeting, Satya mentioned that the future will be containerization and serverless! Inspired by this statement, I started to read up specifically on serverless and here is what I found!

Keep learning! This is todays theme. If the benefits mentioned in the video by Dave aren’t doing it for you, then you’ll be happy to learn that we have a little promo ready for you!

Resources mentioned:
– Azure Skills: http://msft.social/digL5Z
– Summer School 2017 – promo: http://msft.social/TNuAh9

Originally published on YouTube by MicrosoftCH

End of April we held our first-ever Microsoft Security Days and it was a huge success. We were overrun with interest of individuals wanting to participate. In this Episode Dave Kurth is joined by Philipp Hunold, member of the Enterprise Security Group, to talk about the event and what you can do right now to increase the security of your environment.