Five Microsoft Platforms You Should Know and Visit

Yasindu Sanjeewa
4 min readFeb 8, 2024

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Are you interested in learning new skills, building cloud applications, staying updated on software development, launching your own startup, or connecting with other Microsoft enthusiasts and experts? If yes, then you are reading exact article, because Microsoft has a lot of websites that can help you achieve your goals with Microsoft technologies. In this blog post, I will introduce and review five of the most useful and popular Microsoft websites that you should know and visit. Links in the end of the article

Microsoft Learn

Microsoft Learn is a platform that offers free online courses and certifications on various Microsoft products and services. You can use Microsoft Learn to acquire new skills, prepare for exams, or advance your career with Microsoft technologies. Microsoft Learn provides interactive learning paths and modules that are tailored to your needs, goals, and experience level. You can also earn points, levels, and badges to track your progress and showcase your achievements. Microsoft Learn covers a wide range of topics, such as Azure, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, .NET, Visual Studio, Windows, AI, and more. You can access Microsoft Learn from any device and learn at your own pace. You can also join the Microsoft Learn community and connect with other learners and experts.

I have completed 80+ modules. Also, I have earned 145 badges.

My MS Learn profile

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing service that enables users to build, deploy, and manage applications and services using Microsoft tools and frameworks. Azure offers a wide range of features and capabilities, such as compute, storage, networking, databases, AI and machine learning, IoT, DevOps, and security. These features and capabilities allow users to run different workloads and scenarios on the cloud, store and manage data, connect and secure their cloud resources, create intelligent and innovative solutions, connect, monitor, and control devices and sensors, develop, test, deploy, and manage applications and services, and protect their data and resources with the highest standards of security and compliance.

Microsoft For Startups

Microsoft Startups is a program that supports startups with Microsoft resources, guidance, mentorship, and access to customers and investors. It helps startups to launch and grow their businesses with Microsoft technologies, such as Azure, GitHub, Microsoft 365, and more. It offers various benefits and opportunities to startups, such as free Azure credits, technical guidance, mentorship, customer and investor access, and co-selling and co-marketing. To join Microsoft Startups, startups need to meet the following eligibility criteria:

  • Building a software-based product or service
  • Privately held and for-profit
  • Pre-Series D or privately funded.
  • Have not previously received more than $10,000 in Azure credits.

Microsoft Dev Blogs

Microsoft Dev Blogs are a collection of blogs that provide news, updates, and best practices on software development with Microsoft technologies. You can use Microsoft Dev Blogs to stay informed and inspired by the latest innovations and insights from Microsoft engineers and experts. Microsoft Dev Blogs cover a wide range of topics and categories, such as .NET, ASP.NET, Blazor, Entity Framework, ML.NET, NuGet, Xamarin, C#, F#, Visual Basic, and Popular Topics. These topics and categories cover various aspects of building apps, web applications and services, interactive web UIs, data access, machine learning, package management, native mobile apps, programming languages, and developer community interests with Microsoft technologies.

Microsoft Tech Community

Microsoft Tech Community is a community that connects users with other Microsoft enthusiasts and experts, and hosts forums and events on various Microsoft topics. You can use Microsoft Tech Community to ask questions and get answers from Microsoft engineers and MVPs, share your feedback and suggestions with Microsoft product teams, learn from webinars, podcasts, blogs, and videos on Microsoft technologies, join discussions and groups on topics such as Azure, Microsoft 365, Windows, Power Platform, and more, attend online and in-person events, such as Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft Build, and Microsoft Inspire, and earn badges and recognition for your contributions and achievements. Microsoft Tech Community is a great place to learn, network, and grow with Microsoft technologies.

These websites can help you with your development, entrepreneurship, and learning journey with Microsoft technologies. They can provide you with valuable information, resources, opportunities, and support. I encourage you to visit these websites and explore what they have to offer. You can also find links to each website in the blog post for more information and resources.

hope you have learned from this blog post. If you have any questions, feedback, or suggestions, please feel free to leave a comment below. I would love to hear from you and help you with your Microsoft journey. Thank you for reading and happy learning!

Links To the Websites

MS Startups — https://www.microsoft.com/startups/?wt_mc_id=studentamb_296644

MS Learn — https://learn.microsoft.com/training/browse/?wt.mc_id=studentamb_296644

MS Azure — https://azure.microsoft.com/?wt_mc_id=studentamb_296644

MS Dev Blogs — https://devblogs.microsoft.com/?wt_mc_id=studentamb_296644

MS Cloud Blogs — https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-cloud/blog/?wt_mc_id=studentamb_296644

Visual Studio — https://code.visualstudio.com/?wt_mc_id=studentamb_296644

MS Developer — https://developer.microsoft.com/?wt_mc_id=studentamb_296644

MS Tech Community — https://social.technet.microsoft.com/?wt_mc_id=studentamb_296644

MS Technet — https://social.technet.microsoft.com/?wt_mc_id=studentamb_296644

Social MSDN — https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/?wt_mc_id=studentamb_296644

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