Every year Microsoft has held the Build conference for developers. I've been lucky enough to go a few times, and I was hoping to get the chance to attend again. With the pandemic, the entire event went virtual, and was held across 48 continuous hours. I was slightly disappointed as a few sessions I wanted […]
2020-05-23
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A security breach at Microsoft is disconcerting, especially when they don't share details.
2020-03-05
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The Azure Sphere project is a great piece of research at Microsoft that might help us data professionals with security.
2019-11-25
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2019-11-11
328 reads
Microsoft has grown and changed their culture in the last few years, which greatly impresses Steve.
2019-11-01
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Microsoft talks about evergreen SQL, where you never need to patch your database.
2019-07-24
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Microsoft has embraced open source software, and has opened much of their code. They have also proven that DevOps development can scale in this environment.
2019-07-17
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Microsoft announced that Linux runs on more machines in Azure than Windows. Steve isn't surprised and thinks that Linux use will continue to grow.
2019-07-06
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2019-06-26
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Windows 7 support is ending, but Microsoft doesn't have a good plan for home users. Steve notes that the OS upgrade treadmill ought to come to an end soon.
2019-06-13
187 reads
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