New tools give customers more control over encryption keys, cloud operations and AI workloads, including support for ...

SQL Server on Azure Local is generally available. Review disconnected deployment requirements, separate licensing, and recovery planning before adopting it. Microsoft has made SQL Server on Azure ...

Every organization has knowledge that is uniquely its own: the way its business operates, the data it has built over time, the expertise of its people and the context behind thousands of everyday ...

Microsoft will begin reporting Azure revenue in dollars for the first time, providing more clarity about its business that competes with Amazon Web Services. The company is trimming the number of ...

Microsoft makes Azure Arc-enabled Extended Security Updates generally available for Windows Server 2016 legacy workloads. Azure Arc ESUs provide critical security updates after Windows Server 2016 ...

Cineverse and its horror division Bloody Disgusting have acquired U.S. VOD and streaming rights to “Portal to Hell,” the Slamdance and Frightfest debut feature from Woody Bess. A limited theatrical ...

When my friend and Directions on Microsoft‘s editor-in-chief Mary Jo Foley wrote in late May that Azure Linux 4.0 would be available for bare-metal servers and virtual machines (VMs), I thought, “I’m ...

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Once you have Docker and sqlcmd installed, running a SQL Server instance with the needed sample database is as easy as running the following command: sqlcmd create ...

Microsoft recently announced Azure Linux 4.0 and Azure Container Linux at Open Source Summit North America 2026 in Minneapolis. Azure Linux 4.0 is a Fedora-based, general-purpose server distribution ...

You'll be able to run this Linux distro on both Azure and your desktop using Windows Subsystem for Linux. Here's what we know about it so far. I blinked. Backstage, Jim Zemlin, the Linux Foundation’s ...

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