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Brad Sams has more than a decade of writing and publishing experience under his belt including helping to establish new and seasoned publications From breaking news about upcoming Microsoft products to telling the story of how a billion dollar brand was birthed in his book, Beneath a Surface, Brad is a well-rounded journalist who has established himself as a trusted name in the industry.

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Microsoft’s New F Series Azure VMs Target The Gaming Community

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft has announced a new series of VMs for Azure, called the F series, that is targeted at gamers and other web services.

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Microsoft’s Session List For Ignite Is Live, 463 Options To Choose From

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft has released the session list for its Ignite conference and this year will have over 400 sessions to choose from.

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Microsoft’s Making A Serious Commitment To Apache Spark

Last Update: Jun 27, 2025

Microsoft has announced new support for Apache Spark and is also making some of its services generally available as well.

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SQL Server 2016 Reaches General Availability

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

SQL Server 2016 has reached general availability, meaning that the software is now ready for production environments.

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Enterprise Agenda: Best Practices for Building Your Available Datacenter

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Knowing the best practices of any industry can help you avoid common pitfalls and in this edition of the Enterprise Agenda, we take a look at the best practices for data centers.

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Microsoft Increases Baseline Specs Required for Windows 10 Anniversary Update

Last Update: Jul 01, 2025

This summer, when the Anniversary update comes out for Windows 10, Microsoft will be increasing the baseline specs for 32bit machines.

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The Sams Report EP 40: Glorious Feature Phones, Promoted Apps and Google Gafs

Last Update: Sep 24, 2024

On this episode, I cover the all the news that Microsoft announced this week including feature phones going bye bye, browsers market share, promoted apps and its impossible to avoid Google I/O.

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Microsoft Closes the Book on Nokia Assets, Ending in Disaster

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft has sold off the last remaining asset it had from the Nokia acquisition, marking an end to the disastrous chapter of the Steve Ballmer era.

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Microsoft and SAP Announce New Partnership, Bringing Two Giants Closer Together

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft and SAP have announced a new partnership that will allow SAP ERP software to run on Azure and new Office 365 integration points in SAP applications.

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Microsoft Expands Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection Preview

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft is expanding its newly announced Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection preview program to include more companies, and you can sign up now to test it out.

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For Microsoft, Its Achilles’ Heel Is Excel

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft’s productivity future is based heavily on the fact that corporations are addicted to Excel, and there is not a compelling alternative.

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Microsoft Enhances Azure SaaS Platform with SQL Elastic Pools and CDN Options

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft has announced the general availability of two new featurs for Azure: SQL database elastic pools and a partnership with Akamai for Azure CDN.

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