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With Build being this month a lot of the announcements came out via Build and while it is a developer conference I would say most of the stuff is not traditional dev focused. I would also mention that almost nothing here is applicable today, they are more where are we headed. Speaking of headed, if…

Satya Nadella announces there will be significant changes coming to Windows, Microsoft starts rolling out the Windows 10 May 2021 Update, and Edge 91 makes it to the Stable channel. And there’s a whole load more this month, so let’s get started. Windows 10 May 2021 Update (21H1) is now generally available Microsoft made the…

Microsoft’s Build conference was on last week and it gave us lots of AI, Machine Learning, and every other type of “machines doe it better” cloud tech announcements. But there were also a few infrastructure announcements during the month. I’ve become the “Azure networking” person at my job, so it’s no surprise (to me) that…

Microsoft announced at Build that Windows Package Manager (WPM) v1.0 is now generally available. First announced in May 2020, WPM has been in development for over a year. But now it’s finally ready for you to use. In this Winget Guide, I’ll show you how to get it and how it works. How to get…

Unless you’ve been working out of a cave, you’ve probably heard that containers are the future in app development and that many businesses have been looking into using Docker, Kubernetes, and other containerized solutions to update their applications. However, moving to a new containerized platform can be difficult – requiring the mastery of lots of…

We have just over a year until Internet Explorer hits another ‘major’ milestone on its way to riding into the sunset. June 15, 2022, to be exact. This is the date the desktop application of Internet Explorer 11 on supported versions of the Windows 10 Semi-Annual Channel (SAC) will go out of support and be…

Last week Microsoft announced improvements to its cloud-native SIEM product, Azure Sentinel. In an effort to make Sentinel more efficient for Security Operations (SecOps) teams, Microsoft has improved the quality of rules and includes more innate intelligence out-of-the-box. There’s also built-in support for SAP in preview. Plus, other features like UEBA and entity pages, which…

Earlier this month, Microsoft confirmed that Windows 10X was not coming to market but that the technologies built for that product, would migrate to Windows 10. This week, Microsoft is hosting its Build conference and while there was not much news for Windows fans, CEO Satya Nadella confirmed that the next update to the OS…

Late last year, Microsoft announced that the company would be exclusively licensing the GPT-3 language model from OpenAI. And today at Build, the company has announced the first implementation of GPT-3 into one of its products, Power Apps. GPT-3 is one of the most advanced langue models in the world and Microsoft is looking to…

This week, Microsoft is hosting its annual developer conference called Build. For the second year in a row, the conference is virtual-only and you can watch the event online but for those looking for what’s new for Teams, here’s a breakdown of the announcements. Microsoft Teams’ growth exploded during 2020 thanks to the pandemic and…

When Satya Nadella took over as CEO at Microsoft, he stated that one of the company’s most valuable assets were its APIs. And when it comes to productivity, the Microsoft Graph API is where all the roads point towards when building out applications and experiences. At the company’s Build conference this week, the company announced…

The past couple of weeks have been filled with unease in the Windows community. With the end of Windows 10X before it even reached the market, the future is a bit uncertain while we wait for Microsoft to fully unveil the next big update to Windows 10 known as Sun Valley. But there is another…