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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…

In a surprise development, Microsoft has released the source code for the Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) on GitHub. Fans of the non-SQL database engine, which has powered every version of Exchange since the initial 4.0 release twenty-five years ago, now have the chance to peruse the ESE code. Although Microsoft isn’t accepting suggestions to improve…

The first month of the year has come and gone but here is a recap of the Azure announcements for January.

November has come and gone but for those looking to catch-up on Azure, here’s what you need to know.

With August now behind us, here’s a look at the major announcements from this month.

June 2020 marks the end of Vibranium and the start of Manganese, the codenames for the ending and starting half-year semesters in the Azure development year.

Last month I kind of wrapped up 2019. But this month I want to look forward. While I would love to talk about things that I might or might know about, such a violation of my non-disclosure agreement would get me in trouble with Redmond. So instead, I want to talk about what I think we IT pros need to learn about in 2020 to stay relevant.

During May, the month was filled with Azure announcements, here are the key items that you need to know about.

Microsoft now owns GitHub and paid $7.5 billion for the privilege but the big question is what happens next?

Microsoft is buying GitHub, an online code repository company that is popular collaboration tool and a social network for developers.