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Postgres IDE in VS Code

We are excited to announce the public preview of the brand-new PostgreSQL extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code), designed to simplify PostgreSQL...

Windows Sandbox

Microsoft announces Lists, a new Airtable-like app

Microsoft Lists is a Microsoft 365 app that helps you track information and organize your work. Lists are simple, smart, and flexible, so you can stay on top...

DTrace on Windows

Introducing DTrace on Windows 10 

Teams is killing my Mac every day

I have a hard time believing I'm the first person to post this after not finding anything in the forum.  I wouldn't doubt if Microsoft is deleting them...

Phi-4: Microsoft's Newest Small Language Model Specializing in Complex Reasoning

Today we are introducing Phi-4, our 14B parameter state-of-the-art small language model (SLM) that excels at complex reasoning in areas such as math, in...

One Windows Kernel

In this blog post, I will talk about the evolution of the core pieces of the Windows kernel that allows it to transparently scale across a low power NVidia...

Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell

Throughout Excel's 40-year history, you've only been able to put one value per cell. In this announcement, we're excited to share how that's changing with...

XLOOKUP for Excel

Lambda: Turn Excel formulas into custom functions

Announcing LAMBDA: Turn Excel formulas into custom functions

The implementation of the UK Covid-19 dashboard

Why and how the UK Coronavirus Dashboard team built their analytics service on top of PostgreSQL & Citus on Azure.

How Microsoft reduced Windows 11 update size by 40%

Reducing update size is important to you, and to us. Explore the techniques we used in Windows 11.  

Windows will improve user privacy with DNS over HTTPS

Announcing and explaining our intention to support DNS over HTTPS in future versions of Windows

When it comes to composition and length, passwords mostly don't matter

When it comes to composition and length, your password (mostly) doesn’t matter.

Microsoft Whiteboard is now generally available for Windows

Today we are pleased to announce the general availability of the Microsoft Whiteboard app for Windows 10. Whiteboard gives teams a freeform, intelligent...

Windows 11's default mail client will show ads starting 2024

Original Publish Date: June 2023 | MC650424 Revised Date: August 30, 2023, based on Microsoft's Updated Message See text in red font.   Microsoft's...

Windows Protected Print Mode

Over the past year, the MORSE team has been working in collaboration with the Windows Print team to modernize the Windows Print System. This new design,...

Improving Postgres Connection Scalability: Snapshots

Improving connection scalability in Postgres 14. From the neat to the gritty: snapshot scalability edition.

Lambdas as values in Excel

Excel has new LAMBDA functions

New Text and Array Functions for Excel

We are excited to announce fourteen new Excel functions that will allow you to easily manipulate text and arrays.

Microsoft Defender ATP for Linux is now generally available

Today we are excited to announce general availability of Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) for Linux! - This initial release delivers...

Analyzing the Limits of Connection Scalability in Postgres

Why it’s important to improve Postgres connection scalability, plus an analysis on the limits of connection scalability today.