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A better way to work with SQL Server

It’s time to switch to a new development tool for SQL Server and Azure SQL. Here’s how to get started with the MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code.

By Simon Bisson

May 14, 20268 mins

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Startups accuse Microsoft of ‘billing trap’ in Azure AI Foundry after unexpected charges

By Anirban Ghoshal

Mar 16, 20264 mins

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OpenAI launches stateful AI on AWS, signaling a control plane power shift

By Taryn Plumb

Feb 27, 20268 mins

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Microsoft’s Copilot push irks customers, stirs FTC

Pushing Copilot on customers raises antitrust concerns as the end of Windows 10 forces hardware purchases and customer frustrations mount.

By David Linthicum

Feb 24, 2026 6 mins

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Why cloud outages are becoming normal

Monthly cloud outages, like the recent Azure one, continue to disrupt enterprises worldwide. The culprits include hiring challenges, neglected resilience, and increasing complexity.

By David Linthicum

Feb 17, 2026 6 mins

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What’s next for Azure containers?

More from Mark Russinovich’s Ignite 2025 sessions, detailing software developments that underpin Microsoft’s move to serverless containers.

By Simon Bisson

Jan 1, 2026 9 mins

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What’s next for Azure infrastructure

Azure CTO Mark Russinovich’s annual “Inside Azure Innovations” presentations give us a look at cooling innovations, bare-metal servers, and better storage.

By Simon Bisson

Dec 18, 2025 9 mins

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Agentic cloud ops with the new Azure Copilot

Azure Copilot’s six new AI agents assist with a wide range of Azure cloud management tasks, either on their own or working together.

By Simon Bisson

Nov 27, 2025 8 mins

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Azure HorizonDB: Microsoft goes big with PostgreSQL

Microsoft’s latest database is a fast, scalable PostgreSQL for cloud-native and AI developers.

By Simon Bisson

Nov 20, 2025 8 mins

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Microsoft Fabric IQ adds ‘semantic intelligence’ layer to Fabric

Where Microsoft promises enterprises better understanding of their data for workers and autonomous agents alike, analysts fear deployment hurdles and vendor lock-in.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Nov 19, 2025 6 mins

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Microsoft touts scalability of its new PostgreSQL-compatible managed database

Third time’s the charm? Microsoft hopes the scalability of Azure HorizonDB, will lure new customers where its two existing PostgreSQL databases did not.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Nov 19, 2025 4 mins

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Running managed Ray on Azure Kubernetes Service

Microsoft is working with Anyscale to help you build, train, and run your own ML models with PyTorch on AKS.

By Simon Bisson

Nov 13, 2025 7 mins

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Run Azure DevOps on premises

Building code as a team doesn’t require handing over everything to the cloud.

By Simon Bisson

Oct 30, 2025 8 mins

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Using Valkey on Azure and in .NET Aspire

The open source Redis fork is slowly getting support across Microsoft’s various platforms.

By Simon Bisson

Oct 16, 2025 7 mins

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Using Microsoft’s Data API builder for Azure databases

Microsoft’s declarative REST and GraphQL API design tool supports MySQL and Postgres as well as Azure databases and works anywhere you can run a Docker container.

By Simon Bisson

Oct 2, 2025 8 mins

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Visualizing the world with Planetary Computer

Startups accuse Microsoft of ‘billing trap’ in Azure AI Foundry after unexpected charges

OpenAI launches stateful AI on AWS, signaling a control plane power shift

Articles

Microsoft’s Copilot push irks customers, stirs FTC

Why cloud outages are becoming normal

What’s next for Azure containers?

What’s next for Azure infrastructure

Agentic cloud ops with the new Azure Copilot

Azure HorizonDB: Microsoft goes big with PostgreSQL

Microsoft Fabric IQ adds ‘semantic intelligence’ layer to Fabric

Microsoft touts scalability of its new PostgreSQL-compatible managed database

Running managed Ray on Azure Kubernetes Service

Run Azure DevOps on premises

Using Valkey on Azure and in .NET Aspire

Using Microsoft’s Data API builder for Azure databases

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Self-Driving Data at Scale: How GM & IQVIA Operationalize Data Trust for the Agentic Enterprise

Simplifying Hybrid Cloud Security

Stop Managing Clusters and Start Managing the Fleet: The Full Stack Kubernetes Advantage