Month: March 2019

Starting at 2:00 p.m. PST today, members of the Xbox One Preview Alpha and Preview Beta Rings will begin receiving the latest 1904 Xbox One system update (19H1_RELEASE_XBOX_DEV_1904\18362.2006.190325-1920). Read on for more about the new features, fixes and known issues in the latest 1904 system update.   DETAILS: OS version released: 19H1_RELEASE_XBOX_DEV_1904\18362.2006.190325-1920 Available: 2:00PM PDT 3/27/19 Mandatory Date/Time: 3:00 AM PDT 3/28/19   Fixes:   Audio We have fixed the issues of No Audio heard from Non-Spatial Audio games when using Dolby Atmos for Home Theater with the LG SJ9 soundbar. My Games and Apps We are have fixed the… Continue reading March 27th : New Preview Alpha and Preview Beta 1904 Update (1904.190325-1920)→

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing 20H1 Build 18865 to Windows Insiders who have opted into Skip Ahead. Remember – these builds are from the 20H1 development branch. Some things we are working on in 20H1 require a longer lead time. IMPORTANT: As is normal with builds early in the development cycle, these builds […]

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Global industry partners join effort to connect data and gather powerful insights fueled by AI and intelligent services LAS VEGAS — March 27, 2019 — Wednesday at Adobe Summit, the industry’s leading customer experience conference, Adobe (Nasdaq: ADBE) CEO Shantanu Narayen and Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT” @microsoft) CEO Satya Nadella revealed additional details about the Open […ellipsis]

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Sorry for having been quiet for so long. In addition to the usual holiday lull, I’ve also been working on migrating this blog to GitHub Pages which has necessitated a lot of manual cleanup and formatting moving from WordPress to Markdown. In any case, the new location for the Games for Windows and DirectX SDK… Continue reading The blog moves on→

To run mainframe workloads on Microsoft Azure, you need to know how your mainframe’s capabilities compare to Azure. Based on an IBM z14 mainframe, this guide by Larry Mead of AzureCAT explores how to get comparable results on Azure. The massively scala… Continue reading NEW WHITEPAPER: Move mainframe compute and storage to Azure→

New integrations with Autodesk—an innovator in the CAD industry—allow you to connect AutoCAD and its drafting tools to DWG files stored in Microsoft OneDrive and SharePoint.
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First published on MSDN on Jan 01, 2013 The Memory Consumer with Many Names Have you ever wondered what Memory grants are? What about QE Reservations ? And Query Execution Memory ? Workspace memory ? How about Memory Reservations ? As wi… Continue reading Memory Grants Meditation: The mysterious SQL Server memory consumer with Many Names→