Month: August 2019

Today were announcing the availability of the first public release candidate for SQL Server 2019, which is now available for download. SQL Server 2019 brings the industry-leading performance and security of SQL Server to Windows, Linux, and containers and can tackle any data workload from business intelligence to data warehousing to analytics and AI over

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A top piece of feedback we’ve heard from Microsoft Edge Insiders is that you want to be able to roam your settings and browsing data across your work or school accounts in Microsoft Edge. Today, we’re excited to announce that Azure Active Directory work and school accounts now support sign-in and sync in the latest […]

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Microsoft has invested in confidential computing for many years, so Im excited to announce that Microsoft will join industry partners to create the Confidential Computing Consortium, a new organization that will be hosted at The Linux Foundation. The Confidential Computing Consortium will be dedicated to defining and accelerating the adoption of confidential computing. Confidential computing

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Public competitions often help to advance the state of the art in challenging research problems. They frame a question, provide relevant data, and define evaluation metrics so that researchers across the world can work toward a shared goal—and ultimately learn from each other’s advances. The TextWorld team at Microsoft Research Montreal proposed “First TextWorld Problems” […]

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So you want your site to be available over secure HTTP and you already know that you need an SSL certificate. Still, many things can go wrong. I’m not going to document a specific error; rather I’d say how SChannel, TLS, keys and CAPI fit in, and where… Continue reading About HTTPS, SChannel, TLS, CAPI, SSL Certificates and their keys→

Episode 86, August 21, 2019- The ability to read and understand unstructured text, and then answer questions about it, is a common skill among literate humans. But for machines? Not so much. At least not yet! And not if Dr. T.J. Hazen, Senior Principal Research Manager in the Engineering and Applied Research group at MSR Montreal, has a say. He’s spent much of his career working on machine speech and language understanding, and particularly, of late, machine reading comprehension, or MRC.

On today’s podcast, Dr. Hazen talks about why reading comprehension is so hard for machines, gives us an inside look at the technical approaches applied researchers and their engineering colleagues are using to tackle the problem, and shares the story of how an a-ha moment with a Rubik’s Cube inspired a career in computer science and a quest to teach computers to answer complex, text-based questions in the real world.

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Azure SQL is a modern SQL platform that provides simple discovery, creation, and management by unifying SQL Server offerings in Azure. In this platform, you will see an overview of all Azure SQL offerings along with a guided create experience. You will… Continue reading Unified Azure SQL experience→

Hi everyone, today we have a post co-authored by Intune Support Escalation Engineer Saurabh Koshta and Intune Support Engineer Matt Gardner. In this post they discuss how you can use group tags to control device enrollment options via Windows… Continue reading Support Tip: Using group tags to import devices into Intune with Autopilot→