Month: June 2020

Pride started because Black and Latinx transgender people stood up against injustice at Stonewall, New York in 1969. The systemic racism and violence targeted against the Black and African American community, especially transgender Black women, shows us that we don’t live in a truly equitable society. And global issues, including the COVID-19 pandemic, are exacerbating…

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gRPC-Web for .NET is now officially released. We announced experimental support in January and since then we’ve been making improvements based on feedback from early adopters.

With this release gRPC-Web graduates to a fully supported component of the grpc-dotnet project and is ready for production. Use gRPC in the browser with gRPC-Web and .N Continue reading gRPC-Web for .NET now available→

 
We’ve been living with passwords for so long that it can be hard to imagine a world without them, but that is what Microsoft and other members of the FIDO (Fast Identity Online) Alliance are working toward. The FIDO Alliance has defined, and co… Continue reading Inside Identity: Moving to a passwordless world with the FIDO Alliance→

Sometimes a tie is exactly what Dad wants for Father’s Day, but not very often. Plus, it isn’t likely to convey to your father how much he means to you – Dad jokes and all. But a PowerPoint presentation that you personalize with photos and videos of your times together, all set to a recording […]

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Editor’s Note: The author would like to give special thanks to his collaborators, Ardalan Amiri Sani, Professor of Computer Science at UC Irvine, Sung Eun (Summer) Kim, Professor of Law at UC Irvine, and UC Irvine students Saeed Mirzamohammadi, Yuxin (Myles) Liu, and Tianmei Ann Huang. In addition to my day job at Microsoft Research, […]

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Executive summary
 
In Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance, the background process that updates statistics asynchronously can now wait for the schema modification lock on a low priority queue. This improves concurrency for workloads … Continue reading Improving concurrency of asynchronous statistics update→

To empower mass adoption of ultra-fast, low-latency laptop connectivity, Lenovo is partnering with Verizon, EE, Sunrise and CMCC. These mobile network operators are committed to making 5G computing a reality for consumers around the world. These collaborations follow the unveiling earlier this year of the Lenovo Yoga 5G (known as Lenovo Flex 5G in the […]

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One of my now-retired colleagues joined Microsoft back in the early days when Steve Ballmer was the mail boy.
As I noted, the company at the time was very small. An order arrived in the mail (because that’s how you ordered software back then) for a copy of what I vaguely recall was Microsoft FOCAL, but don’t quote me on that. (I used to a h Continue reading Excuse me, has anybody seen the FOCAL interpreter?→