Sharing global insights from the World Bank on cloud adoption for governments

 
Working with governments and public sector agencies around the world, we often find that people have the same questions about cloud, the benefits, the risks – and what it even is. 
 
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Early technical preview of JDBC Driver 11.1.2 for SQL Server released

We have released a new early technical preview of the JDBC Driver for SQL Server which contains several additions and changes.
 
Precompiled binaries are available on GitHub and also on Maven Central.
 
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Welcome to the best browser for gamers

New gaming features in Microsoft Edge, the best browser for gamers

Did you know there are more than 3 billion gamers in the world? That is almost half of the population on the entire planet! This global community of people share a p

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GODEL: Combining goal-oriented dialog with real-world conversations

They make restaurant recommendations, help us pay bills, and remind us of appointments. Many people have come to rely on virtual assistants and chatbots to perform a wide range of routine tasks. But what if a single dialog agent, the technology behind these language-based apps, could perform all these tasks and then take the conversation […]

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Detecting malicious key extractions by compromised identities for Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed NoSQL cloud database service for modern app development. It offers a variety of advanced built-in features, such as automatic worldwide data replication, lightning-fast response types, and a variety of APIs. In this blog post, we describe security practices for securing access to Azure Cosmos DB and show how monitoring relevant control plane operations can help in the detection of potentially compromised authorization.

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Announcing the new support engineer certification for Microsoft Exchange Online

We’re happy to announce that the new Microsoft 365 Certified: Exchange Online Support Engineer Specialty certification for the support engineer job role is now in general availability. To earn this certification, you must pass Exam MS-22… Continue reading Announcing the new support engineer certification for Microsoft Exchange Online

Privacy changes and API support for Microsoft 365 usage reports – Rolling out starting June 23

At Microsoft, we are committed to both data-driven insights and user privacy. As part of that commitment, we made a change in September 2021 to Microsoft 365 usage analytics to conceal user group and site names by default.  Starting on June 23rd, we wi… Continue reading Privacy changes and API support for Microsoft 365 usage reports – Rolling out starting June 23