Windows 11 26H2 is the next major free update for all Windows users. Among other things, it brings improvements to Explorer, camera control, and AI. Here's an overview.

As I described here, Power BI can send SQL queries in parallel in DirectQuery mode and you can see from the Timeline column there is some parallelism happening here – the last two SQL queries ...

Former senior Microsoft Corp. executive Steven Sinofsky sought Jeffrey Epstein’s advice as he negotiated the terms of his exit from the company and worked through what to do next, according to ...

PCWorld reports that Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 preview update brings AI text generation and improvement tools to Notepad, similar to chatbot functionality. The update also expands Markdown support ...

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Microsoft this week confirmed that it is killing off the Windows desktop application of a free productivity app called Sway. The app was released more than ten years ago and has been part of the ...

It looks like Microsoft Edge is set to gain a major UI refresh in the coming months, as the latest Edge Canary and Dev Channel builds have started showing an updated interface that takes heavy design ...

Abstract: To suppress background noise in magnetic anomaly detection (MAD), a signal enhancement method is developed. This approach combines complete ensemble empirical mode decomposition with ...

Microsoft and Constellation Energy are teaming up to restart the long-dormant Three Mile Island nuclear reactor in Pennsylvania. The companies are backed by a $1 billion federal energy loan, part of ...

With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work. Today, at Ignite, Microsoft announced the general availability of SQL ...

Microsoft Corp. signed an agreement to put to rest accusations that it used a litmus test to deny software discounts to conservative faith-based groups. Alliance Defending Freedom, a legal advocacy ...

The new managed functions will let enterprises apply LLM reasoning to structured and unstructured data directly in SQL, eliminating prompt tuning and external tools. Google has boosted its BigQuery ...