Microsoft’s latest Windows Azure update is a clear, targeted push to make the cloud platform cheaper and more practical for developers and QA teams—by changing how compute is billed, relaxing license restrictions for MSDN subscribers, and adding a set of developer-centric services that shorten...
Microsoft has pushed the first public Release Candidate (RC0) of SQL Server 2025 into preview with two headline changes that matter to every Windows-centric IT team experimenting with Linux-first development: official Ubuntu 24.04 support for dev/test scenarios and TLS 1.3 enabled by default...
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enterprise evaluation
ga certification
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