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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Microsoft has quietly removed the long-standing, user-facing option to permanently switch off automatic app updates in the Microsoft Store for many consumer devices, replacing it with a pause-only model that forces automatic updates to resume after a short, fixed interval (commonly one through...
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Where growth happens, trust must follow. In the enterprise technology landscape, this idea has become more than advice; it’s a survival strategy. As organizations race to the cloud and digital transformation reshapes every industry, the relationship between security and user experience now forms...
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