Every organization has knowledge that is uniquely its own: the way its business operates, the data it has built over time, the expertise of its people and the context behind thousands of everyday ...

Some of the world’s most critical databases run in places where cloud connectivity cannot be assumed. A remote industrial site, for example, may need production systems to continue operating when ...

Microsoft warned customers last week that they may experience application crashes on some Windows Server 2025 due to recent memory management changes. This known issue affects apps that use Address ...

If you are experiencing problems printing documents or creating PDFs, Microsoft says that the cause could well be a recent update. This time around, however, it is not updates for Windows 11 that are ...

If you’ve been building local prototypes, internal tools, web backends, or lightweight services on SQL Server Express, you know the routine: it’s free, familiar, and gets the job done – until you hit ...

Microsoft Copilot is an AI-powered assistant integrated into Microsoft 365 applications, designed to simplify complex workflows and boost productivity. In his guide, David Fortin explores how to make ...

As of today, July 14, 2026, SQL Server 2016 has reached end of support. For the past decade, SQL Server 2016 has helped organizations run mission-critical applications and support the data needs of ...

When my friend and Directions on Microsoft‘s editor-in-chief Mary Jo Foley wrote in late May that Azure Linux 4.0 would be available for bare-metal servers and virtual machines (VMs), I thought, “I’m ...

Microsoft has extended Windows Server 2022 hotpatching until October 2027, one year after the mainstream end date of October 2026. This comes with the following caveat: extended support is only ...

Village of Mount Pleasant, Wis. — June 23, 2026 — Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced that it has completed construction of its first datacenter facility in the Village of Mount Pleasant, after ...

Learn Microsoft Access from scratch with this complete beginner-friendly tutorial! Follow step by step to create and manage databases confidently. #MicrosoftAccess #DatabaseManagement ...

While Microsoft sweeps the confetti off the floor of its Build event, it may be a good moment to reflect on what it didn't say as much as what it did. Taking the spotlight was AI agent Scout, ready to ...