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We’re pleased to share that SQLAlchemy 2.1.0 is now generally available, with built-in support for mssql-python, Microsoft’s Python driver for SQL Server. You can now use it with SQLAlchemy’s ORM and ...

Microsoft's September 2026 cumulative updates are causing Remote Desktop Services failures on Windows Server 2019, 2022 and 2025 systems, cutting off connections and, in the most severe cases, forcing ...

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 ...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added a Microsoft SQL Server remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-1068, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog ...

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 ...

We’re halfway through 2026, and Microsoft SQL has not slowed down. Since SQLCon/FabCon in March (where we released a ton of things, and those updates can be found in this updates video), we shipped a ...

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 ...

Microsoft has extended Windows Server 2022 hotpatching into 2027, beyond the end of mainstream support for the operating system, as confirmed on its Windows Release Health dashboard. Mainstream ...

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 ...

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 ...