Microsoft on Thursday announced new Extended Security Updates plans that add three years of patch support for organizations using SQL Server 2008/R2 and Windows Server 2008/R2 products. The Extended ...

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Microsoft’s SQL Server 2016 has finally hit general availability, and Redmond chiefs are launching the software alongside a special offer aimed at wooing customers away from leading database giant ...

Microsoft is changing some of its licensing rules, which are already complex. Here’s what small businesses should know.

During his keynote at CEATEC, Microsoft's Partner Director of Program Management for Intelligent Edge Operating Systems, Ian LeGrow announced the new flavor of operating systems under the Windows for ...

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 28, 2003 — Kicking off the second day of the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2003, Microsoft Corp. gave PDC attendees prerelease versions of Visual Studio, ...

Nearly one quarter of all the servers running in Microsoft's Azure cloud service are powered by the open source operating system Linux. But you can't actually run much Microsoft software on those ...

Brien M. Posey is a freelance technical writer who has contributed to dozens of books and is a six-time Microsoft MVP award winner. SQL Server 2005 reaches its end-of-life milestone on April 12, the ...

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