The system employs HMAC-SHA256 (Hash-based Message Authentication Code using SHA-256) for license integrity verification. SHA-256 refers to the Secure Hash Algorithm producing 256-bit hash values (see ...

Big AI companies courted controversy by scraping wide swaths of the public internet. With the rise of AI agents, the next ...

Jim Gray joined Microsoft in 1995 as a Technical Fellow, researcher, and manager of the Bay Area Research Center. His primary research interests were large databases and transaction processing systems ...

Use the following URLs to open the skillmap and tutorials. Note: If testing, then open the links in Private or Incognito windows. Lab 3.5 mini-skillmap: https ...

Every day, Microsoft processes more than 100 trillion signals from our services. Together with insights from researchers, law enforcement, and cybersecurity teams, these signals reveal how quickly the ...

Third time’s the charm? Microsoft hopes the scalability of Azure HorizonDB, will lure new customers where its two existing PostgreSQL databases did not. Microsoft is previewing a third ...

Microsoft Corp. today is introducing updates across its database portfolio as part of general availability announcements for Azure DocumentDB and SQL Server 2025. The software and cloud giant is also ...