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Does anyone have links to "how-to's" for Linux in the enterprise? Password/MFA management, central app management, the equivalent of group policy, device management, etc.? IME, the…

Something I'm surprised this article didn't touch on which is driving many organizations to be conservative in "how much" AI they release for a given product: prompt-jacking and da…

Just tested on an older (2015) Intel UHD 620 GPU (integrated), and surprisingly all the demos except one hit ~45FPS and up. The first one - Big Forest - struggled to get ~10fps, an…

Meh...the phrase "deep dive" has been around forever, not sure what about that phrase specifically gives "AI generated" vibes? For me, I just read through those and focus on the co…

Noting that Azure Blob storage supports e-tag / optimistic controls as well (via If-Match conditions)[1], how does this differ? Or is it the same feature? [1]: https://learn.micros…

Previous MSFT employee of about 7 years (left about 3 years ago) - this was totally not true. In fact, we were encouraged to make non-competing contributions and I worked with seve…

While I'll agree the "eye candy updates" may not be there (apart from marketing-driven AI additions and visual updates), there are some big features that aren't visible until you e…

It's been ages, but this use of unions reminds me of the VARIANT structure definition from Windows OA/COM: [1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/oaidl/ns-...

Always have been. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_service

Disclosure: Engineer at Microsoft There is an excellent Network Academy video on YouTube [1] that covers some of the internal implementations of the layer-4 load balancers (in the …

Many of these concerns seem to not be limited to Javascript at all - especially once you're sending/receiving data between systems. In Python for example, when receiving JSON/XML p…

One area I would argue benefits greatly from this type of formal treatment is the specification of business rules in software. I can be quite insightful to formally spell out requi…

[Disclosure: I work for Microsoft] One thing to keep in mind for Azure SQL: you are getting a guaranteed SLA [1], business continuity and full point-in-time backups (up to 30 days)…

Also, remember that even building a "simple" web app (comprised of a browser (client), web server, and database) counts as a distributed system. Concerns over event ordering, lack …