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What's new for .NET in Ubuntu 24.04

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TypeScript 5.5 Beta

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Open sourcing MS-DOS 4.0

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Microsoft announces results for quarter ended March 31

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Microsoft Cloud Strength Fuels Third Quarter ResultsREDMOND, Wash. — April 25, 2024 — Microsoft Corp. today...
Microsoft Cloud Strength Fuels Third Quarter ResultsREDMOND, Wash. — April 25, 2024 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended March 31, 2024, as compared to the corresponding period of last fiscal year:· Revenue was $61.9 billion and increased 17%· Operating income was $27.6 billi...

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Tiny but mighty: The Phi-3 small language models with big potential

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Sometimes the best way to solve a complex problem is to take a page from a...
Sometimes the best way to solve a complex problem is to take a page from a children’s book. That’s the lesson Microsoft researchers learned by figuring out how to pack more punch into a much smaller package. Last year, after spending his workday thinking through potential solutions to machine learning riddles, Micro...
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Phi-3: Redefining what's possible with SLMs

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Microsoft: Don't Use Iperf3 on Windows

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James Kehr here with the Microsoft Commercial Support – Windows Networking team. This article will explain...
James Kehr here with the Microsoft Commercial Support – Windows Networking team. This article will explain why you should not use iPerf3 on Windows for synthetic network benchmarking and testing. Followed by a brief explanation of why you should use ntttcp and ctsTraffic instead. Reason 1 – It is Not Supported iPerf...
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Vasa-1: Lifelike Audio-Driven Talking Faces Generated in Real Time

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Tax consequences of WIN95 team members keeping a piece of software for testing

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Raymond Chen Every so often, somebody rediscovers my story of buying an entire Egghead Software store....
Raymond Chen Every so often, somebody rediscovers my story of buying an entire Egghead Software store. One question that comes up is the issue of taxes. (You can never avoid taxes. Taxes are due today for most people in the United States.) If the employees were allowed to keep the software provided they tested the p...
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Microsoft Invests $1.5B in G42

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This strategic investment will enhance the UAE’s position as a global AI hub and provide further...
This strategic investment will enhance the UAE’s position as a global AI hub and provide further opportunities for partners and customers to innovate and grow. G42 and Microsoft will collaborate to ensure the benefits of secure AI technologies and cloud capabilities are responsibly shared with growing economies glob...
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What makes a great software engineer [pdf]

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New Microsoft AI Hub in London

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Microsoft recently announced the creation of Microsoft AI, a newly formed organization to help advance our...
Microsoft recently announced the creation of Microsoft AI, a newly formed organization to help advance our consumer AI products and research, including Copilot. Building on that news, I’m thrilled to share that Microsoft AI is opening a new AI hub in the heart of London. Microsoft AI London will drive pioneering wor...
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How does the classic Win32 ListView handle incremental searching?

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Raymond Chen The classic Win32 ListView supports incremental search: You can start typing the name of...
Raymond Chen The classic Win32 ListView supports incremental search: You can start typing the name of an item to search for it. But it’s a bit more complicated than that. You see, there’s more than one way that people expect type-to-search to work. In one pattern, you type the first letter of the thing you want, and...
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Build Systems à La Carte: Theory and Practice [pdf]

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Support for Windows 10 will end in October 2025

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This page has the information, tools and tips you need for transitioning from Windows 10, Windows...
This page has the information, tools and tips you need for transitioning from Windows 10, Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 to Windows 11 with ease. Use the arrow keys to navigate through the pivots and tab to focus on focusable content inside a pivot section After 14 October 2025, Microsoft will no longer provide security ...

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China Tests US Voter Fault Lines with AI Content

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China is using fake social media accounts to poll voters on what divides them most to...
China is using fake social media accounts to poll voters on what divides them most to sow division and possibly influence the outcome of the U.S. presidential election in its favor. China has also increased its use of AI-generated content to further its goals around the world. North Korea has increased its cryptocur...
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Microsoft and Quantinuum demonstrate the most reliable logical qubits on record

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Quantinuum scientists making adjustments to a beam line array used to deliver laser pulses in H-Series...
Quantinuum scientists making adjustments to a beam line array used to deliver laser pulses in H-Series quantum computers. Photo courtesy of Quantinuum. Today signifies a major achievement for the entire quantum ecosystem: Microsoft and Quantinuum demonstrated the most reliable logical qubits on record. By applying M...
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The ancient world before computers had stacks or heaps

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Raymond Chen We take stacks and heaps for granted nowadays, but back in the very old...
Raymond Chen We take stacks and heaps for granted nowadays, but back in the very old days of computing, computers operated without a stack or a heap. Tell a recent college graduate this, and you may as well tell them that there was a time when you didn’t have instant access to millions of cat videos. It’s not too ha...
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A new MSBuild editing experience

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.NET Smart Components

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Daniel Roth New advances in AI promise to revolutionize how we interact with and use software....
Daniel Roth New advances in AI promise to revolutionize how we interact with and use software. But adding AI features into existing software can be challenging. That’s why we built the new .NET Smart Components, a set of genuinely useful AI-powered UI components that you can quickly and easily add to .NET apps. You ...
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If you are using LLM RAG – you should be doing RAFT

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Mustafa Suleyman of Inflection AI Joins Microsoft

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Satya Nadella, Chief Executive Officer, shared the below communication today with Microsoft employees. I want to...
Satya Nadella, Chief Executive Officer, shared the below communication today with Microsoft employees. I want to share an exciting and important organizational update today. We are in Year 2 of the AI platform shift and must ensure we have the capability and capacity to boldly innovate. There is no franchise value i...
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Garnet – open-source, next-gen, faster cache-store for accelerating applications

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Researchers at Microsoft have been working for nearly a decade to address the increasing demand for...
Researchers at Microsoft have been working for nearly a decade to address the increasing demand for data storage mechanisms to support the rapid advances in interactive web applications and services. Our new cache-store system called Garnet, which offers several advantages over legacy cache-stores, has been deployed...
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Copilot Pro has "priority access to GPT-5 Turbo in peak times"

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