The big picture: The Windows ecosystem has offered an unparalleled level of backward compatibility for decades. However, Microsoft is now working to remove as many legacy technologies as possible in ...

Black Elegies by Kimberly Juanita Brown is an unflinching study of black grief as a form of elegy. Brown asks: How do you mourn those you are not supposed to see? And where does the grief go? She ...

Microsoft's SQL Server is a suite of relational database management system (RDBMS) products providing multi-user database access functionality. It originated from the Sybase SQL Server 4.x codebase ...

Microsoft announced today that it will start deprecating VBScript in the second half of 2024 by making it an on-demand feature until it's completely removed. Features on Demand (FODs) are optional ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

Three new features for C# 12 are available in the latest .NET 8 and Visual Studio 17.6 previews. Microsoft, with the latest preview of its planned .NET 8 software development platform, is highlighting ...

I have a 2014 15” MacBook Pro that I’m looking to replace sooner or later with an equivalent M1 MacBook Pro (most likely the 14”). However, one big holdup is that for my day job, I run Visual Studio ...

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