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Microsoft Fabric shortcuts enable organizations to unify their data across various domains and clouds by creating a single virtual data lake. These shortcuts act as symbolic links to data in different storage locations, simplifying access and reducing the…

Azure Virtual Desktop is a desktop and app virtualization service that runs on Azure, that healthcare organizations can use to provide fast and secure access to healthcare providers. Learn more.

In today’s data-driven landscape, optimizing query performance is paramount for organizations relying on data warehouses. Microsoft Fabric’s Query Insights emerges as a powerful tool, enabling data professionals to delve deep into query behaviors…

We are excited to announce support for SHOWPLAN_XML in Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse in preview. This capability allows users to generate and view the estimated query execution plan in XML format, a tool for analyzing and optimizing SQL queries. Whether…

Co-Author – Gyani Sinha, Abhishek Narain Overview A well-architected lakehouse enables organizations to efficiently manage and process data for analytics, machine learning, and reporting. To achieve governance, scalability, operational excellence, and optimal…

Introducing SQL Audit Logs for Fabric Data Warehouse, a powerful new feature designed to enhance security, compliance, and operational insights for our users. The Role of SQL Audit Logs in Fabric Data Warehouse Security SQL Audit Logs in Microsoft Fabric…

Announcing the April 2025 release (version 1.14.0) of the Azure Developer CLI (azd).

Microsoft shipped Windows Community Toolkit v8.2, an incremental update to the open-source collection of helper functions and other resources designed to simplify the development of Windows applications. The main new feature is support for native ahead-of…

Introduction
Azure Monitor Baseline Alerts (AMBA) is a powerful, policy-driven solution that provides preconfigured alert definitions for a broad range of...

We’ve made several significant updates to our Fabric Data Factory artifacts stories, including Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) and APIs support! These updates are designed to automate the integration, testing, and deployment of…

In the fast-evolving data integration landscape, Data Factory continues to enhance the existing connectors to provide high-throughput data ingestion experience with no-code, low-code experience. With a focus on improving connector efficiency and expanding…

Eventstream is a data streaming service in Fabric Real-Time Intelligence, enables users to ingest, transform, and route real-time data streams from multiple sources into Fabric. We’re expanding Evenstream’s capabilities, and making real-time data…

Large language models (LLMs) are revolutionizing the way we build software. But as the scope of intelligent applications grows, so does the need for

Few names carry as much respect and recognition among software developers as Anders Hejlsberg. As the creator of Turbo Pascal, the chief architect of Delphi,

There are few companies in the history of technology — or business, for that matter — that can say they changed the world. Even fewer can say they did it more

See how at Microsoft's 50th anniversary, the company is laying the groundwork for tomorrow's digital economy with Azure AI Foundry. 

In celebration of MSFT’s 50th anniversary, we’re rolling out Agent Mode with MCP support to all VS Code users. We are also announcing the new GitHub Copilot Pro+ plan w/ premium requests, the general availability of models from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI…

Explore the public preview of Azure Boards integration with GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency, now open for early feedback.