Microsoft looks to 'do for data sharing what open source did for code'
Microsoft is working to standardize data-sharing terms via pre-designed licensing agreements, the first of which now are available for preview and comment.
Microsoft is working to standardize data-sharing terms via pre-designed licensing agreements, the first of which now are available for preview and comment.
Brad Lovering, a former Microsoft Technical Fellow who left the company in October 2010, has a new gig. Lovering is opening the Seattle office for San Francisco-based Splunk, a company that indexes real-time and historical IT data.
Microsoft has relied on the "better together" concept to sell Windows client and Windows Server as a package. It also has done the same with previous versions of Office and Windows. But on May 12 -- the day Microsoft is launching Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 in New York -- Microsoft will be playing up how Office, SharePoint and SQL Server work better together.
Microsoft has rolled out a number of new test and final builds of all kinds of products in the past day or two. Rather than do individual posts on each, I'm providing a few pointers where you can get more on these various new deliverables.
The SQL Server team is unleashing the first widespread test builds of the next version of Microsoft's database, a k a SQL Server 2008 R2 (codenamed "Kilimanjaro").
While it fleshes out its SQL Server on Linux strategy, Microsoft is moving ahead with SQL Server 2016 for Windows, which is now at the Release Candidate 1 stage.
Microsoft is offering 30 percent off a SQL Server 2017 on Linux subscription through June 30, 2018, to qualifying customers.
Microsoft is making available its first public near-final Release Candidate for its SQL Server 2017 database, which will run on both Linux and Windows Server.
Microsoft is making available for download a test build of Service Pack 1 for its SQL Server 2012 database, as well as new SQL Azure cloud-database additions.
Microsoft has RTM'd SQL Server 2014, which includes a new in-memory OLTP engine built jointly by Microsoft Research and the SQL Server team.