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Retirement: Support for Service Connector (preview) on Azure Container Apps will end on March 30th, 2026
Support for Service Connector (preview) on Azure Container Apps will end on March 30, 2026. After this date, Service...
Retirement: NVv4-series Azure Virtual Machines will be retired on September 30, 2026
On September 30, 2026, Microsoft Azure will retire the Standard_NV4as_v4, Standard_NV4ahs_v4,Standard_NV8as_v4,...
Retirement: Spark Native Connector for Semantic Link
Starting October 1, 2025, the Spark native connector will be officially retired. This decision is based on internal...
‘Blame the intern’ is not an agentic AI security strategy
In the corporate world, blaming the intern is a time-honored, if absurd, tradition. It is a public relations reflex...
Model Context Protocol (MCP) certification: When will it arrive and what will it mean?
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) was rolled out by Anthropic in November of 2024 and has rapidly become a hot topic...
When personal ambitions undermine enterprise security
Cloud computing forms the backbone of our increasingly digital world, enabling businesses to operate more efficiently,...
JavaFX 25 previews JavaFX controls in title bars
JavaFX 25, an update of the rich client application platform for Java, has arrived with new capabilities including a...
[Launched] Generally Available: Visualize New Azure Resource Manager Metrics through Azure Monitor
We are announcing that Azure Resource Manager now offers enhanced integration with Azure Monitor Metrics for your...
A brief history of AI
Alan Turing famously thought that the question of whether machines can think is “too meaningless” to deserve...
How MCP is making AI agents actually do things in the real world
You’ve seen them: Those incredible large language models (LLMs) that can chat, write and even generate code. They’ve...
Smoothing out AI’s rough edges
Follow the usual AI suspects on X—Andrew Ng, Paige Bailey, Demis Hassabis, Thom Wolf, Santiago Valdarrama, etc.—and...
Azure VMware Solution AV36 Node Retirement on June 30, 2028
Microsoft is announcing the retirement of the AV36 node type on June 30, 2028. The terms of your current AV36 Reserved...
From answer engine to infrastructure: Perplexity launches Search API for developers
AI-powered search capabilities are continuing to work their way into toolkits as developers seek to speed up,...
Retirement: Entity Linking from Azure AI Language
Microsoft is announcing the planned retirement of Entity Linking from Azure AI Language. We recommend considering a...
Retirement: The Linux Consumption hosting plan of Azure Functions will be retired on September 30, 2028. Migrate to Flex Consumption.
The Azure Functions Linux Consumption hosting plan is being retired. Customers are advised to migrate to the Flex...
Retirement: Upgrade BlobFuse v1 to latest version of Blobfuse v2
We recommend upgrading from BlobFuse v1 to BlobFuse v2, as all future enhancements and innovations related to Azure...
Retirement: Azure App Service on Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes
Beginning on September 30th 2025, Azure App Service on Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes will be retired, and customers...
SaaS: The quiet power behind cloud computing
Cloud computing has long been heralded as the backbone of digital transformation, but not all parts of the cloud...
Python and Poetry: 4 tools for keeping Python simple
Top picks for Python readers on InfoWorld How to manage Python projects with PoetryElegantly manage Python virtual...
What is infrastructure as code? Automating your infrastructure builds
Infrastructure as code defined Infrastructure as code (often abbreviated IaC) is a practice of writing plain-text...