Microsoft will retire SCOM SQL monitoring packs in 2027, pushing customers toward Azure Monitor and cloud billing.

General availability on newer Linux distributions and CU1 signal a push toward stability, security and production readiness.

On October 14, 2025, Microsoft officially ended support for Windows 10. Although they gave users ample time to switch to Windows 11, millions still rely on Windows 10 and cannot upgrade to the new OS ...

Microsoft announced new or improved AI security agents at Ignite. Security agent functionality is surfaced within Microsoft's relevant management portal. The agents are free to all Copilot Security ...

Microsoft on Thursday deployed a reworked update for a critical vulnerability in the Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) that has come under attack in the wild. CVE-2025-59287 is a remote code ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. The latest warning from CISA, as part of Binding Operational ...

Managing SQL Server across hybrid and multi-cloud environments has long posed a challenge for database administrators. With data sprawled across on-premises infrastructure, cloud platforms, and edge ...

Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled new agentic AI features aimed at speeding up application migration and modernization, highlighting updates to GitHub Copilot, Azure Migrate, and database migration ...

The SQL Server MCP client is built with .NET Core using the Model Context Protocol C# SDK (github.com/modelcontextprotocol/csharp-sdk). It provides tools for ...

Advertisers can now block thousands of websites across campaigns with a few clicks, thanks to powerful new exclusion tools from Microsoft Ads. Microsoft Advertising just rolled out new exclusion ...

Update, July 21, 2025: This story, originally published on July 20, has been updated to include additional expert comments regarding the global zero-day attack impacting Microsoft on-premise ...

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is warning of “active attacks” targeting its SharePoint server software, used widely by government agencies and businesses to share documents internally. The company has issued ...