NASA’s vast archive of Earth observation data has long been a cornerstone for scientific discovery, environmental monitoring, and global sustainability efforts. Now, Microsoft has made it even easier for researchers, developers, and decision-makers to access and utilize this critical resource. Through a collaboration with NASA, the H
A team asked me to review their pull request that fixed a bug that was caused by failing to perform some required action along all code paths. Here's a simplified sketch: void MySpecialFeature::OnButtonClick() { try { auto file = PickFile(); if (!file) { DismissUI(); return;
PowerToys 0.95 is here: new Light Switch utility, faster Command Palette, and Peek with Spacebar
Easily connect AI workloads to Azure Blob Storage with adlfs We're excited to announce the newest release of adlfs—a unified Pythonic file system interface to Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage. Microsoft works closely with the
When managing reference counts, there is an asymmetry between incrementing and decrementing: Incrementing the reference count can use relaxed semantics, but decrementing requires release semantics (and destroying requires acquire semantics). The asymmetry may strike you as odd, but maybe it shouldn't. After all, it's not surprising
Welcome to our combined .NET servicing updates for October 2025. Let's get into the latest release of .NET & .NET Framework, here is a quick overview of what's new in our servicing releases: Security improvements .NET and .NET Framework has been refreshed with the latest update as of October 14, 2025. This update contains securi
.NET 10 Release Candidate 2 is now available. This is our second and final release candidate and it comes with a go-live support license so you can confidently use this release for your production applications ahead of general availability. This release of
Welcome to the October 2025 edition of the Azure Developer CLI (azd) release blog! This post covers releases 1.19.0 and 1.20.0. To share your feedback and questions, join the October release discussion on GitHub. This month brings game-changing features including
