Microsoft continues to break down the barriers between Windows and everything else. The company said Monday it plans to release a version of SQL Server, one of its most successful business-software ...

Nearly one quarter of all the servers running in Microsoft's Azure cloud service are powered by the open source operating system Linux. But you can't actually run much Microsoft software on those ...

Microsoft announced on Oct. 30 that it expanded SQL Server passive use rights for organizations licensing SQL Server with Software Assurance (SA) coverage. Organizations with SA coverage on SQL Server ...

Microsoft is working to resolve a known issue that causes its Defender for Endpoint enterprise endpoint security platform to incorrectly tag SQL Server software as end-of-life. Modern attacks have ...

Microsoft is warning users of a zero-day vulnerability discovered in SQL Server, and that exploits of the flaw have already been published. The software giant yesterday issued a security advisory ...

Microsoft is changing some of its licensing rules, which are already complex. Here’s what small businesses should know.

While the cloud continues to grow in popularity for many, if not most, enterprise applications, IT departments remain reluctant to trust public clouds, including the Google Cloud Platform, for ...

Last week, Microsoft dropped a bomb: In 2017, its incredibly popular SQL Server database product is coming to Linux — a free operating system that the company spent many years trying to drive into the ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. After April 12, those running SQL Server 2005 database software will no longer get ...

A new worm that targets Microsoft's SQL Server database management software has inundated networks with thousands of scans for vulnerable servers, system administrators said Tuesday. The worm, which ...