Overview SQL Server relies on Forced-Unit-Access (Fua) I/O subsystem capabilities to provide data durability, detailed in the following documents: SQL Server 2000 I/O Basic and SQL Server I/O Basics, Chapter 2 Durability: “In database systems, durability is the ACID property wh … | Continue reading
We are pleased to announce that the December 2018 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. You can download the Python extension from the Marketplace, or install it directly from the extension gallery in Visual Studio Code. You can learn more about … | Continue reading
Visual Studio App Center has a globally distributed team. We have teams from South Korea, India, USA, Denmark and more. With our distributed nature, we have used all the electronic tools and processes we can to try and enable all of our team members to have a great working experi … | Continue reading
As of Windows 10 build 18298, when you open the properties page of any Console window, you’ll notice an additional “Terminal” tab. Click on this tab and you’ll see several new settings for some experimental features we’re working on for future OS releases: Important Note: These s … | Continue reading
In Part 1, I discussed a bit of the history and function of SMIs. How does this make them EEEEVIL, is the question? Essentially, SMIs are the final word in what happens on a CPU, outside of removing power. They cannot be interrupted, even by a Non-Maskable Interrupt (NMI). Als … | Continue reading
As a quick introduction, SMIs were introduced to the x86 world by the 386SL. It was created to allowed systems designers to have access to the CPU while unspecified software of any type was running. The reasons for this are obvious when you look at the market the 386SL was aime … | Continue reading
In early 2018, Microsoft announced the first machine translation system to translate sentences of news articles from Chinese to English with the same quality and accuracy as a person. Today, Microsoft Translator brings some of these research advances into production as it release … | Continue reading
In this post, we'll discuss the improvements we've been making to the Windows Console's internal text buffer, enabling it to better store and handle Unicode and UTF-8 text. | Continue reading
Why we decided to develop Q#, a new language for quantum computing. | Continue reading
This post was written by Rong Lu, a Principal Program Manager working on Data Science tools for Visual Studio Code Today we’re very excited to announce the availability of Data Science features in the Python extension for Visual Studio Code! With the addition of these features, y … | Continue reading
On October 2, 2018, Microsoft announced that the availability of the Windows 10 October 2018 Update. This post will cover what you can expect to see in WSL for the October 2018 Update, Windows 10 version 1809, and from recent Windows Insiders builds. You can find additional infor … | Continue reading