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Jargonesque
Microsoft releases its flexibility guide and it turns out Jargon is a KPI.
Barn Door Security
Office Macros remain Microsoft's Security Kryptonite, Azure BaaS has been shutdown.
49.7 First Dates
.NET has performance issues like clockwork, Microsoft upgrades their Contributor Covenant, Aliens have favorite places to visit.
Pour One Out for .NET Framework 4.6.1
.NET Framework 4.5.1, 4.5.2, and 4.6.1 are reaching "end of support" (scare quotes). Basecamp shoots bazooka into foot, and Microsoft Build is coming up.
Microsoft's MVP Program has a new requirement: Shilling
Microsoft wants MVPs to tout SQL Server on Azure over AWS; Octopus Deploy raises a princely sum; and Visual Studio 2022 will be 64-bit.
The NSA requests you patch your stuff
Exchange CVEs have gotten so bad the NSA is involved in public relations.
... and I would lock 10,000 schemas...
Stack Overflow creates 10,000 schemas a pop, gets deadlocked. .NET 5.0.5 is out, and .NET 6 Preview 3 includes new platforms.
Microsoft is mad that Georgia is having a second piece of cake
Georgia tries casual racism; Microsoft is 'concerned'. GDPR Cookie popups have made the internet terrible again, and Nuget is about to overflow its download counter.
Cross-Platform Pinky Swear
Apparently 30 is old in tech. Microsoft feels the burn from their cross-platform promise.
Azure goes Achoo
Azure AD goes down hard. Man cold hard.
A CVE for every Season
Microsoft patches a nasty CVE with System.Text.Encodings.Web that affects every .NET platform (except maybe framework?); Microsoft takes down a security researcher's P...
Microsoft Ignites Exchange
Exchange gets hacked; Microsoft .NET Foundation is opening up (hhehehe) about its "assignment model" change.
O POH Maoni!
Maoni Stephens (writer of the Pinned Object Heap Blog post and Garbage Collector Guru at Microsoft) gets a promotion.
Naming is Hard, Let's just copy
Microsoft releases "Dapr", in a homophonic 'homage' to Dapper.
Using Azure Means Microsoft Sharing Your Info
Microsoft Shares your Info with Canonical if you use Ubuntu; .NET Turns 19; and three CVEs get patched in the .NET World.
[Object]ing... for now.
Microsoft defers 2022 Election Cycle contributions to congressional representatives that supported the objections to certification of electors on January 6th. Microso...
You can't have issues if you don't have a backlog
The .NET team axes their backlog in vain hopes of managing it. Microsoft releases LAMBDA; an excel function that will likely power AI well into the next decade.
Microsoft says the quiet part out loud
Microsoft spills why they make Political Action Committee Contributions to members of congress that supported the insurrection on January 6th; Visual Studio now suppor...
I am (g)root
Nuget can run arbitrary code on your system; Parler's woes get worse (yay!); and Khalid A. shares inspirational quotes from artists that apply to programming. Oh yea,...
2021 Doesn't Feel so Good, Mr. Stark.
A Capitol Insurrection; JetBrains refutes the NYT tying it to the Solarwinds Hack, and Serverless.com makes a major security "oopsie".