Mike Rosoft

Amazon RDS for Oracle extends support for bare metal instances to Standard Edition 2

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports bare metal instances with Bring Your Own License (BYOL) license for Oracle Standard Edition 2. You can use M7i, R7i, X2iedn, X2idn, X2iezn, M6i, M6id, M6in, R6i, R6id, and R6in bare metal instances at…

Modern Workspace Pro 20 January 2026No Comments

Amazon Web Services

Amazon Quick Suite launches expanded size, faster ingestion, and richer data type support for SPICE datasets

Amazon Quick Suite SPICE engine is now supporting higher scale, faster ingestion, and broader data types to power advanced analytics and AI-driven workloads. With this launch, customers can load up to 2TB of data per dataset, doubling the previous 1TB…

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Amazon Web Services

Amazon EC2 G7e instances are now generally available

Today, Amazon announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G7e instances, accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. G7e instances offer up to 2.3x inference performance compared to G6e. Customers can use G7e instances…

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Amazon Web Services

AWS Glue is now available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region

AWS Glue is now available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region, enabling customers to build and run their ETL workloads closer to their data sources in this region. AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it…

Modern Workspace Pro 20 January 2026No Comments

SharePoint Online

Microsoft SharePoint: Retirement of IDCRL authentication protocol and enforcement of OpenID Connect and OAuth protocols [MC1184649]

Message ID: MC1184649 (Updated) Updated January 20, 2026: We are updating this post as a reminder. Thank you for your patience. [Introduction:] As part of the Microsoft Secure Future Initiative (SFI) and in alignment with the “Secure by Default” principle, we’re…

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Microsoft Teams

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Automatically set work location by connecting to a Wi-Fi network [MC1081568]

Message ID: MC1081568 (Updated) Updated January 20, 2026: We have updated the timeline. Thank you for your patience.Coming soon to Microsoft Teams: When users connect to their organization's Wi-Fi, Teams can automatically set their work location to reflect the building…

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Mike on Anthropic Claude Sonnet is now available in Microsoft 365 Copilot [MC1247880]17 April 2026
Really interesting update. It feels like the bigger story here is not just that another model has been added, but…
Mike on Copilot entry point changes in Excel [MC1282571]17 April 2026
This is a helpful breakdown of what looks like a small UX change on the surface but has very real…
AI Logo Generator on GCP Release Notes: February 14, 202617 February 2026
It’s exciting to see Google SecOps SIEM and SOAR updates rolling out globally. I’m curious if there are any significant…
AI Music Generator on GCP Release Notes: February 13, 202615 February 2026
Security bulletins like the one for CVE-2025-13292 are always a bit concerning, but it’s reassuring to know Google is actively…
Nano Banana AI on GCP Release Notes: February 12, 202614 February 2026
This migration tool seems like a great step for those looking to modernize their infrastructure. Being able to move App…