Tom Fenton tackles seven free and open-source AI tools bring local chat, coding, voice, design and research capabilities to personal computers and self-hosted environments.

This code example demonstrates how to secure an Azure Function with Azure AD when the function uses HTTPTrigger and exposes a Web API. The Web API is written using python. This readme walks you ...

This sample shows how to crawl a website via a Python Azure Function using BeautifulSoup4 and extract specific information for manipulation/storage. If not installed, download the "Azurite" extension ...

From VS Code to Azure's free tier, here are 50 Microsoft tools you can try for free right now, organized by category ahead of Build 2026 on June 2-3.

Which feature in SQL Server and Azure Synapse Analytics lets you run T-SQL queries against external data stores and makes those external sources appear as tables in a SQL database?

Here are some of the Dataverse announcements from Microsoft Build. With so many new capabilities, here are all our key sessions in one place. To learn more about these exciting updates, read the full ...

Multi-agent approaches to AI applications, where multiple foundation model-based agents collaborate to solve problems, are emerging as a powerful paradigm for accomplishing increasingly complex tasks.

Tableau, TIBCO Data Science, IBM and Sisense are among the best software for predictive analytics. Explore their features, pricing, pros and cons to find the best option for your organization.