The Azure Quantum Developer Workshop will focus on Microsoft and its industry partners sharing their endeavors in the field of quantum computing, and will include tech demos and a live Q&A.

The digital event will focus on promoting the learning of Azure SQL and Azure Data Factory among the technical community, offering the opportunity to interact with members of the Azure Data team.

The latest partnership focuses on accelerating the commercialization of self-driving vehicles. It also sees Microsoft become Cruise's and General Motor's preferred cloud provider.

The public preview of the Dynamics 365 B2B e-commerce functionality has now been released, alongside the launch of Cloud for Retail. Firms that utilize Dynamics 365 have also been highlighted.

The New Year's Sale for the title offers a variety of interesting offers, including up to 100 sale items at 33% off. The sale will continue for a fortnight through Monday, January 4.

Power BI has received a host of new updates this month. The final update for this year is now rolling out, with some new capabilities being featured, as well as some recent ones being highlighted.

The latest version of the Nonprofit Accelerator contains improvements to help navigate COVID-19's impacts. Associated newly published models and guidance have been made available on GitHub.

Microsoft has detailed how Power BI users using the Premium per user capability - which was introduced earlier this year - can leverage an enhanced deployment pipeline creations experience.

The new capability is now being introduced to Desktop, after coming to Power BI last year. This introduction continues with the addition of recent data protection capabilities brought to Power BI.

The new Admin APIs for Microsoft's data visualization platform will aim to improve the efficiency and performance of the Power BI scan, in order to help support a higher frequency of data assets.

The December update for the On-premises data gateway brings a few new things to report on, aside from the usual new version of the mashup engine that is often the highlight of these updates.

With large model support making it to general availability a year on, new capabilities including user interface enhancements, multi-geo support, and more have been unveiled for the release as well.

Microsoft's IoT platform which allows for the formation and analyzation of digital replicas of real-world places is now generally available, along with key partner solutions for Digital twins.

Full reports can now be included as PowerPoint or PDF attachments in Power BI Premium workspaces. The public preview of the Premium per user capability has also been fully rolled out.

Not only has the amount of capabilities for Azure Government been increased, but Azure Government Secret has been expanded as well, accompanying the announcement of a new cloud dubbed "Top Secret".