I'm taking a couple weeks off before the busiest part of Microsoft's 2012 kicks into full gear. But never fear: The Microsoft watching will go on while I'm gone. I've asked a few illustrious members ...

Market demand is growing for easy access to data across multiple platforms and devices. The move to cloud computing is increasing pressure to create a more open and programmable Web by having a common ...

Microsoft, IBM, SAP and others have moved to make the Microsoft-derived Open Data Protocol an official international standard. The Open Data Protocol (OData) is used for data-sharing, which makes it ...

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OData, the Open Data Protocol, is a protocol from Microsoft for querying and updating data. You may remember hearing "Astoria" Protocol or ADO.NET Data Services ...

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Google has unveiled the Data Commons Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, an open-source tool designed to make public data more accessible to AI systems. For developers, this means a streamlined way ...