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Today, Microsoft published its 2026 Responsible AI Transparency Report. The report highlights the progress we’ve made in building and deploying AI responsibly, supporting our cust…
Today, the House of Representatives passed historic legislation that will protect our customers’ most fundamental privacy rights in the cloud. The bipartisan NDO Fairness Act (H.R…
Move Azure DevOps repositories to GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency while minimizing disruption Over the last several years, we’ve encouraged customers to move their rep…
Use Azure Connector Namespace to host MCP servers and give Azure SRE Agent access to the operational tools it needs without managing the server infrastructure yourself. The post P…
Azure Multicloud Interconnect helps simplify private connectivity between Microsoft Azure and AWS, enabling organizations to support multicloud and AI workloads with a more stream…
What if pathology foundation models could do more with less? GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash cut computational demands while maintaining strong performance, opening the door to…
When you need to move an entire database or move the objects in a database, bacpac and dacpac files often come up because of all of the tooling options to interact with them. Bacp…
Microsoft.Data.SqlClient includes configurable retry logic for SqlConnection and SqlCommand, giving .NET applications built-in resilience for transient SQL Server failures without…
Microsoft Threat Intelligence provides analysis of a ClickFix campaign that uses fake CAPTCHA prompts, DLL sideloading, and a reverse tunnel, with detections and hunting guidance.…
SPFx 1.24 Beta 3 is now available, React 18 support is coming in 1.24, and a new Copilot Components preview program opens for customers and partners. The post SharePoint Framework…
Welcome to the August 2026 edition of the Azure Developer CLI (azd) release blog. This post covers releases 1.30.0, 1.31.0, 1.31.1, 1.31.2, and 1.32.0. To share your feedback and…
How Uno Platform built two Model Context Protocol servers in C# so AI agents can ground themselves in real documentation and then see and drive a running cross-platform .NET app.…
Discover how education IT teams can improve cybersecurity by activating Microsoft 365 security tools they already own and use. The post Make security value visible before risk mak…
VSLive! @ Microsoft HQ 2026 was one of the most energizing VSLive! events I’ve attended. What stood out was the level of engagement over five days of learning and conversation fro…
The Azure DevOps plugin is now available for the GitHub Copilot app, allowing you to view and manage Azure DevOps pull requests and work items directly in the Copilot app. What yo…
In the last post we walked through why RBAC broke your app and how to fix it. Your app is now running on a managed identity, keys are off, and everything is green. Then your build…
A few months ago, we introduced a new guided agentic workflow in the Visual Studio Debugger Agent designed to help you move from a bug report to a verified fix without spending yo…
Today, we’re announcing the public preview of GitHub Copilot Code Review for Azure Repos, making the feature available to all Azure DevOps customers using the service. There’s no…
