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Passkey-themed social engineering is being used to compromise identities and enable broader cloud attacks. Learn how threat actors establish MFA persistence, abuse Microsoft Graph…
The smartest model can cost five times more and deliver the same result, or even a worse one. See how evaluating your own work helps you get more value from your agent budget. The…
.NET 11 Release Candidate 1 is available with improvements across libraries, runtime, SDK, MSBuild, NuGet, C#, F#, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, and Windows Forms. The post Announcing…
There are many exceptional AI models out there, but they often have different strengths. One might excel at writing, while another is better at research or image generation. Subsc…
Submit your session proposal for the community-led .NET Conf 2026 Community Days by October 6, 2026. The post .NET Conf 2026 Community Days Call for Presenters Is Open appeared fi…
A recap of the latest servicing updates for .NET and .NET Framework for September 2026. The post .NET and .NET Framework September 2026 servicing releases updates appeared first o…
For research and development (R&D) organizations, the promise of agentic AI is not a better one-time answer. It is a new way to explore complex scientific and engineering problems…
Hello Windows Insiders, Today, we’re releasing new Windows 11 Insider Preview builds to the Beta and Experimental channels. New builds this week Select your channel below to view…
The latest Windows Family Safety improvements are part of a broader effort to create safer, age-appropriate digital experiences for kids and families. As we’ve The post Listening…
Our children and teens are growing up in a digital world where apps, games, and AI-powered tools are part of how they learn, play, create, and connect. For parents and educators,…
Building an extension has never been easier. Rapid adoption of AI-assisted coding is enabling developers to build extensions faster than ever. We have seen that momentum on the Ed…
When a distributed application feels slow, the user sees one delay. The code behind that delay may run across a web frontend, backend services, databases, and external APIs. If yo…
As AI moves into customer-owned environments, organizations need new ways to verify the systems, software, and AI assets they trust before releasing sensitive data, credentials, a…
Azure SDK releases every month. In this post, you'll find this month's highlights and release notes. The post Azure SDK Release (August 2026) appeared first on Azure SDK Blog .
Breakthroughs in computing become real through the experiences developers create. Our goal is to have Windows be the best platform for developers. That means pairing the latest in…
Good software design principles apply inside the database too. See how decomposition, encapsulation, statelessness, and clear contracts can make complex T-SQL easier to read, test…
Schema changes are inevitable, but downtime doesn’t have to be. Learn a phased approach to safely evolve a production SQL schema while applications remain online. The post Advocat…
The recognition for Microsoft over the past couple of weeks comes down to models, infrastructure, data, applications, and developer tools working as one system when AI moves into…
