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AI alone won’t change your business. The system running it will.
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Microsoft Updates2d ago

AI alone won’t change your business. The system running it will.

We are building a comprehensive agent platform: one that supports many models, is open, and gives you flexibility at every layer of the stack. The post AI alone won’t change your business. The system running it will. app

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Announcing Microsoft Discovery general availability and Microsoft Discovery app preview
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Microsoft Updates2d ago

Announcing Microsoft Discovery general availability and Microsoft Discovery app preview

At Microsoft Build, we are announcing that Microsoft Discovery is now generally available for all organizations, providing a comprehensive platform for building and governing agentic AI workflows. The post Announcing Mic

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Microsoft Build 2026: Building agentic apps with Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Databases
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Microsoft Updates3d ago

Microsoft Build 2026: Building agentic apps with Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Databases

Microsoft Build 2026 highlights advancements in app development with Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Databases, emphasizing a unified data and AI platform for scalable, agentic applications. The post Microsoft Build 2026:

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Building the next generation of devices for developers: Surface RTX Spark Dev Box
Microsoft Updates3d ago

Building the next generation of devices for developers: Surface RTX Spark Dev Box

Software developers are some of the most ambitious makers we serve. They push devices harder, ask more of their tools and expect their environment to help define the pace of modern software creation. Development today me

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Windows platform security for AI agents
Microsoft Updates3d ago

Windows platform security for AI agents

Making Windows the trustworthy OS for agents AI agents are no longer just answering questions, they are taking actions across systems with increasing autonomy. As they become persistent participants in how software runs,

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Build 2026: Furthering Windows as the trusted platform for development
Microsoft Updates3d ago

Build 2026: Furthering Windows as the trusted platform for development

Build is one of our favorite moments each year - a chance to connect with the global developer community and share what we’ve been building. Over the past year, we have connected with many developers pushing the boundari

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New Azure Cobalt 200 VMs deliver 50% performance improvement, fully optimized for modern agentic AI workloads
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Microsoft Updates3d ago

New Azure Cobalt 200 VMs deliver 50% performance improvement, fully optimized for modern agentic AI workloads

We are announcing the early access preview for Azure Cobalt 200 Arm-based Virtual Machines (VMs), designed for Linux-based agentic AI workloads. The post New Azure Cobalt 200 VMs deliver 50% performance improvement, full

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Expanding on‑device AI in Microsoft Edge: New models and APIs for the web
Microsoft Updates3d ago

Expanding on‑device AI in Microsoft Edge: New models and APIs for the web

At Build 2025, we introduced the Prompt and Writing Assistance APIs in Microsoft Edge with the Phi-4-mini language model. Since then, we' The post Expanding on‑device AI in Microsoft Edge: New models and APIs for the web

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Foundry IQ: Build smarter agents faster with unified knowledge and serverless retrieval
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Microsoft Updates3d ago

Foundry IQ: Build smarter agents faster with unified knowledge and serverless retrieval

Build smarter agents with Microsoft Foundry IQ, unifying enterprise and external data into a secure, scalable knowledge layer for faster, higher-quality answers. The post Foundry IQ: Build smarter agents faster with unif

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A Developer’s Guide to Managing Models, Cost and Quality in Microsoft Foundry
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Microsoft Updates3d ago

A Developer’s Guide to Managing Models, Cost and Quality in Microsoft Foundry

Microsoft Foundry helps teams move beyond model access to operate AI at scale—selecting, evaluating, optimizing, and governing models across the full lifecycle. The post A Developer’s Guide to Managing Models, Cost and Q

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Tune into XBOX Games Showcase June 7
Microsoft Updates4d ago

Tune into XBOX Games Showcase June 7

On June 7, the annual XBOX Games Showcase returns, offering a look at what’s next from XBOX and its partners. This year marks 25 years of XBOX, and this Showcase is poised to be a true celebration, offering world premier

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Introducing Surface Laptop Ultra: Made for world makers
Microsoft Updates4d ago

Introducing Surface Laptop Ultra: Made for world makers

The world is full of makers. Only a few make the world. Surface Laptop Ultra is for them. For those building the systems, the breakthroughs and the infrastructure the world runs on and gets changed by. The ones who see l

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Introducing a powerful new chapter for Windows PCs, accelerated by NVIDIA RTX Spark
Microsoft Updates4d ago

Introducing a powerful new chapter for Windows PCs, accelerated by NVIDIA RTX Spark

Today at NVIDIA GTC, Microsoft and NVIDIA announced the world’s most powerful and efficient thin-and-light Windows PCs ever. Accelerated by NVIDIA RTX Spark The post Introducing a powerful new chapter for Windows PCs, ac

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Windows quality update: May
Microsoft UpdatesMay 29

Windows quality update: May

Hey Windows Insiders, One of the best parts of the work is hearing directly from the people using Windows every day. I was recently in Hyderabad and Taipei meeting with local Windows Insiders, and those conversations gav

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Announcing new builds for 29 May 2026
Microsoft UpdatesMay 29

Announcing new builds for 29 May 2026

Hello Windows Insiders, This week we continue to expand the rollout of the new Windows Insider Program changes to devices in channels already announced. New builds this week Today we are releasing new Windows 11 Insider

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Claude Opus 4.8 is now available in Microsoft Foundry
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Microsoft UpdatesMay 29

Claude Opus 4.8 is now available in Microsoft Foundry

Claude Opus 4.8 is now available in Microsoft Foundry, giving developers and enterprises access to Anthropic’s most capable Opus model for coding, agentic tasks, and professional work. The post Claude Opus 4.8 is now ava

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Announcing new builds for 22 May 2026
Microsoft UpdatesMay 22

Announcing new builds for 22 May 2026

Hello Windows Insiders, Today, we continue to expand the rollout of the new Windows Insider Program changes to devices in channels already announced. As a reminder, we have not yet begun moving devices in the Canary 2950

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Powering multi-cluster workloads with seamless cross‑cluster networking for Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager
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Microsoft UpdatesMay 22

Powering multi-cluster workloads with seamless cross‑cluster networking for Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager

With Cilium-based cross-cluster networking, we are delivering a managed, high-performance network that can span your entire fleet. The post Powering multi-cluster workloads with seamless cross‑cluster networking for Azur

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Azure NetApp Files for EDA workloads: From revolution to breakthrough at scale
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Microsoft UpdatesMay 22

Azure NetApp Files for EDA workloads: From revolution to breakthrough at scale

Azure NetApp Files is redefining what’s possible for EDA in the cloud—delivering scalable, high-performance storage that supports massive concurrency, low latency, and consistent production performance. With independent

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Azure IaaS: Deploy high-performance workloads with a system-level approach
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Microsoft UpdatesMay 20

Azure IaaS: Deploy high-performance workloads with a system-level approach

Performance in the cloud is no longer defined by individual resources—it’s shaped by how compute, storage, and networking work together. Azure IaaS takes a system-level approach to help organizations achieve consistent,

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