Announcements, analysis and reporting across software, cloud, devices, games and enterprise technology.
Most developers I talk to aren’t asking whether Azure SQL Database can handle their next app. They’re asking where to start when it comes to modernization, migration, and AI in th…
Tune Copilot model thinking effort, share custom agents across your organization, track usage, and simplify complex Git workflows with worktrees and submodule support. The post Vi…
We are happy to announce a 30-day trial experience for Azure SRE Agent. New customers can create and configure the SRE Agent at their own pace, with no charges for setup time or k…
We’re back with a fresh PowerToys release! PowerToys 0.101 introduces Window Hopper for quickly moving between windows from the same app, a redesigned update experience with Stabl…
The best AI in Visual Studio is the AI you can bring with you. Developers don’t work in a single-model world anymore. You might reach for one model for everyday coding, another fo…
Hello Java customers! We are happy to announce the latest August 2026 critical patch update release for the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK. Check our release notes page for details on…
Move from a locally composed memory-enabled agent to a deployed Foundry Agent Service agent, with keyless Azure infrastructure and an interactive browser sample. In Native Agent M…
Microsoft Edge is moving to a two-week release cycle , and the The post WebView2 is moving to a 2-week release cadence appeared first on Microsoft Edge Blog .
Today I will modernize a .NET Framework application to .NET 10 using the GitHub Copilot modernization tooling built-in to Visual Studio. The tooling helps us upgrade applications…
Skala 1.1, the updated deep-learning exchange-correlation functional from Microsoft Research, provides greater accuracy, expanded accessibility across the computational chemistry…
Ride the rails, brave the wilds, and ignite the spark with Free Play Days! Train Sim World 6: Standard Edition, Icarus: Console Edition, and Lynked: Banner of the Spark are availa…
If you’ve been building local prototypes, internal tools, web backends, or lightweight services on SQL Server Express, you know the routine: it’s free, familiar, and gets the job…
Writing and maintaining SQL is easier when you can eliminate repetitive steps and keep your scripts cleanly formatted. With the MSSQL extension for VS Code v1.45, we’re introducin…
See how connected context, governance, and AI agents can help institutions support educators, students, and staff. The post Built for the complexity of education: AI that understa…
Aspire 13.5 refreshes the dashboard and aspire.dev, expands the Interaction Service, adds cross-scope Azure references and Kubernetes persistent volumes, and brings live terminals…
The WinApp VS Code extension exists to make Windows app development feel at home in VS Code. It brings the Windows App Development CLI right into the editor, so you can initialize…
Anthropic’s 2026 Agentic Coding Trends Report captures an important tension in how developers use AI. Engineers report using AI in roughly 60% of their work, yet say they can full…
Hybrid search is usually described as combining keyword search with vector search. Microsoft SQL does that, for sure, but we do quite a bit more right out of the box. SQL dynamica…
