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Microsoft was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management. Discover how AKS, Azure Arc, and Azure Container Apps help organizations run AI and hyb…
Learn how Azure AI Speech LLM 2607 improves multilingual and mixed-language recognition, lowers latency, and simplifies domain-specific customization with enhanced phrase lists. T…
Microsoft examines an AI-assisted business email compromise campaign that used executive impersonation and fake invoices to target finance teams with ACH payment fraud. The post P…
Hello Windows Insiders, Today we’re releasing build Builds 26100.9539/26200.9539 for Release Preview for Windows 11, version 24H2/25H2. Release notes can be found over in the The…
Learn how C# unions and closed hierarchies work with System.Text.Json across ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs, MVC, SignalR, Blazor, and OpenAPI. The post Use C# unions and closed hierar…
This blog post is the fourth and final installment of The Economics of Agent Optimization, which shares the strategies, capabilities, and proof points that can help you optimize a…
Today, Microsoft is sharing our Safe Participation Framework, which centers on designing and enabling safe, privacy-preserving, and age-appropriate experiences for young people on…
Join Microsoft at ESPC 2026 in Amsterdam to explore the latest innovations in Microsoft 365, Copilot, agents, and AI. The post ESPC 2026 is coming to Amsterdam: Bringing Microsoft…
Modernization only succeeds when organizations have confidence that their infrastructure can withstand disruption and continue supporting critical operations. The post The future…
See how Microsoft Defender detects and disrupts AI-themed phishing, malware, and multi-stage attacks across the attack chain. The post Detect and disrupt AI-themed attacks with Mi…
Get after it with Free Play Days! Borderlands 4, F1 25 2026 Edition, Surviving Mars: Relaunched and CarX Drift Racing Online are available this weekend for XBOX Game Pass Ultimate…
Create full-stack business apps through conversation, grounded in your data with app building in Copilot Cowork and Copilot Studio. The post Build apps in Copilot Cowork and Copil…
Catch up on July and August in Microsoft Foundry: stable Hosted Agent and Toolbox SDK paths, Claude tools on Azure-hosted deployments, Model Router updates, local inference improv…
Microsoft introduces the Cloud Web Applications Threat Matrix, a MITRE ATT&CK-aligned framework that helps defenders understand, prioritize, and mitigate threats to cloud-hosted w…
The MSVC Build Tools Preview is updated regularly with the latest features and fixes from the MSVC development team. This post covers updates from the past month, currently target…
Zone resiliency isn't a single number you apply to a whole workload. The useful question isn't “how many zones?” but “how many zones does each component need to survive the loss o…
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…
