agentic workflows

  1. Visual Studio 2026 Insiders: AI-Driven IDE with BYOM, MCP, and Agent Workflows

    Microsoft has pushed a first public look at Visual Studio 2026 — billed internally as Visual Studio 18 and distributed through a new "Insiders" channel — and the headline is simple: Microsoft has folded much deeper AI into the IDE while polishing the look, settings, and model control surface...
  2. Visual Studio GA: MCP enables AI-assisted development with Copilot

    Microsoft’s Visual Studio has reached a new milestone for AI-assisted development: Model Context Protocol (MCP) support is now generally available in the IDE, enabling developers to plug Copilot and other agentic tools directly into local and remote services with first-class configuration...
  3. Microsoft Build 2025: Transforming Windows into an AI-Powered Ecosystem

    The annual Build 2025 conference marked a pivotal moment in Microsoft’s evolving AI strategy for Windows. At the heart of the announcements was a commitment to transform Windows into a seamlessly AI-integrated ecosystem, with a particular focus on democratizing access to the machine learning...