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There was a time, not so long ago, when the idea of an AI assistant coding alongside us humans brought to mind visions of digital utopia. Or at the very least, the promise of an extra pair of hands, or digits, shoveling through the mind-numbing trenches of developer drudgery. Alas, as recently...

It’s a rare day in the machine learning world when you can actually feel the boundary between “just another AI release” and “oh, this changes things” begin to smudge. Yet here we are: with the unveiling of OpenAI’s o3 and o4-mini models—now strutting onto the stage of Microsoft Azure AI Foundry...

A New Era for AI on Azure Microsoft’s latest announcement in the realm of artificial intelligence makes waves across the tech landscape. The introduction of the GPT-4.1 series—including the standard GPT-4.1, and its streamlined variants, GPT-4.1-mini and GPT-4.1-nano—marks a transformative...

Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Link Removed (Build 17758 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 17758 contains bug fixes and under development changes to the API surface area. The Preview SDK can be downloaded from the Link Removed. For...

A new open-sourced tool is now available for the Windows Application Driver (WinAppDriver) community: the WinAppDriver UI Recorder tool. This tool will enable users to easily create automated UI tests. For those of you not familiar with WinAppDriver, it is a UI automation service for Windows 10...

Today, we are pleased to announce the next evolution in your File → New Universal Windows Platform app in Visual Studio – Windows Template Studio. Windows Template Studio addresses a top community ask in our developer survey to make it easier and provide guidance to create new projects that...

In today’s post, we’re covering how PC software can leverage the rich functionality of Windows 10. This is valuable background for the upcoming post “Adding UWP Features to Your Existing PC Software with the Desktop Bridge,” which will go into even more detail on the topic in the coming days...

Building Windows 10 IoT? Then you'll want to check out the Link Removed and Brian Rockwell's great post on how to use it... Link Removed AllJoyn® in Windows® 10 An AllJoyn® development toolkit to quick-start AllJoyn® development. The AllSeen Alliance created AllJoyn® to empower the Internet...

Microsoft has a long history of collaborating with industry technology leaders to bring the world the best-in-class PC and device experiences. These efforts now also extend to enhancements in the web browsing experience as well. Intel is a great example of a key technology partner who is...

In this episode, Deepesh Mohnani of the WCF RIA Services team discusses all of the new features introduced since the initial RIA Services release. These include expanded localization support, improved MVVM support, Windows Azure table storage, datetimeoffset, operation tag, jQuery client, and...