Visual Studio 2026’s first Insiders build lands as a clear statement: Microsoft intends to make AI the connective tissue of the IDE while simultaneously modernizing Visual Studio’s foundation for the .NET 10 era. At VSLive! San Diego Microsoft unveiled Visual Studio 2026 (internal version 18.0)...
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Microsoft’s latest push to make AI the fabric of the developer experience landed with bold claims and a mixed reception: a new Insiders Channel debut, a purported Visual Studio 2026/18.0 milestone that folds GitHub Copilot into the IDE in deeper, agentic ways, and a feature set tuned for speed...
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Microsoft’s reported decision to integrate Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 into Microsoft 365 marks a deliberate and consequential step away from a single‑provider AI strategy and toward a multi‑model, standards‑based future for enterprise productivity tools. This move — first reported today by...
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Microsoft and Cloudflare’s push to make websites “AI‑search friendly” is more than a product announcement — it’s an attempt to rewire how content is discovered, attributed, and monetized on the web by combining Microsoft’s NLWeb protocol with Cloudflare’s managed AutoRAG pipeline. The idea is...
Microsoft and Cloudflare have quietly handed website owners a practical toolset to turn ordinary pages into AI‑friendly, conversational endpoints — a move that could accelerate the shift from traditional, keyword‑based search toward answer engines and materially reshape how traffic, attribution...
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I hooked Claude into my Notion workspace and, within a few minutes, the chaos of dozens of interdependent tasks—scattered deadlines, vague titles, and hidden prerequisites—began to feel manageable in a way no purely human triage had delivered. What started as an experiment with an AI assistant...
Cloudflare and Microsoft have launched a practical path for websites to become “AI-search friendly,” combining Microsoft’s open NLWeb protocol with Cloudflare’s AutoRAG retrieval engine so sites can answer plain‑language questions for both human visitors and AI agents via standard endpoints like...
Microsoft’s deputy CISO for Identity lays out a clear warning: autonomous agents are moving from experiments to production, and without new identity, access, data, and runtime controls they will create risks that are fundamentally different from those posed by traditional users and service...
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GitHub Copilot for Azure has landed inside Visual Studio 2022 as a public preview, bringing a curated set of Azure management tools directly into Copilot Chat — Agent Mode and enabling developers to inspect resources, pull logs, run Azure CLI/azd commands, and even deploy applications from...
Microsoft has quietly extended Copilot’s reach deeper into the Azure developer workflow by launching a public preview of the GitHub Copilot for Azure extension for Visual Studio 2022, bringing a curated set of Azure tools—exposed via an Azure Model Context Protocol (MCP) server—directly into...
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Microsoft has quietly handed developers more control over how much assistance GitHub Copilot asserts in the editor, adding several practical toggles and workflow options in the August 2025 Visual Studio update so that suggestions appear on developers’ terms rather than at every keystroke...
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Microsoft’s latest Visual Studio update tightens the reins on GitHub Copilot, giving developers explicit control over when suggestions appear, how much of a suggestion to accept, and whether predictive edits should interrupt their flow—changes that reshape Copilot from an always‑on assistant...
Microsoft’s latest Visual Studio update tames one of the most common frustrations with GitHub Copilot by giving developers far more control over when and how suggestions appear, while preserving the assistant’s productivity benefits for those who want them.
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Microsoft has made the Model Context Protocol (MCP) a first‑class citizen in Visual Studio, shipping general availability support that lets Copilot Chat and other agentic features connect to local or remote MCP servers via a simple .mcp.json configuration — a major convenience for developers...
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Microsoft’s operating system roadmap is at a rare inflection point: with Windows 10 scheduled to reach end of support on October 14, 2025, the company is steering millions of devices toward a new era defined less by big version numbers and more by deep, AI-first integration — and that shift is...
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Agents are only as capable as the tools you give them—and only as trustworthy as the governance behind those tools, and Microsoft’s new Agent Factory guidance in Azure AI Foundry makes that dual imperative the organizing principle for enterprise-grade agentic AI.
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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...
Cross‑AI integration is fast becoming the defining architecture for the next generation of intelligent applications: instead of betting on a single large language model to do everything, modern systems stitch together multiple specialized models, orchestrate them with purpose-built frameworks...
iManage’s latest announcement tightens the scaffolding around AI for law firms: the company has added support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), upgraded its Insight+ search and knowledge-discovery engine, and expanded Ask iManage’s conversational and evidence features — all intended to let...
iManage’s latest update represents a significant step toward bringing explainable, traceable AI into the daily workflows of knowledge professionals, delivering a mix of interoperability, natural-language search, and a native AI assistant designed to keep answers grounded in an organization’s...
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