model context protocol

This year’s sweeping push from Microsoft transforms Copilot from a helpful drafting assistant into the backbone of what vendors and CIOs are now calling the agentic enterprise — fleets of identity-bound AI agents that plan, act, and are managed like software services. Cloud Wars’ roundup of the...

Microsoft’s latest Insider preview, build 26220.7523 (KB5072043), pushes Windows 11 further down the path to an “agentic” desktop by placing Ask Copilot on the taskbar for commercial users, adding system‑level Agent Launchers that let apps register AI agents, and giving Narrator a rare and...

Microsoft’s December Insider previews quietly rearranged Windows 11 around a simple, urgent idea: turn the operating system into a safe, discoverable host for AI agents while smoothing the UI and controls that surround them — and in doing so, shipped more agentic infrastructure than most users...

Microsoft’s latest move to make Windows 11 an “agentic” operating system — where AI agents can act on behalf of users, open apps, and manipulate files — has triggered a fierce debate about privacy, consent, and a changed security model for the desktop. Background / Overview Microsoft has begun...

Microsoft’s blunt claim that Windows is “evolving into an agentic OS” is more than marketing puffery — it describes a deliberate platform redesign that elevates AI from an add‑on assistant to a first‑class system component that can reason, plan, and act across apps, files, and services on your...

OpenAI, Anthropic and Block have placed three working pieces of agent infrastructure — AGENTS.md, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and the goose agent framework — into a Linux Foundation‑hosted directed fund named the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), a move intended to create vendor‑neutral...

The Linux Foundation, joined by industry heavyweights including Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic and Block, today announced the formation of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) — a vendor-neutral steward intended to accelerate open standards, interoperability and governance for agentic AI, and to house...

Plansom’s new Teams-native agent folds goal-setting, delegation, and real-time progress tracking directly into Microsoft Teams by building on Microsoft’s Foundry SDKs, Azure OpenAI, Copilot Studio, and Model Context Protocol — a move designed to make delegation measurable, visible, and automated...

OpenAI, Anthropic and Block have deposited three working pieces of agent plumbing into a new Linux Foundation-backed body — the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) — in a bid to impose neutral governance, reduce fragmentation and make the next generation of AI agents safer and more portable across...

The Linux Foundation’s new Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) has pulled an unusually broad coalition of rivals into a single, vendor‑neutral effort to standardize the plumbing that will let AI agents discover tools, call services, and cooperate across clouds and devices — with Anthropic’s Model...

Anthropic has donated the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to a new Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) housed as a directed fund under the Linux Foundation, and the move—announced December 9, 2025—marks a deliberate attempt by leading AI vendors to place the plumbing of agentic AI under neutral...

The era of agentic business applications has arrived in earnest, and the announcements at Convergence 2025 make clear that this is no longer a theoretical roadmap — it is an operational shift that will touch ERP, CRM, productivity, and how organizations govern data and decisions. Background /...

We’re at the point where change management — the slow, paper-and-email-laden backbone of manufacturing — is getting a practical, agentic overhaul: Microsoft today opened public preview of the Product Change Management agent template, a Copilot Studio–built solution that promises to automate...

Microsoft has begun quietly threading the Model Context Protocol (MCP) into Windows 11, shipping a public preview of native MCP support to Windows Insiders in build 26220.7344 — a move that turns a long-theorized “agentic OS” from concept toward real‑world testing. The release includes two...

Microsoft has pushed a consequential Insider preview—Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7344 (KB5070316)—into both the Dev and Beta Channels, and this release is less an ordinary quality rollup than a platform‑level reset that adds native agent plumbing, a unified app update orchestrator, a...

Windows 11’s latest Insider preview tiptoes — and sometimes strides — into an AI-first future: Build 26220.7344 brings native support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), two built-in agent connectors for File Explorer and Windows Settings, and a clearer signal that Microsoft intends Windows to...

Microsoft’s latest Insider flight, Build 26220.7344 (KB5070316), plants three ambitious seeds in Windows 11 25H2: native support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) with built‑in agent connectors, a new Unified Update Orchestration Platform (UOP) for app update coordination, and the production...

Microsoft has quietly pushed another preview-level servicing package into the Windows Insider stream: Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7344, delivered as KB5070316 to both the Dev and Beta channels, and it bundles a mix of platform plumbing (agent protocols and update orchestration)...

Microsoft's newest Insider preview build sharpens recovery, updates, and on-device AI plumbing while pushing key developer and musician tooling into broader preview—delivered as Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7344 (KB5070316) to both the Dev and Beta channels and announced by the Windows...

Microsoft has pushed a matched Windows 11 Insider preview build — 26220.7344 — to Dev and Beta channels that marks the operating system’s first public preview of native support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and ships two built-in agent connectors (File Explorer and Windows Settings)...