model context protocol

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)...

Microsoft has published Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7344 (KB5070316) to both the Dev and Beta channels — a matched 25H2 preview that bundles new agent and update orchestration plumbing, a production push of Windows MIDI Services to Insiders, expanded Quick Machine Recovery behavior on...

Sophos has launched a new Sophos Intelix agent for Microsoft Security Copilot, making its cloud-native threat intelligence accessible inside Microsoft’s agentic security environment and the Security Copilot store—available to Security Copilot users at no charge with a free SophosID account...

Microsoft’s own documentation now calls agentic AI in Windows “risky,” yet the company is moving forward anyway — rolling a preview of Copilot Actions and a new Agent Workspace into Windows 11 while asking users and administrators to accept a shifted threat model and new operational...

Microsoft’s Ignite 2025 marked a decisive moment: the company moved from talking about Copilot as a helpful sidebar to positioning Copilot and agents as the operational fabric of modern enterprise, unveiling an integrated stack of agent tooling, governance controls, and lower‑cost commercial...

Microsoft’s Ignite 2025 announcements mark a decisive shift: Copilot is no longer a single assistant feature — it has been productized into an agentic platform with a governance backbone, purpose-built Office agents, deeper Teams interoperability, and a cloud orchestration story that treats...

When a short, promotional post from Windows leader Pavan Davuluri described Windows as “evolving into an agentic OS,” the internet did what it always does: it overreacted — loudly, quickly, and with a perfect mix of principled concern and reflexive hyperbole — while the actual Ignite demos and...

Microsoft’s recent Ignite announcements have turned a familiar part of the desktop — the Windows 11 taskbar — into the visible front door for a new generation of AI assistants, introducing taskbar‑resident agents, an “Ask Copilot” composer, and a platform of runtime and governance primitives...

Informatica’s announcement at Microsoft Ignite 2025 — tying its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) and CLAIRE metadata engine directly into Microsoft Foundry — marks a deliberate push to make enterprise GenAI more deployable, auditable and enterprise-ready by anchoring agentic systems to...

CData’s Connect AI platform has been integrated into Microsoft Copilot Studio and Microsoft Agent 365 to provide Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectivity that promises real‑time, semantic‑aware access to live enterprise systems — a move that aims to remove the three traditional barriers to...

CData’s Connect AI has been plugged directly into Microsoft Copilot Studio and Microsoft Agent 365, delivering a managed Model Context Protocol (MCP) gateway that promises semantic, real‑time access to hundreds of enterprise systems for AI agents — and in doing so it tackles three persistent...

CData and Microsoft have moved from discussion to delivery: CData’s Connect AI platform is now available as a managed Model Context Protocol (MCP) provider inside Microsoft Copilot Studio and Microsoft Agent 365, promising real‑time, semantic access to live enterprise systems and a single...

Microsoft is quietly piloting a change to File Explorer in Windows 11 that lets AI applications request permission to read local files and act on them inside a contained runtime — enabling agents like Anthropic’s Claude or Manus-style assistants to summarize documents, assemble slides, or build...

Microsoft Ignite 2025 marked a decisive shift: AI agents moved from experimental copilots to operational workers that can discover context, act across systems, and be governed as first‑class enterprise services. Background / Overview Microsoft used Ignite to stitch together a broad, interlocking...

Microsoft’s push to make Windows 11 an “agentic” operating system took a visible step forward this week as Copilot and new AI agents were shown moving from background concept to taskbar-first features that users — and attackers — will watch closely. Background: the shift to an agentic Windows...

Informatica and Microsoft have deepened their collaboration to speed enterprise adoption of agentic AI by connecting Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) and CLAIRE intelligence directly into Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry through a new Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration, a...