model context protocol

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...

Microsoft’s Ignite stage quietly redesigned a familiar strip of pixels: the Windows taskbar is becoming a living roster of AI assistants that can act, report, and be managed without ever opening a separate app. The company announced that Windows 11 will surface AI agents directly in the taskbar...

Microsoft’s mea culpa over the “agentic OS” pivot is no PR afterthought — it’s the most consequential product-and-security correction the Windows platform has faced in years, and Microsoft’s public response makes clear the company recognizes both the technical promise and the immediate safety...

Microsoft’s Ignite announcements make a clear, bold claim: Copilot is no longer just a sidebar helper — it is being refactored into a managed, identity‑bound platform of agents that can act inside business systems, convert Dynamics 365 from a “system of record” into a “system of action,” and...

Atos has made its Autonomous Data & AI Engineer available on Microsoft Azure, a packaged agentic DataOps solution built on the newly introduced Atos Polaris AI Platform and delivered for enterprise analytics through prebuilt integrations with Azure Databricks and Snowflake on Azure. Background /...

Microsoft’s Ignite keynote pushed Windows 11 unmistakably into an AI-first direction, recasting the operating system as a platform for autonomous agents — but the applause has been mixed, and the rollout has exposed real tensions between visionary automation and the day‑to‑day demands of...