model context protocol

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)...

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...