Microsoft introduced the Azure Bot Framework more than two years ago and companies have been building chatbots for a variety of scenarios ever since. Today, the company made generally available the ...

Microsoft wants companies to build their own AI-powered “copilots” — using tools on Azure and machine learning models from its close partner OpenAI, of course. Microsoft defines a “copilot” as a ...

Microsoft continues to evolve its Azure Kubernetes Service. Kubernetes co-creator Brendan Burns tells us where it’s going next. With KubeCon Europe taking place this week, Microsoft has delivered a ...

Microsoft announced that Azure MCP Server capabilities are now included out-of-the-box in Visual Studio 2026, which went GA this week and rewrote the usual long form of the acronym IDE, turning it ...

Microsoft embraces many programming languages beyond its own C#, TypeScript, F# and so on, lately boosting its support for Go, the popular language developed by Google. The company last week started ...

There’s a dilemma facing anyone wanting to build a map app on a Microsoft platform: The company currently has two mapping APIs, one that uses Bing, and one that’s built on Azure. They’re very similar, ...

Claude’s availability in Microsoft Foundry gives Azure development teams another frontier model option for building AI applications, agents, and coding tools. The integration is aimed at reducing ...

Microsoft’s Cosmos DB database can now be used at the center of an event-driven app built with serverless technologies. (Microsoft Image) Microsoft’s strategy for helping its customers use one of the ...

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Microsoft president Brad Smith has posted a blog that lays out how the company plans to support software developers building artificial intelligence (AI). Among the areas he covered included providing ...