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Affected locations in British Columbia, Alberta, and Manitoba will not turn their clocks back at 02:00 local time on November 1, 2026. They will remain at UTC−07:00, UTC−06:00, an…
Explore the new Azure MCP Server 3.0 stable release, with AI agent tools for Terraform, backup, recovery, and troubleshooting, plus stronger security defaults. The post Azure MCP…
In September, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. The post GitHub availability report: September 2026 appeared first on The…
Our new repo star history API now provides trends without returning individual identities or requiring unbounded database work. These are the engineering tradeoffs we made. The po…
We're building operational consistency through Azure and Azure Arc, and infrastructure consistency through Hyper-V. The post Microsoft named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Qu…
Windows on Arm has been ready for Python development for some time. With Python 3.15 , the broader ecosystem has matured significantly, with more package maintainers publishing na…
Learn how Azure Content Understanding grounding, field-level confidence, and calibration help teams prioritize human review and build reliable document workflows. The post From ex…
What happens when developers who have spent decades working with Visual Studio start rethinking how they write code, learn new skills, and expand their access to development tools…
Most people have opened their messages to find a suspicious alert urgently telling them that a package cannot be delivered, a toll remains unpaid, a bank account needs attention,…
Microsoft uncovered a Chinese-language cybercriminal ecosystem, an interconnected network of phishing kit operators (tracked as Storm-2990), and an illicit marketplace (tracked as…
We are releasing new patches for our self‑hosted product, Azure DevOps Server. We strongly recommend that all customers stay up to date with the latest, most secure version of Azu…
.NET 11 Release Candidate 2 is available with improvements across libraries, runtime, SDK, MSBuild, NuGet, F#, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, and Windows Forms. The post Announcing .NET…
Explore how Microsoft is advancing hardware security through open-source Integrated HSM technology, collaboration, and cryptographic key protection. The post Advancing hardware se…
AI is reaching such a pivotal moment, and the focus is shifting from building larger frontier models to intelligence that delivers practical impact. The post Infrastructure for th…
Learn how Azure Content Understanding prebuilt analyzers combine domain knowledge with grounding and confidence, and what Advanced Contextualization preview benchmarks show about…
Developers building AI applications face a familiar challenge: how do you ground AI experiences in enterprise content while maintaining security, compliance, and governance? You c…
Hey WinUI developers! If you’re new around here, WinUI Gallery is the go-to app for exploring WinUI 3 controls, samples, design guidance, and handy tools, all in one place. Today,…
A recap of the latest servicing updates for .NET and .NET Framework for October 2026. The post .NET and .NET Framework October 2026 servicing releases updates appeared first on .N…
