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Azure DevOps local MCP Server is generally available

Today we are excited to take our local MCP Server for Azure DevOps out of preview 🥳. Since the initial preview announcement, we've worked closely with early adopters and the community to incorporate feature suggestions and feedback. We’ve improved login and authorization, added and...
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Microsoft 365 Developer Program update - October 2025
Oct 16, 2025
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Exciting new capabilities and enhancements for M365 Developer Program - October 2025

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Microsoft 365 Platform team
We are excited to share updates on the Microsoft 365 Developer Program with new capabilities and upcoming changes.
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog
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Oct 16, 2025
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NASA's Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) Data Now Available on Microsoft's Planetary Computer

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Douglas Phillips
NASA’s vast archive of Earth observation data has long been a cornerstone for scientific discovery, environmental monitoring, and global sustainability efforts. Now, Microsoft has made it even easier for researchers, developers, and decision-makers to access and utilize this critical...
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Oct 16, 2025
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Using RAII to remedy a defect where not all code paths performed required exit actions

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Raymond Chen
Passing the obligation onward.
The Old New Thing
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Oct 16, 2025
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Managing secrets on Azure KeyVault with a Tagging strategy to perform automations

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David Lee
Cloud and Infrastructure teams can manage secrets on Azure KeyVault with a Tagging strategy to perform automations.
ISE Developer Blog
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Oct 15, 2025
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PowerToys 0.95 is here: new Light Switch utility, faster Command Palette, and Peek with Spacebar

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Niels Laute
New month, new release! This one’s packed with quality-of-life improvements, performance boosts, and a bunch of long-standing community requests finally checked off the list — all while keeping the focus on fundamentals like speed and reliability! Get the update by checking for...
Windows Command Line
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Oct 15, 2025
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Easily connect AI workloads to Azure Blob Storage with adlfs

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Vishnu Charan TJ
Microsoft works with the fsspec open-source community to enhance adlfs. This update delivers faster file operations and improved reliability for AI workloads that connect to Azure Blob and Data Lake Storage.
Azure SDK Blog
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Oct 15, 2025
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Why can you increment a reference count with relaxed semantics, but you have to decrement with release semantics?

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Raymond Chen
It's more important to clean up when you leave.
The Old New Thing
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Oct 14, 2025
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.NET and .NET Framework October 2025 servicing releases updates

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A recap of the latest servicing updates for .NET and .NET Framework for October 2025.
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Oct 14, 2025
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Announcing .NET 10 Release Candidate 2

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.NET Team
.NET 10 Release Candidate 2 focuses on final quality, reliability, and stabilization across the runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, .NET MAUI, and more.
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