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In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words

Starting in Word and expanding to nearly every other word processor, and even things that aren't word processors.
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Stop overloading your skills

You built a skill for your technology. API references, authentication flows, SDK patterns, error handling, version info, all packed into one skill. The agent calls it, gets all that context, and generates code. The kicker? You've just wasted a lot of tokens. It already knows Models have...
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May 7, 2026
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Copilot Studio gets faster with .NET 10 on WebAssembly

Daniel Roth
Microsoft Copilot Studio recently upgraded its .NET WebAssembly engine to .NET 10. The migration was straightforward, simplified deployment, and delivered another round of meaningful performance gains for end users.
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May 7, 2026
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What's New in Aspire 13.3

Maddy Montaquila
Aspire 13.3 is here with the Aspireify skill, command results, browser logs, Kubernetes and AKS deployment, and more.
Aspire Blog
May 7, 2026
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Scalable AI with Azure Cosmos DB: Bringing Generative AI to Enterprise Scale with Super Insight by AVASOFT

Manish Sharma
Azure Cosmos DB enables scalable AI-driven document processing, addressing one of the biggest barriers to operational scale in today’s enterprise AI landscape. Organizations continue to manage massive volumes of structured and unstructured content—contracts, regulatory filings,...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
May 7, 2026
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When you upgrade your resource strings to Unicode, don't forget to specify the L prefix

Raymond Chen
Otherwise, it'll get mapped back down to the 8-bit code page.
The Old New Thing
May 7, 2026
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SQL query generation from natural language

Ashley Costigane
Evaluating AI agents for NL-to-SQL generation across Azure Databricks AI/BI Genie, GitHub Copilot CLI, and Microsoft Agent Framework. We achieved ~75% accuracy with schema documentation and runtime validation, while discovering that business logic errors represent a fundamental limitation requiring domain expertise.
ISE Developer Blog
May 6, 2026
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Visual Studio Code 1.119

Visual Studio Code Team
Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.119 Read the full article
VS Code Blog
May 6, 2026
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From Local to Production: Deploy Your Microsoft Agent Framework Agent with Foundry Hosted Agents

Tao,
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Once you have your Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF) agent or workflow happily running locally on your dev machine, it's time to decide how to deploy your agent to production, monitor it, evaluate it and version it. These decisions are just as important as getting the agent running. Hosted...
Microsoft Agent Framework
May 6, 2026
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Durable Workflows in the Microsoft Agent Framework

Shyju Krishnankutty
Build durable AI agent workflows with the Microsoft Agent Framework. Start with in-process console apps, add durability with the Durable Task runtime, scale with parallel AI agents, and host on Azure Functions for serverless execution.
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May 6, 2026
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GitHub Copilot Modernize 101 is live on the Microsoft Developer Channel

Ayan Gupta
Modernization used to be something you avoided until you couldn’t anymore. A big rewrite. A long migration plan. A risky cutover. Something you’d maybe do once every few years—if you had to. That model doesn’t work anymore. The ask has changed. It’s not just “move to the...
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