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We’re excited to introduce the Agent Store — a centralized, curated marketplace that features agents built by Microsoft, trusted partners, and customers. The Agent Store offers a new, immersive experience within Microsoft 365 Copilot that enables users to browse, install, and try agents tailored to their needs.

This past March we unveiled our efforts to port the TypeScript compiler and toolset to native code. This port has achieved a 10x speed-up on most projects - not just by using a natively-compiled language (Go), but also through using shared memory parallelism and concurrency where we can...

Security is no longer a nice-to-have—it’s a foundational requirement for any cloud-native architecture. As organizations adopt managed database services to support mission-critical applications, they must prioritize robust, scalable, and centralized security. Azure Cosmos DB for...

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At Microsoft Build 2025, Microsoft unveiled its groundbreaking Foundry Local solution for edge devices—an efficient platform specifically designed for local AI inference. As a critical component of Microsoft's AI strategy, Foundry Local empowers developers to smoothly deploy and run...

We’re excited to announce general availability of DiskANN and Filtered Vector Search on Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore), starting with M30 cluster tiers and above. You can now use these features in production to store and query vector embeddings directly alongside your operational...

In the fast-paced world of AI development, connecting intelligent applications to the tools and data sources they need can be challenging. That's why Model Context Protocol (MCP) is resonating with some many, an open standard that's transforming how developers integrate AI capabilities...

We’re excited to announce that these extensions are now generally available, providing developers with a robust foundation to build scalable, maintainable, and interoperable AI-powered applications.

Overview Database design can often feel like navigating a maze of tables, relationships, and data types — especially when working directly with T-SQL scripts. But what if you could map out your database, make changes to your tables, and manage complex schemas within a graphical...