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Give your Foundry Agent Custom Tools with MCP Servers on Azure Functions
Learn how to connect your MCP server hosted on Azure Functions to Microsoft Foundry agents. This post covers authentication options and setup steps to give your AI agent access to custom MCP tools.
Read moreClick to read more about this postYour Migration's Source of Truth: The Modernization Assessment
Introducing GitHub Copilot Modernization and diving into the assessment report as part of cloud modernization process
Read moreClick to read more about this postGitHub Copilot for Eclipse Is Going Open Source
We’re excited to announce that the GitHub Copilot for Eclipse plugin is going open source under the MIT license and will be hosted on GitHub under the microsoft organization in the coming weeks.
By open-sourcing the project, we’re inviting the community to contribute,...
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Dec 15, 2025
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The Windows clipboard automatic text conversion algorithm is path-dependent
When the journey is not half of the fun.
The Old New Thing
Dec 12, 2025
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Resolving an ambiguity in the Windows clipboard automated text conversion table
Who goes first?
The Old New Thing
Dec 12, 2025
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Retirement of Global Personal Access Tokens in Azure DevOps
In the new year, we’ll be retiring the Global Personal Access Token (PAT) type in the Azure DevOps Services product. No changes will be made to global PATs in the Azure DevOps Server product.
Global PATs allow users to authenticate across all accessible organizations. While this can...
Azure DevOps Blog
Dec 11, 2025
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Making Windows Terminal awesome with GitHub Copilot CLI
As someone who lives and breathes in the command line, I love making my terminal feel like home. Windows Terminal is full of personalization options that really allow for a custom experience. Additionally, I can stay within my terminal for my development with GitHub Copilot with the...
Microsoft for Developers
Dec 11, 2025
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Aspire Integrations, Batteries Included
Aspire provides a *batteries included* approach through **integrations**
Aspire Blog
Dec 11, 2025
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Studying the various locale mismatch scenarios in Windows clipboard text format synthesis
If they don't match, then the 8-bit strings are basically broken already.
The Old New Thing
Dec 11, 2025
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Azure Cosmos DB vNext Emulator: Query and Observability Enhancements
The Azure Cosmos DB Linux-based vNext emulator (preview) is a local version of the Azure Cosmos DB service that runs as a Docker container on Linux, macOS, and Windows. It provides a cost-effective way to develop and test applications locally without requiring an Azure subscription or...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Dec 10, 2025
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Azure Cosmos DB : Becoming a Search-Native Database
Hari,
Samer,
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For years, “Database” and “Search systems" (think Elastic Search) lived in separate worlds. While both Databases and Search Systems operate in the same domain (storing, indexing and querying data), they prioritized different aspects.
OLTP Databases prioritized
Structured and...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog