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Microsoft 365 Developer Program instant sandbox service is restored

This week, we experienced an incident related to Microsoft 365 Developer Program instant sandboxes. New members who set up an instant sandbox were unable to sign in to their Microsoft 365 developer subscription. After setting up an instant sandbox, on sign in, members encountered the following error message. This issue has now been ...


Skills to plugins: fully embracing the OpenAI plugin spec in Semantic Kernel

Over the past several weeks, the Semantic Kernel team has been hard at work preparing for the v1.0.0 release at the end of the calendar year. As part of this change, we wanted to complete any remaining breaking changes so developers could have a stable API moving forward. If you are interested in seeing what these changes are, you can ...


Announcing TypeScript 5.3 Beta

Today we are excited to announce the availability of TypeScript 5.3 Beta. To get started using the beta, you can get it through NuGet, or through npm with the following command: npm install -D typescript@beta Here's a quick list of what's new in TypeScript 5.3! Import Attributes Stable Support resolution-mode in Import Types switch (...


Open Sourcing IFC SDK for C++ Modules

Back with VS2019 version 16.10, we announced a complete implementation of C++ Modules (and, generally, of all C++20 features) across the MSVC compiler toolset, static analysis, IntelliSense, and debugger. Implementing Modules requires principled intermediate representation of C++ source programs. Today, we are thrilled to announce the ...