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Microsoft Dev Box for Microsoft engineers
We’re in an exciting time for technology. But to take advantage of the opportunities, it’s critical for developers to have access to the tools and resources that can help them stay productive and do their best work. At Microsoft, we’re migrating many of our developers to highly productive…
The Journey to Secure the Software Supply Chain at Microsoft
A secure software supply chain represents another facet of Microsoft's built-in security to enhance and maintain trust in our products. It’s a continuation of the journey we embarked upon since the launch of Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) in 2004 and represents our commitment to continually enhance Microsoft’s foundational security.
Implementing an accessible, checkable WPF Tree View
The Accessibility Insights team recently fixed a bug in our Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) app where checkboxes in a WPF tree view were not properly reporting their checked or unchecked state to adaptive technologies such as screen readers. This longstanding issue created a sub-par accessible experience in Accessibility Insights for Windows, our Windows app introduced in John’s December 13, 2021, post. Previously, we worked around the problem to make our app usable for adaptive technologies, but with this fix we have improved the experience to meet industry standard accessibility patterns. As a team workin...
Learnings from migrating Accessibility Insights for Web to Chrome’s Manifest V3
Since February 2022, the Accessibility Insights team has been migrating Accessibility Insights for Web–our Chrome and Edge extension introduced in Jacqueline's February 14, 2022, post from Manifest V2 (MV2) to Manifest V3 (MV3). We wanted to share learnings and takeaways from our migration journey with a walkthrough…
Microsoft open sources its software bill of materials (SBOM) generation tool
We are excited and proud to open source our software bill of materials (SBOM) generation tool. A key requirement of the Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity, SBOMs are lists of ingredients that make up software components, providing software transparency so organizations have insight into their supply chain dependencies. Our SBOM tool is a general purpose, enterprise-proven, build-time SBOM generator. It works across platforms including Windows, Linux, and Mac, and uses the standard Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) format. (To see the previous announcement about our SBOM tool, please re...
The pursuit of an autonomic scale and efficiency system for Microsoft 365: Making it as easy as breathing
Through automated profiling and data collection of performance behavior, Microsoft’s M365 Core team can derive the context with which to inform the engineer about the impact of their code, as they write it. Randy Lehner likens it to the autonomic nervous system in this post on their Cloud Profiling and Reporting Pipeline.
Accessibility Insights for Web
In this post, Jacqueline Gibson goes over Accessibility Insights for Web, Microsoft's open-sourced Chrome and Edge extension that helps users find and fix web accessibility issues.
Accessibility Insights for Windows
In this post, John Alkire walks through the features of Accessibility Insights for Windows, which enables users to inspect and test Windows applications to find and fix accessibility issues.
Generating Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) with SPDX at Microsoft
In this post, Adrian Diglio walks us through how Microsoft is planning to generate SBOMs not just to meet the U.S. Presidential Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity, but for all software that Microsoft produces.