This year at gamescom, Microsoft is highlighting new gaming features coming for Windows, particularly for handheld devices. We want to highlight one of the DirectX team’s most exciting new contributions to the PC gaming ecosystem, whic

We’re excited to announce that you can now bring your own language model into Visual Studio Chat. You can connect API keys from providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google) to access a wider range of models. This makes it ea

Last time, we added the ability to create non-modifying tracking pointers, but it required that you start with a non-const trackable object. But what if you want to create a non-modifying tracking pointer to an object to which you have only a

Welcome to Copilot Studio Agent Academy Whether you're just starting your journey with AI agents or looking to sharpen your skills in Microsoft Copilot Studio, we've got your mission briefing ready and it's time to suit up! We're thrilled to introduce Copilot Studio Agent Academy, a new, self-paced curricu

If you have ever found yourself rewriting the last line of a notebook cell repeatedly just to get an overview of your data, you're not alone. In VS Code the default output for Pandas DataFrames is a static, truncated HTML table and it often fails to answer essential questions, such as: Do we have rogue blank values somewhere we di

Thank you for your interest in the new Azure SDKs! We release new features, improvements, and bug fixes every month. Subscribe to our Azure SDK Blog RSS Feed to get notified when a new release is available. You can find links to packages, code, and docs on our

We’re excited to announce that MCP support is now GA in Visual Studio—unlocking richer, real-time context from your entire development stack and expanding the power of Agent Mode like never before. Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that makes it easy for AI agents to connect with external tools and services—think of it

GPT-OSS is OpenAI's first open-weight model since GPT-2, and it's a game-changer for developers who want powerful AI without the cloud dependency. You get two flavors - gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b - both delivering solid performance on coding, math, and tool use while keeping your data completely private. The 20B model is especially interesti