Microsoft's new Azure Skills Plugin bundles curated Azure skills, the Azure MCP Server, and the Foundry MCP Server into a single install for AI coding agents. The package is designed to help agents ...

Microsoft says Agent Framework 1.0 is the production-ready release, with stable APIs and long-term support for both .NET and Python. The framework is presented as a unified successor path that builds ...

Microsoft is positioning Azure‑hosted AI agents as a core cloud service for enterprises, rolling out new tools and infrastructure that make autonomous, task‑oriented software agents a standard part of ...

Microsoft introduces Azure Copilot Observability Agent, advancing AI-driven observability and cloud operations management. Agent correlates logs, metrics, traces, topology and operational context to ...

At Microsoft Build 2026 on June 2, Microsoft outlined how its Azure cloud and broader AI portfolio are being re-engineered for agentic AI — software agents that reason, retrieve knowledge, take ...