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The article discusses the development of the Microsoft Learn Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, launched in June 2025, aimed at facilitating AI agents' access to Microsoft Learn documentation.
Tianqi
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This article from Microsoft Engineering identifies a specific failure mode in production-scale reinforcement learning for tool-using agents: variance amplification in tool-conditioned contexts that...
Aditya Challapally
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This article presents Microsoft's framework for treating AI agents as collaborative partners rather than automation tools, developed during their Entra SDK v1 to v2 migration project.
Jenny Ferries
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Microsoft details their AI-powered code review assistant that has scaled to support over 90% of pull requests across the company, impacting more than 600K PRs per month.
Sneha Tuli
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Microsoft introduces a new video series 'How Microsoft Engineers Build AI' starting with how their engineering teams built the Ask Learn RAG plugin for Copilot for Azure.
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The article discusses the newly announced Team customizations and imaging for Microsoft Dev Box, aimed at enhancing developer productivity by simplifying the setup and maintenance of development en...
Dmitry Goncharenko
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The article discusses the Common Annotated Security Standard (CASK) introduced by Microsoft, which enhances security for service providers by implementing identifiable keys with fixed signatures an...
Michael C. Fanning
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The article discusses the challenges faced by Microsoft in managing diverse engineering teams and their infrastructure, leading to the development of 1ES Hosted Pools.
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The article emphasizes Microsoft's commitment to accessibility in software development, particularly on Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD).
Nandita Gupta
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The article discusses the performance benefits and debugging techniques related to Copy-on-Write (CoW) linking in the context of Dev Drive, which was released in Windows 11 and will be part of Wind...
Erik Mavrinac
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The article discusses the development of 'Ask Learn', a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) based knowledge service that enhances Microsoft Q&A and powers the Microsoft Copilot for Azure.
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The article discusses how Microsoft enhances the reliability of Microsoft Fabric and Azure Synapse through rigorous load testing using Azure Load Testing (ALT).
Predrag Vlatković
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The article announces that Accessibility Insights now supports WCAG 2. 2 AA, enhancing developers' ability to create accessible software.
Nandita
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The article discusses the evolution of software development and the significance of Platform Engineering in optimizing developer experience.
Amanda Silver
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The article discusses the early preview of copy-on-write (CoW) linking in the Win32 API, released by the Windows filesystem team.
Erik Mavrinac
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The article announces the availability of Dev Drive, a new feature in Windows 11 and Windows Server that enhances developer performance through copy-on-write functionality.
Erik Mavrinac
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The article discusses the importance of protecting various types of Git repositories, including production code, experimental code, and documentation, from secret exposure.
Bryan Sullivan
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This article discusses the load testing of Azure Active Directory (AAD) based authentication for Azure Cache for Redis, emphasizing the importance of performance benchmarking and automation in test...
Rohit Anand
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The article discusses Dev Drive, a new feature in Windows designed to enhance developer performance by utilizing the ReFS filesystem and Copy-on-Write (CoW) technology.
Erik Mavrinac
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The article discusses the implementation and benefits of Microsoft Dev Box, a cloud-based development environment, aimed at improving productivity for Microsoft engineers.
Josh Zimmerman
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The article discusses Microsoft's efforts to secure its software supply chain, detailing the evolution of its Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) since 2004.
Adrian Diglio
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The article discusses a fix implemented by the Accessibility Insights team for a bug in their Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) app, which involved checkboxes in a WPF tree view not properly re...
Sarah Oslund
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The article discusses the migration of the Accessibility Insights for Web extension from Chrome's Manifest V2 to Manifest V3, detailing the architectural changes, challenges faced, and lessons lear...
Sarah Oslund
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Microsoft has open-sourced its software bill of materials (SBOM) generation tool, which is essential for software transparency and supply chain security.
Danesh
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The article discusses Microsoft's efforts to create an autonomic scale and efficiency system for Microsoft 365, aiming to simplify the development process for over 1000 services.
Randy Lehner
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The article discusses Accessibility Insights for Web, a suite of open-source accessibility testing tools designed to help developers identify and fix web accessibility issues.
Jacqueline Gibson
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The article discusses the challenges posed by flaky tests in software development and presents a comprehensive flaky test management system developed by Microsoft to enhance developer productivity.
Suresh Thummalapenta
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The article discusses Accessibility Insights for Windows, an open-source tool that helps users inspect and test Windows applications for accessibility issues.
John Alkire
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CloudTest is a multi-tenant, scalable, performant, and extensible verification service developed by Microsoft to enhance engineering productivity by providing a robust testing infrastructure.
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The article discusses Microsoft's approach to generating Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) using the Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) standard, in response to the U. S.
Adrian Diglio
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The article discusses the historical significance of standards in both ancient Rome and modern software development, particularly focusing on the Static Analysis Results Interchange Format (SARIF).
Michael C. Fanning
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The article emphasizes the importance of integrating DevOps practices into secure development to enhance security measures effectively.
Bryan Sullivan
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The article discusses the evolution of Microsoft Build Accelerator (BuildXL) and its role in enabling large-scale distributed builds for Microsoft's extensive codebases.
Michael Pysson
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Accessibility Insights is an open-source suite of tools designed to help developers create accessible software by integrating accessibility checks into the development cycle.
Mark Reay
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The Engineering@Microsoft blog aims to share insights and tools developed by Microsoft to enhance productivity among its over 100,000 software engineers.
Magnus Hedlund
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The article discusses the importance of filtering out noise from automated tooling bugs to enhance developer experience.
Bryan Sullivan
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