Microsoft Technology Briefing - May 2026

At Microsoft Build, you'll go deep on real code, real systems, and real workflows with the teams building and scaling AI. Two days. Hands-on sessions. No fluff. June 2–3, 2026 / San Francisco and online.

Be part of the excitement at our local watch party in Stockholm bringing the biggest moments from Microsoft Build in San Francisco straight to you. Location: Microsoft Office, Regeringsgatan 25.

Join us for this Microsoft Azure MicroHack where you will have the opportunity to learn and develop practical skills to: Manage and secure your cloud, on-prem and hybrid environments using Azure Arc. Location: Microsoft Office, Regeringsgatan 25.

Microsoft bjuder in till ett CISO‑rundabordssamtal med fokus på de föränderliga säkerhets‑ och styrningsutmaningar som uppstår när organisationer går från AI‑piloter till AI‑agenter i drift på företagsnivå. Sessionen genomförs som ett slutet samtal mellan kollegor i branschen enligt Chatham House Rule, utformat för att ge CISOs möjlighet att dela perspektiv och praktiska erfarenheter. Location: Microsofts Huvudkontor, Regeringsgatan 25.

I över tjugo år har Microsoft varit en aktiv deltagare i samhällsdebatterna under Almedalsveckan. Även i år ser vi fram emot att bidra med vår expertis kring teknikens potential för att stärka Sveriges konkurrenskraft. Träffa våra experter som är på plats. Vi medverkar i ett stort antal seminarier och dialoger om hur digitalisering, cybersäkerhet och AI:s utveckling påverkar vårt samhälle.

Ta del av inspelningen från Microsoft Sovereign Cloud Day Sverige, där ledare och experter delar hur organisationer i Sverige arbetar med digital suveränitet, säkerhet och innovation. Du får en samlad bild av Microsofts satsningar i Europa och Sverige inom molninfrastruktur, AI, cybersäkerhet och dataskydd, med fokus på hur du kan möta regulatoriska krav och samtidigt driva innovation.

Microsoft has been recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Workforce Identity Security Platforms, Q2 2026, receiving the highest scores in both the current offering and strategy categories.

A multi-stage attack on Linux devices began with an exposed F5 BIG-IP edge appliance and pivoted to an internal Confluence server for credential theft and identity compromise. Learn how the threat actor attempted Kerberos relay and lateral movement, and how Microsoft Defender detected, blocked, and unraveled the attack.

How Frontier firms secure AI at scale: read how Microsoft customers embed governance, identity, and cloud security to make protection an enabler of AI growth.

Microsoft Security’s latest updates extend visibility, control, and protection across expanding ecosystems as organizations accelerate AI adoption.

Compromised @antv npm packages deploy the Mini Shai-Hulud payload to steal CI/CD secrets from Linux-based automation environments. The malware executes during npm install and targets credentials across GitHub, AWS, Kubernetes, Vault, npm, and 1Password platforms.

Read about the unique challenges and rewards of securing gaming platforms and how to better protect gaming communities.

The AI systems shipping inside enterprises today are fundamentally different from the ones we were building even two years ago, because they have moved well past answering questions and into accessing your email, retrieving records from your CRM, writing and executing code, and taking actions on your behalf across dozens of connected systems.

Fox Tempest is a financially motivated threat actor operating a malware‑signing‑as‑a‑service (MSaaS) used by other cybercriminals, including Vanilla Tempest and Storm groups, to more effectively distribute malicious code, including ransomware.

Storm-2949 turned stolen credentials into a cloud-wide breach, moving from identity compromise to large-scale data theft without using malware. This incident shows how threat actors can exploit trusted systems to operate undetected.

See how built-in security helps keep your growing business running, protect customer trust, and support growth.

Our team just wrapped up the M365 Community Conference in Orlando, FL, and it was an incredible way to close out April! Our teams were energized by connecting with, listening to, and sharing what’s new with many of you: the builders, innovators and icons of intelligent work. Thank you to everyone who attended, and we can’t wait to see even more of you at next year’s conference!

Legal workflows demand precision and auditability. While general-purpose AI tools can assist with document review, they aren’t designed to follow the structured processes legal teams rely on to evaluate risk and maintain consistency. Building on our recent announcement of agentic capabilities in Word , today we are introducing the Legal Agent in Microsoft Word.

Frontier Transformation is about fundamentally changing how organizations operate – embedding AI into everyday workflows to accelerate decisions, improve outcomes, and drive measurable business impact. Achieving these benefits requires more than just access to powerful models.

Microsoft 365 Copilot leverages Copilot connectors with sync capabilities that can further enrich Work IQ and unify enterprise knowledge across hundreds of SaaS systems into a single, coherent enterprise knowledge base in your Microsoft 365 tenant. This foundation enables Copilot to deliver relevant, accurate, and context-rich insights...

Research Drop in Brief: Managers are a catalyst of AI transformation as they bridge strategy and execution, but only 56% of managers feel they have the support they need to integrate AI agents into their work. Enabling managers during AI transforming scales impact as role modeling drives +17pp realized value of agentic AI, +22pp critical thinking on AI, and +30pp agentic AI trust.

We announced several exciting updates at the Microsoft 365 Community Conference this week: you can now scale Teams pilots to your broader frontline organization faster, fill open shifts automatically with smart scheduling, deliver official operational updates with the new Communicator App, and conduct site walkthroughs handsfree in Frontline Agent.

The Microsoft 365 Copilot Agent Evaluations tool helps developers measure and improve the quality of agents they build for Microsoft 365 Copilot.

A complete record of milestones, launches, and newest innovations. Give Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork your team's playbook. Plugins bring your organization's skills and knowledge into one workflow so Cowork can help support teams work the way they already do. Try Copilot Cowork in Frontier In plain English: a connector is the “bridge” that lets Cowork safely pull data from another platform like Dynamics 365, Fabric, and Power BI—and in some cases send updates back.

We are excited to announce general availability for the SharePoint Framework 1.23. We are rolling out new features in extensions, preview of new CLI and addressing known npm audit issues.

The modern employee is currently paying a "fragmentation tax." Across a typical workday, the average professional navigates over 200 disparate apps and systems. Every time they switch from a collaborative space like Microsoft Teams to a domain-specific tool to check a PTO balance or a tax form, they lose focus. We call this the "toggle tax," and it is the enemy of the flow of work.

Welcome to the April 2026 edition of What's new in Microsoft 365 Copilot! Every month, we highlight new features and enhancements to keep Microsoft 365 admins up to date with Copilot features that help your users be more productive and efficient in the apps they use every day. Let’s take a closer look at what’s new this month: User capabilities: Updates to mobile app and grounding for the Microsoft 365 Copilot app A wave of updates for Copilot Notebooks Plan mode and Python support for Copilot..

One of the biggest barriers to Copilot adoption is people don’t always know where to start. Today, we released the first version of our redesigned Microsoft 365 Copilot business user hub. Take a look. We set out to simplify adoption by making the experience more practical and focused on key roles: AI Business User, AI Champion and AI Leader. What you’ll find: Prompts you can apply immediately in your work. • Real examples of how Copilot helps across tasks. • Clear guidance based on your role.

We are excited to preview Service Operations Agent. It’s a new AI-powered capability in Dynamics 365 Contact Center that transforms how administrators configure, validate, and orchestrate conversations at runtime.

Dataverse gives developers a powerful platform for building enterprise applications — but getting from zero to a connected, working environment has always involved multiple tools, authentication flows, and configuration steps. The Dataverse plugin was built to accelerate that journey by letting AI coding agents handle the setup orchestration for you. Three weeks ago we introduced...

Business skills in Dataverse can capture your organization’s processes, policies, and domain expertise as natural-language instructions that AI agents discover and follow.

Microsoft Dataverse is the agent data platform: the layer that gives agents not just data access, but real business understanding.

The Case Management Agent in Dynamics 365 Customer Service empowers admins to measure AI‑powered field prediction accuracy against real organizational data before enabling case enrichment in production: test against historical records, review the results, refine field descriptions, and enable the feature when accuracy meets your bar.

Consent-Based Recording in Dynamics 365 Contact Center captures caller consent early and enforces it across voice AI and agent interactions to support compliance and trust.

Building agents is fast. Teaching them how your organization works has been the hard part. Introducing closed-loop learning on the Power Apps MCP server: every correction calibrates the agent to your business, automatically.

User Defined Types (UDTs) are now generally available! As of Power Apps Studio version 3.26044, UDTs are enabled by default for new apps and can be enabled for existing apps under Settings > Updates > New > User-Defined types.

Power Apps Generally available: Power Fx user defined types (UDTs) User defined types (UDTs) are now generally available, as of version 3.26044. They are enabled for all new apps and can be enabled for existing apps through settings > updates > new > user-defined types. UDTs are defined with the Type function in the App.

Today, we’re announcing additional capabilities in Cowork to expand on what it can make possible for you.

AI is transforming workforce planning in Dynamics 365, where intelligent agents now execute core service tasks and contribute directly to business outcomes. AI Credit Estimation bridges the gap between demand forecasting and cost visibility, enabling organizations to predict AI usage, model credit consumption, and plan human and AI resources together with confidence.

Data Sensitivity Labels for Emails bring classification and protection directly into customer service workflows, so service representatives can work confidently without slowing down.

Azure Functions support for Java 25 is now generally available. You can now develop apps using Java 25 locally and deploy them to supported Azure Functions plans on Linux and Windows, including the Flex Consumption plan. Learn more: Update your app...

Security for cloud infrastructure is no longer defined by a single control, product, or boundary. Modern threats target identity, software supply chains, control planes, networks, and data simultaneously.

Microsoft and Red Hat show how Azure Red Hat OpenShift powers modernization and production AI with secure, scalable enterprise governance.

To support seamless migration and operation of workloads that use large files including Azure VMware Solution (AVS) virtual machines with large VMDK disks, Azure NetApp Files now supports file sizes of up to 64 TiB for regular volumes. This enhancement en...

The Azure Blob Storage SDK for Rust is now generally available. The Rust SDK allows you to connect to an Azure Blob Storage account and perform operations on containers and blobs, including uploading, downloading, listing, and managing blobs. This release...

Role names in Microsoft Foundry have been updated to align with the product brand. The following built-in roles are now renamed:Azure AI Account Owner → Foundry Account OwnerAzure AI Owner → Foundry OwnerAzure AI User → Foundry UserAzure AI Project Manage...

Azure Storage Mover now supports built-in job scheduling, giving customers more control over when migrations run and making it easier to automate repeatable data transfers into Azure. Customers can configure jobs to start automatically at a specific date...

User Groups and IP Address Pools for Point-to-Site connections in VPN Gateway enable customers to assign distinct IP address pools to remote users based on their credentials. With this capability, customers can organize remote users into separate groups a...

The Object REST API (an S3-compatible REST API) on Azure NetApp Files bridges the gap between traditional file-based storage and modern cloud services, enabling you to use your existing data in new ways. With the Object REST API, you can seamlessly integr...

Azure Files announces general availability of Entra-only identities for SMB access, enabling organizations to securely access file shares using cloud-native identities without requiring Active Directory or hybrid identity infrastructure. With Microsoft En...

Azure NetApp Files is redefining what’s possible for EDA in the cloud—delivering scalable, high-performance storage that supports massive concurrency, low latency, and consistent production performance. With independent benchmark validation and real-world adoption, organizations can now run EDA workloads at scale without traditional storage bottlenecks.

With Cilium-based cross-cluster networking, we are delivering a managed, high-performance network that can span your entire fleet.

As demand for cloud and AI grows, Microsoft is expanding Azure across Europe to deliver scalable, resilient infrastructure that supports innovation, compliance, and performance.

Organizations do not have a data problem. They have a fragmentation problem. The data that matters most to AI is often already present across the enterprise, but discovering the right asset, understanding whether it is trusted, and connecting it into an agent workflow still takes too much effort.

PostgreSQL has become foundational to how modern applications are built. It powers everything from early‑stage startups to some of the most demanding production systems in the world. Its longevity isn’t accidental, it’s the result of decades of engineering discipline, community collaboration, and a relentless focus on correctness and extensibility.

At SQLCon this year, a room full of SQL developers was asked two questions. How many already have their databases under source control? Some hands went up. How many want their databases under source control? Every hand in the room went up.

Business Events in Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Hub give organizations a way to define, publish, discover, and act on meaningful business signals across their data platform. Today we are expanding that capability: Fabric Eventstream now supports Business Events...

Data agents in Fabric now support Service Principal (SPN) authentication. This is one of the most requested capabilities from customers who want to take their data agents from prototype to production.

Starting May 2026, eligible Microsoft Fabric and Power BI users can access a new ticket creation experience within Fabric. The ticket creation flow lives inside the Help Pane, right where you go for help. By June 2026, Microsoft plans to transition Fabric and Power BI ticket creation to this experience. During this transition, users who previously created tickets through the Power Platform Admin Center may be redirected to Fabric.

Real-Time Dashboards display live metrics, help you identify anomalies, and support fast decision-making. With Copilot-assisted data exploration, you can use natural language to ask questions about your data, drill down into specifics, and uncover insights - all without writing KQL queries.

Connection behavior in Fabric Warehouse is becoming more deterministic—and that has important implications for auditing. Learn what’s changing, why some login events may no longer appear where you expect, and how to preserve full traceability.

Prevent data exfiltration by restricting the ability to download notebooks and rich DataFrames . This capability ensures that sensitive data remains within governed environments, reducing the risk of unauthorized access, sharing, or leakage outside approved boundaries.

OneLake item-size reporting (Preview) is designed to provide workspace administrators with item-level insight into storage usage across OneLake, including system and soft-deleted data.

Two new updates are now available in preview, each addressing around data freshness and advanced capabilities on SQL analytics endpoint.

TypeScript 7 Beta Now Enabled by Default in Visual Studio 2026 18.6 Insiders 3 In Visual Studio 2026 18.6 Insiders 3 we have updated the built-in TypeScript SDK to TypeScript 7 Beta (native preview). The TypeScript SDK provides the compiler and language service used for TypeScript and JavaScript support in Visual Studio. This update impacts any...

Removing The Monkey Work of Migration; in this post we show how Git-Ape analyses an AWS deployment repo and generates an Azure-native replacement, with design critique built in. This post walks through a real migration workflow: start with an AWS deployment repo and end with an Azure deployment repo. The goal isn’t a 1:1 syntax...

Visual Studio now supports Agent Skills, which are reusable instruction sets that teach Copilot agents how to handle specific tasks like running a build pipeline, generating boilerplate, or following your team’s coding standards. Define a skill once, and the agent applies it automatically whenever it’s relevant. Creating a skill You can create a skill directly...

If you lead a development team, you already know the pattern. You approve the travel, your developers attend a great conference, they come back energized, and then the work resumes exactly as it was. The ideas don’t survive contact with the backlog. This July at VSLive! @ Microsoft HQ in Redmond, we’re trying to change...

How the GitHub Issues team used client-side caching, smart prefetching, and service workers to make navigation feel instant.

In April, we experienced 10 incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.

We're updating our bug bounty program standards to prioritize quality submissions, clarify shared responsibility boundaries, and evolve how we reward low-risk findings.

If any impact is discovered, customers will be notified via established incident response and notification channels.

Explore our update on GitHub’s accessibility strategy, and learn how you can join us in building a culture of accessibility.

You ask Copilot to tackle something big, it gets to work, and a dozen file changes later you realize you had a completely different approach in mind. The code isn’t wrong… it just isn’t what you were going for. Last year, we introduced planning as a feature in Agent mode to help with exactly this.

Check out these 10 open source tools that help game developers create art, animation, levels, audio, dialogue, debug UIs, and engine-ready assets.

We are committed to empowering every developer by building an open, secure, and AI-powered platform that defines the future of software development.

Anahit Hovhannisyan has spent more than a decade at Microsoft headquarters doing work that few people see, but nearly everyone depends on here in Microsoft Digital, the company’s internal IT organization. As a group program manager in Microsoft Digital, she oversees strategic areas of our license management, key third-party software, and suppliers for our AI...

When Microsoft 365 Copilot rolled out across our global Microsoft Sales and Service organization—a team of more than 60,000 employees—the initial reaction was clear: People were curious. But curiosity alone doesn’t change how work gets done. Engage with our experts! Customers or Microsoft account team representatives from Fortune 500 companies are welcome to request a...

Explore how agentic systems can create learning experiences that are as responsive as a teacher, as patient as a mentor, and as available as the moment curiosity strikes. Monica Arés builds learning systems at the intersection of emerging technology and human capability, from platform-based learning at Amazon to the first immersive learning ecosystem at Meta, and now agentic learning at Microsoft.

As data moves across tools and teams, security risks increase. Built for business professionals, the new Exam SC‑730 (beta) validates how you protect data, reduce risk, and respond to incidents. Work today depends on shared data, AI and cloud tools, and constant collaboration. As that expands, so do everyday security risks, phishing attempts, accidental data exposure...

Governance in the age of AI Unlocking the next generation of productivity tools Microsoft 365 Copilot combines the power of large language models (LLMs) with your organization’s data to turn employees’ words into some of the most powerful productivity tools on the planet—all within the flow of work. It suffuses the Microsoft 365 apps your...

Learn how tailoring AI to your thinking style can unlock surprising progress. This story shows how a neurodivergent creator used vibe coding to build practical tools and find renewed inspiration. Nency Yera is a Revenue Strategy professional at Microsoft who discovered vibe coding three months ago and hasn’t stopped building since. I have ADHD and no coding background. Until three months ago, the idea of building software made me want to close my laptop and walk away.

At Microsoft, we’re constantly thinking about the future of work—how the power of AI and agents is transforming the way knowledge workers do their jobs, streamlining workflows, and boosting employee productivity. These innovations have come in many different forms across every group and function at the company. It’s impossible to capture them all in a...

At first glance, AI transformation can look like a technology deployment project: New tools arrive, training programs launch, dashboards go live, and leaders focus on speed, scale, and rollout discipline. But in practice, the technical side of transformation is only part of the story. The missing piece is us humans. When we encounter these kinds...

At Microsoft, our network engineers work across multiple systems, including topology views, telemetry dashboards, logs, incidents, tickets, and fragmented tools. They piece together signals from these sources to understand what’s happening during an incident, often under considerable time pressure. But this kind of fragmentation slows down reasoning. Engineers spend more time navigating tools than diagnosing...

What’s it like to power the systems behind a global technology leader from the inside? Working in Microsoft Digital, the company’s internal IT organization, means being part of a group that operates at massive scale, deploying and managing the technology solutions that enable the company to collaborate, achieve, and fully embrace its shift to a...

Empowering employees and protecting your organization through agent governance Welcome to the agentic frontier Engage with our experts! Customers or Microsoft account team representatives from Fortune 500 companies are welcome to request a virtual engagement on this topic with experts from our Microsoft Digital team. Agents are expanding the frontier of enterprise AI. By creating...

Turn AI investment into real organizational momentum by strengthening the human skills that shape culture and guide decisions to help teams work confidently and creatively with AI.