The Tech Radar - Issue #15 (April 2026)

By Martin Moyér May 4, 2026

Microsoft introduced GPT-5.5 in Microsoft Foundry, enhancing AI capabilities on Azure, while also launching advanced data residency for Microsoft 365 in Denmark.

AWS announced the general availability of Claude Opus 4.7 in Amazon Bedrock, improving AI performance, and introduced cross-account safeguards in Amazon Bedrock Guardrails.

Google launched the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform for enhanced AI capabilities and introduced new inference tiers in the Gemini API to balance cost and reliability.

OpenAI unveiled Advanced Account Security to enhance data protection and announced the availability of GPT-5.5 for enterprise applications.

Salesforce reported a 28% increase in code coverage without writing tests, showcasing efficiency in their engineering processes.

SAP expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to deploy multi-agent AI solutions for customer experience optimization.

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Updates on Azure OpenAI Service, Azure AI Machine Learning, Azure AI Foundry, Azure Cognitive Services, the Copilot ecosystem, agentic AI, and more

Microsoft named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide API Management 2026 Vendor Assessment

In this article Built on a proven foundation extending into AI One platform to scale APIs and AI Governance by design for AI at scale Turning AI innovation into business impact Expanding the platform for what’s next As AI moves into production, how systems interact is fundamentally changing. Organizations must now manage not just APIs, but how AI systems operate across the enterprise.

Apr 28, 2026 Read more

OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 in Microsoft Foundry: Frontier intelligence on an enterprise ready platform

OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 will be generally available tomorrow in Microsoft Foundry , bringing OpenAI’s latest frontier model to Azure and the enterprise teams building agents for real production work. GPT-5.5 continues a clear progression in the GPT-5 series. GPT-5 brought unified reasoning and speed into a single system. GPT-5.4 brought stronger multi-step reasoning and early agentic capabilities for enterprise use. GPT-5.

Apr 23, 2026 Read more

Microsoft Discovery: Advancing agentic R&D at scale

Transforming R&D with agentic AI: Introducing Microsoft Discovery Read the blog Over the past year, we’ve made significant progress with Microsoft Discovery by working closely with research and development (R&D) organizations. Today, we’re sharing how those efforts are translating into real momentum for customers and partners, while also expanding preview access to Microsoft Discovery.

Apr 22, 2026 Read more

Cloud Cost Optimization: Principles that still matter

In this article What is cloud cost optimization and why does it still matter? How AI workloads change traditional cost optimization Cloud cost optimization best practices for AI and modern workloads Cloud cost management versus cost optimization Measuring value alongside cloud cost optimization Next steps for cloud cost optimization on Azure This blog post is the second in a multi-part series called Cloud Cost Optimization .

Apr 15, 2026 Read more

Cloud Cost Optimization: How to maximize ROI from AI, manage costs, and unlock real business value

In this article Why ROI from AI is now a top business priority AI cost management: Strategic considerations AI cost optimization vs. cloud cost optimization: Why they're different Connecting AI cost optimization to AI business value Managing ROI across the AI lifecycle How Microsoft supports sustainable AI adoption Turning AI adoption into measurable ROI A centralized resource for maximizing ROI from AI This blog post is the first in a multi-part series called Cloud Cost Optimization .

Apr 8, 2026 Read more

Cricket Australia uses AI Insights to bring fans closer to the action

When England and Australia faced off on Day 5 of the fifth Test of the always tense Ashes cricket series in January, every ball bowled and solid crack had fans on the edge of their seats both at the Sydney Cricket Ground and around the globe. As Australia looked to extend its winning streak to four straight Ashes on home soil, it was clear that left-handed batter Travis Head was leading the way for Australia as the runs piled up. But just how good was his performance?

Apr 23, 2026 Read more

Your AI steering committee’s 2026 checklist: Observability

Every organization wants AI to move faster and more intelligently. However, as they move from conversational assistants to autonomous agentic systems, enterprises are finding that the biggest bottleneck isn’t the technology—it’s the ability to ensure control. To maintain velocity and control in 2026, steering committees must answer a fundamental question : Do we have line-of-sight and control over the AI agents being deployed knowing exactly what they are, what data they touch, and what they...

Apr 16, 2026 Read more

Frontier Transformation is powering growth and innovation across industries

Across industries, we are witnessing a fundamental shift. Organizations are moving past AI experimentation and laying the foundations for Frontier Transformation —using AI to drive innovation and growth. This evolution depends on both intelligence and trust. Intelligence is the unique human and organizational data, context, and expertise that makes AI relevant and grounded in the realities of work. Trust ensures that AI can scale securely and responsibly.

Apr 15, 2026 Read more

The New York Jets are happy to have a ‘Titan’ in their corner at the NFL Draft

When NFL commissioner Roger Goodell announces that the New York Jets are “officially on the clock” during this month’s NFL Draft , the franchise will have an opportunity to reshape its roster by choosing some of the best college talent available. And with four picks at the time of this writing – including No. 2 overall – within the first 44 selections, the need to add several impact players is paramount as they face off against some of the AFC’s best teams.

Apr 14, 2026 Read more

Security

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Security updates, identity protection, compliance tools, and threat intelligence, including Microsoft Defender, Sentinel, Security Copilot, Entra and more.

AI-powered defense for an AI-accelerated threat landscape

Read how Microsoft is partnering with Anthropic and broader industry to use leading models, paired with our platforms and expertise, to turn AI-driven discovery into protection at scale.

Apr 22, 2026 Read more

Detection strategies across cloud and identities against infiltrating IT workers

The shift to remote and hybrid work since the pandemic expanded global hiring and accelerated digital onboarding, increasing reliance on online identity verification and remote access.

Apr 21, 2026 Read more

Making opportunistic cyberattacks harder by design

How Microsoft secures Dynamics 365 and Power Platform by removing credentials, reducing attack surfaces, and using platform engineering to block opportunistic threats.

Apr 20, 2026 Read more

Cross‑tenant helpdesk impersonation to data exfiltration: A human-operated intrusion playbook

Threat actors are abusing external Microsoft Teams collaboration to impersonate IT helpdesk staff and convince users to grant remote access. Once inside, attackers can abuse legitimate tools and standard admin protocols to move laterally and exfiltrate data while appearing as routine IT support—activity Microsoft Defender helps detect across Teams, endpoint, and identity telemetry.

Apr 18, 2026 Read more

Containing a domain compromise: How predictive shielding shut down lateral movement

Domain compromise accelerates fast. Predictive shielding slowed it down. This real-world attack shows how exposure-based containment stopped credential abuse and broke the threat actor's momentum.

Apr 17, 2026 Read more

Building your cryptographic inventory: A customer strategy for cryptographic posture management

Learn how to build a comprehensive cryptographic inventory and strengthen quantum‑safe readiness using Microsoft Security tools, best‑practice lifecycle models, and partner solutions.

Apr 16, 2026 Read more

Dissecting Sapphire Sleet’s macOS intrusion from lure to compromise

The Microsoft Defender Security Research Team uncovered a sophisticated macOS intrusion campaign attributed to the North Korean threat actor Sapphire Sleet that abuses user driven execution and social engineering to bypass macOS security protections and steal credentials, cryptocurrency assets, and sensitive data.

Apr 16, 2026 Read more

Incident response for AI: Same fire, different fuel

AI changes how incidents unfold and how we respond. Learn which IR practices still apply and where new telemetry, tools, and skills are needed.

Apr 15, 2026 Read more

The agentic SOC—Rethinking SecOps for the next decade

In the SOC of the future, autonomous defense moves at machine speed, agents add context and coordination, and humans focus on judgment, risk, and outcomes.

Apr 9, 2026 Read more

Investigating Storm-2755: “Payroll pirate” attacks targeting Canadian employees

Microsoft Incident Response – Detection and Response Team (DART) researchers observed an emerging, financially motivated threat actor, tracked as Storm-2755, compromising Canadian employee accounts to gain unauthorized access to employee profiles and divert salary payments to attacker-controlled accounts.

Apr 9, 2026 Read more

Microsoft 365

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Updates on Microsoft 365, Copilot & Microsoft 365 Copilot, Teams, Viva, and other productivity and collaboration tools

Microsoft 365 and Advanced Data Residency now available in Denmark

We are excited to announce that Microsoft 365 and the Microsoft 365 Advanced Data Residency add-on (ADR) are now available for commercial customers in our new cloud region in Denmark. Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo Capabilities for Denmark will be available soon. The Advanced Data Residency and Multi-Geo Capabilities add-ons offer customers provisioned in Denmark greater control over the location of their cloud data.

Apr 1, 2026 Read more

What’s New in Microsoft Teams | March 2026

Welcome once again to everyone in our Microsoft Tech Community! We’re glad you’ve joined us to check out a fresh lineup of Teams features designed to keep you productive, secure, and connected. Before we dive in, mark your calendars: the Microsoft 365 Community Conference is coming up in April! Join us to learn the new ways Teams and Copilot help you stay in the flow of work. And now to the main event: new Teams capabilities! This month's updates have something for everyone.

Apr 1, 2026 Read more

New and improved: Multi-agent orchestration, connected experiences, and faster prompt iteration

Learn what’s new in Copilot Studio: Multi-agent systems are now generally available, plus recent updates to the Prompt Editor and governance controls.

Apr 1, 2026 Read more

Women are leading the future of intelligent work at Microsoft 365 Community Conference

At the Microsoft 365 Community Conference this April 21–23 in Orlando, we’re proud to spotlight a range of experiences created to support, connect, and celebrate women across the tech community—from leadership panels and networking opportunities to professional development sessions designed to help you grow your impact and your career. Join us for the Women in Tech & Allies Lunch on Wednesday, April 22 sponsored by AvePoint and explore Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Professional Development..

Apr 10, 2026 Read more

Bring your everyday business apps into the flow of work with agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft 365 Copilot can now bring your go-to apps directly into the conversation, which closes the gap between AI-powered insight and real, in-app action.

Apr 13, 2026 Read more

Only 6 months until Office LTSC 2021 end of support – are you ready?

Continuing to use software after end of support can leave your devices vulnerable to potential security threats, productivity losses, and compliance issues. That’s why it’s important to know that in just six months, on October 13, 2026 , support will end for Office LTSC 2021 suites and standalone applications (see the full list of impacted products below). After that date, Microsoft will no longer provide security fixes, bug fixes, or technical support for these products.

Apr 13, 2026 Read more

Copilot in Word: New Capabilities for Document Workflows

Today, we are introducing new Copilot in Word capabilities for legal, finance, and compliance professionals doing high stakes, and detail intensive work. Whether reviewing contracts or finalizing policy documents, Copilot can track changes when an audit trail is needed. This release supports the way professionals work, where document integrity is non-negotiable.

Apr 13, 2026 Read more

Copilot’s agentic capabilities in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are generally available

From first draft to final polish, Copilot acts as a true collaborator, taking action while you stay in control.

Apr 23, 2026 Read more

Register today for the Microsoft 365 Archive + Orchestry webinar

Join us for a live webinar on May 7, 9:00 am PDT, with Trent Green, Microsoft, and David Francoeur, Orchestry, to learn more about what file-level archiving does, how it works, and how to turn it into a scalable, automated strategy across your tenant. Register now for the May 7 webinar File-Level Archival: The Next Frontier of Microsoft 365 Storage Optimization May 7, 2026 | 9:00 AM PDT Optimizing storage costs with file-level archiving We recently launched the public preview of file-level...

Apr 23, 2026 Read more

Available today: GPT-5.5 Thinking and ChatGPT Images 2.0 in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Today, we’re expanding what Microsoft 365 Copilot can do with GPT-5.5 Thinking and ChatGPT Images 2.0 bringing stronger support for deeper analysis, multi-step work, and visual creation. GPT-5.5 Thinking is now available in Copilot Studio early release cycle environments as GPT-5.5 Reasoning and is rolling out across Microsoft 365 Copilot in Copilot Chat, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. ChatGPT Images 2.0 is rolling out to Copilot in PowerPoint and coming soon to Copilot Chat.

Apr 27, 2026 Read more

SharePoint Framework (SPFx) roadmap update – April 2026

April continues the strong momentum for the SharePoint Framework and the broader Microsoft 365 extensibility ecosystem. Over the past month, we have been making steady progress across the SPFx roadmap, refining delivery plans, connecting with the community in person, and preparing the next wave of platform updates. As always, our focus remains on quality, predictability, and enabling real-world scenarios for customers, partners, and developers building solutions at scale.

Apr 28, 2026 Read more

Focus on the Teams Phone calls that matter most with Copilot call delegation

Incoming calls don’t wait for a break in your day. Whether you’re leading a meeting or juggling back-to-back commitments, every new call creates the same dilemma: answer and risk losing momentum, or ignore it and risk missing something important. We're excited to announce that Microsoft 365 Copilot can now help answer your incoming Teams calls and schedule follow-up appointments on your behalf.

Apr 28, 2026 Read more

Copilot in OneNote now understands more of your notes

In Microsoft OneNote, you can use Copilot to reason over your notes to summarize content, extract key insights, and build on your ideas. We’ve improved the way Copilot responds to your queries in OneNote, making it easier to interact with your notes using natural, everyday language. Copilot in OneNote now understands images, tables, and more Copilot in OneNote can now better understand your notes beyond typed text—including note tags, images, and tables—to deliver more accurate responses to...

Apr 29, 2026 Read more

Microsoft 365 Backup granular restore now generally available!

Data recovery shouldn’t feel like an all-or-nothing decision. Until now, Microsoft 365 Backup allowed you to recover OneDrive accounts and SharePoint sites. We’re excited to announce granular browse and restore for OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online, giving IT teams a more selective way to recover individual files and folders when something goes wrong, while leaving the rest of your environment untouched.

Apr 29, 2026 Read more

From prompt to production: Teams agent setup, simplified

You want to build a Teams agent. Maybe it answers customer questions from a knowledge base. Maybe it runs your team’s standups. The interesting part is the logic, the thing the agent actually does . But before you write a single line of that logic, you have to register it with Teams. That takes a number of steps. How it works today Getting an agent into Teams requires configuring an identity, generating credentials, authoring a manifest, and wiring it all together.

Apr 29, 2026 Read more

Dynamics 365 & Power Platform

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Updates on Dynamics 365 and Power Platform, including Project Operations, Supply Chain Management, and other business applications

Dataverse Skills: Your Coding Agent Now Speaks Dataverse

Building enterprise solutions is shifting from writing code to directing AI agents. Instead of stitching together APIs, CLIs, and scripts, developers are increasingly describing intent and letting agents execute. For enterprise platforms like Dataverse, this creates a new requirement: they must be operable by agents, not just by humans. Today we’re releasing Dataverse Skills — an open-source plugin for coding agents like GitHub Copilot and Claude Code that gives them deep, practical knowledge...

Apr 1, 2026 Read more

Agent Academy Spring Drop: Special Ops, Cowork Collective, and a Whole New Look

We’ve shipped a big round of updates to Agent Academy. Two new sections, a completely redone site experience, and more missions on the way. Here’s what’s changed. Quick recap for anyone new Agent Academy is a free, open-source curriculum for learning how to build agents with Microsoft Copilot Studio. Since launching in August 2025, it has crossed one million views , which tells us the community is hungry for guided, hands-on content around building and using agents.

Apr 6, 2026 Read more

Power Platform Monitor Alerts Are Now Generally Available

We are excited to announce that Power Platform Monitor alerts are now generally available! Since entering public preview in August 2025, many organizations have created alert rules to stay on top of app, agent and flow health. Reliability is critical when alerts are used to detect and respond to issues in production. Today, Monitor alerts meet the reliability and maturity standards required for general availability, following sustained investments to improve quality and simplify onboarding.

Apr 8, 2026 Read more

Trigger post-call actions using caller hang-up events

In contact centers, a voice conversation does not end when the call disconnects. That’s when critical work begins – logging outcomes, updating systems, triggering workflows, and ensuring compliance. Yet today, post-call actions are often delayed, inconsistent, or dependent on manual or external processes. With caller hang-up event support in Dynamics 365 Contact Center and Copilot Studio, we are changing that.

Apr 15, 2026 Read more

Build your server-side logic with AI: new Power Pages Agentic Code skills

We’re introducing three new skills for the Power Pages agentic code plugin for GitHub Copilot and Claude Code CLI that together unlock a missing capability in AI‑assisted site building: server‑side logic. Until now, the plugin could scaffold sites, define data models, wire up Web APIs, configure authentication, and handle deployment but all business logic, cloud flows, and implementation decisions were still manual. These new skills change that predicament.

Apr 16, 2026 Read more

Becoming a Frontier Manufacturing Firm: Agentic decisions across the manufacturing value chain

Manufacturing leaders today are under constant pressure: volatile demand, fragile supply networks, inventory risk, and zero tolerance for missed customer commitments. Plants must protect margins and maintain uptime while responding to disruption with incomplete or delayed information. To lead in this environment, manufacturers need decision-making that surfaces risk earlier, absorb supply shocks faster, and replans quickly, so production stays aligned to demand and customer commitments.

Apr 16, 2026 Read more

Intelligent apps, human leadership, and the new shape of work

When people talk about AI at work, the conversation usually jumps straight to speed. Faster tasks. Faster decisions. Faster output. In my recent conversation with Keith Kirkpatrick, President and Research Director with Futurum Group , we spent less time talking about how quickly agents can act—and more time talking about who stays in control, how work actually gets done, and why intelligent apps matter more than ever. The future of work isn’t about humans racing to keep up with machines.

Apr 20, 2026 Read more

More Secure SharePoint Integration in Power Pages with Site‑Scoped Permissions

Strong security and governance are essential for any external-facing web presence. Power Pages now strengthens this with enhanced SharePoint permission management shifting from broad site collection access to precise, site-level controls. Key improvements Site-level scoping instead of site collection wide access Reduced exposure of unrelated SharePoint content Stronger alignment with least-privilege security principles This change ensures that Power Pages site only has access to the SharePoint..

Apr 23, 2026 Read more

Turning customer experience into a growth engine

Announcing new agentic customer experience capabilities in Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Copilot Studio across the entire customer lifecycle. For years, customer experience (CX) leaders have navigated hard tradeoffs between better service and lower costs or faster resolution and deeper personalization, all while customer expectations continue to rise and teams are asked to do more with aging systems and flat headcount. Scaling growth meant scaling people. But that model has its limits.

Apr 27, 2026 Read more

Meet Your Agentic Contact Center

For years, contact centers have shouldered some of the most persistent challenges in customer experience. They’re expected to help differentiate brands, improve customer retention, surface new revenue opportunities, and reduce frontline burnout — all while managing rising interaction volumes and escalating costs. Artificial intelligence has been positioned as the answer, and investment has accelerated accordingly.

Apr 27, 2026 Read more

From Ideas to Impact: How Frontier Firms scale agents with confidence

In a recent conversation I had with Futurum Vice President and Software Lifecycle Engineering Practice Lead, Mitch Ashley , we talked about a pattern we’re seeing again and again with customers that are exploring agents. Most organizations can easily identify dozens—or hundreds—of potential agentic use cases. The challenge they often face is determining how to move from their long list of options to real solutions that drive meaningful business impact, without stalling in pilot mode or creating.

Apr 27, 2026 Read more

Introducing Expense Agent in Dynamics 365 Business Central

Every organization—regardless of size—incurs employee expenses for travel, meals, office supplies, mileage, per diem, and more. When these expenses are managed without a structured, automated process, companies may face higher administrative overhead and compliance challenges, compliance risks, while employees can experience delayed reimbursements, limited transparency, and additional friction.

Apr 27, 2026 Read more

Bringing End‑to‑End Visibility to Customer Service and Contact Centers with Screen Recording in Dynamics 365

Modern customer experiences don’t live in a single system or interaction type. Whether agents resolve complex cases in Dynamics Customer Service or manage live conversations in Dynamics Contact Center , the quality of an interaction often depends on how the work is performed and not just what was said. Across both workloads, customers have consistently asked for the same missing capability: secure, structured visibility into the agent’s on ‑ screen workflow during customer interactions .

Apr 28, 2026 Read more

The New Loop: How Power Pages Builds Software with AI

Introduction When I started writing software professionally in 2015, the tech landscape looked completely different. Tools and frameworks kept evolving since then, but the process of building software barely moved for a decade. That changed in the last couple of months. Here’s what has changed in how the Power Pages team builds and ships software and what hasn’t. Development in the age of AI Before the arrival of coding agents like GitHub Copilot, Claude Code etc.

Apr 29, 2026 Read more

Introducing Governance in Dynamics 365 Customer Service: A New Era of Policy-Driven Communication

In an increasingly connected world, organizations engage customers across diverse cultures, languages, and legal frameworks. A product or service feels most trustworthy when it shows respect for local customs, acknowledges regulatory differences and avoids culturally biased or region-specific references. That’s why we’re excited to introduce Governance for Dynamics 365 Customer Service , now available in Public Preview.

Apr 29, 2026 Read more

Azure

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Updates on Azure cloud services, including Azure compute, networking, storage and hybrid solutions, Arc, Kubernetes, and more

Project Nighthawk: A Research Agent Built for Field Engineering

If you work in field engineering, you know the scenario. A customer is deploying AKS in a regulated environment. They hit an issue during node bootstrapping. They want to know exactly what happens when a node joins the cluster, which components run in which order, and whether the behaviour they’re seeing is expected. The question sounds simple. The answer is not. The answer is spread across half a dozen places at once.

Apr 1, 2026 Read more

Bookmark Studio: evolving bookmarks in Visual Studio

Bookmarks in Visual Studio have always been a simple, reliable feature. Many developers use them regularly, and over the years we’ve heard consistent feedback from those users. Bookmarks were useful, but there were a few core gaps that kept them from being as effective and relevant as they could be. Navigation was one of the biggest pain points. You could move between bookmarks, but there was no easy way to jump directly to a specific bookmark using the keyboard.

Apr 1, 2026 Read more

Azure IaaS: Keep critical applications running with built-in resiliency at scale

This blog post is the second part of a blog series called Azure IaaS which will share best practices and guidance to help you build a trusted infrastructure platform — from performance, resiliency, and security to scalability and cost efficiency. Disruption should not be treated as an edge case. It is a reality organizations must be prepared to navigate. That preparation starts with resiliency as a core design principle, not an afterthought.

Apr 1, 2026 Read more

DevOps Playbook for the Agentic Era

Practices, Principles, and Strategic Direction Software delivery has entered a new phase. AI agents are no longer confined to autocomplete suggestions in the editor. They are opening pull requests, generating code across multiple files, proposing infrastructure changes, responding to issues with working implementations, and executing multi-step engineering tasks with minimal human intervention.

Apr 15, 2026 Read more

Choosing the Right Azure Hosting Model for AI Agents: A Deep Dive into Foundry Hosted Agents

AI agents are quickly moving from experiments to production‑critical components of modern applications. But while many teams know how to build agents, far fewer are confident they’re hosting them on the right foundation . Most organizations start by deploying agents the same way they deploy microservices—containers, functions, or app services. That approach works initially.

Apr 15, 2026 Read more

Stop Hunting Bugs: Meet the New Visual Studio Debugger Agent Workflow

We’ve all been there: a bug report lands in your inbox with a title like “App crashes sometimes” and zero reproduction steps. Your morning, which was supposed to be spent building new features, is now a forensic investigation. You’re setting scattershot breakpoints, staring at the call stack, and trying to guess what the original reporter was thinking. Debugging isn’t just about fixing code; it’s about reducing uncertainty .

Apr 15, 2026 Read more

Azure MCP tools now ship built into Visual Studio 2022 — no extension required

Azure MCP tools now ship built into Visual Studio 2022 — no extension required Azure MCP tools are now built into Visual Studio 2022 as part of the Azure development workload — no separate extension to find, install, or update. You can enable over 230 tools across 45 Azure services directly in GitHub Copilot Chat and manage Azure resources, deployments, and diagnostics without leaving your IDE.

Apr 15, 2026 Read more

Introducing Azure Accelerate for Databases: Modernize your data for AI with experts and investments

In this article Database modernization: Why now? Why Azure Accelerate for Databases? What you can do with Azure Accelerate for Databases Unlock savings and investments Get started with Azure Accelerate for Databases Database modernization: Why now? We consistently hear common realities from leaders: data infrastructure is a critical accelerator for AI adoption, and many organizations haven’t been able to fully realize the value of their data.

Apr 22, 2026 Read more

Cross-workspace logging for MLflow in Microsoft Fabric: Build MLOps workflows with confidence (Generally Available)

Machine learning teams need more than a great model — they need a reliable way to move that model from experimentation to production. Cross-workspace logging for MLflow in Microsoft Fabric, is a capability that enables you to build end-to-end MLOps workflows using the standard MLflow APIs you already know. Log_ML_models_from_Databricks_to_Fabric Figure: Animated gif of Log ML models from Databricks to Fabric.

Apr 23, 2026 Read more

Resource instance rules for OneLake in Microsoft Fabric (Preview)

As enterprises adopt OneLake as their unified data lake for analytics, securing how external services access data in OneLake becomes increasingly important—especially in environments where public internet access must be tightly controlled. Today, we’re introducing resource instance rules for OneLake in preview. This new capability allows workspace admins to explicitly allow inbound access from trusted Azure resource instances, without relying on IP allowlists or requiring private networking in..

Apr 23, 2026 Read more

Nested folders support in shortcut transformations (Generally Available)

Nested folders, shortcut transformations, subfolder processing, OneLake, shortcuts, Lakehouse Data lakes rarely come in flat structures. In practice, data is organized across multi-level folder hierarchies, partitioned by date, region, source system, or business unit. Previously, shortcut transformations processed files at a single folder level, requiring users to set up separate transforms for each subdirectory.

Apr 23, 2026 Read more

Microsoft Sovereign Private Cloud scales to thousands of nodes with Azure Local

Today, I am pleased to announce that Azure Local now scales to support deployments of up to thousands of servers within a single sovereign environment, allowing organizations to run much larger workloads locally across large-footprint datacenters, industrial environments and edge locations while maintaining control within their sovereign boundary. Organizations operating national infrastructure, regulated workloads or mission-critical services are navigating a fundamental shift in how cloud...

Apr 27, 2026 Read more

GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with Markdown

Welcome back to GitHub for Beginners. We’ve covered a wide range of topics so far this season, including GitHub Issues and Projects , GitHub Actions , security, and GitHub Pages. Now we’re going to teach you everything you need to know to get started with Markdown, the markup language used across GitHub. Once you learn the basics of how to use Markdown, you’ll develop an essential skill that will transform how you write READMEs as well as how to format issues, pull requests, and your agent...

Apr 28, 2026 Read more

Visual Studio April Update – Cloud Agent Integration

GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio is becoming more agentic with every release. This update brings cloud agent integration front and center, letting you start remote coding sessions without leaving the IDE. Custom agents now support user-level definitions that travel with you across projects, C++ code editing tools for agent mode are generally available, and a new Debugger Agent that validates fixes against real runtime behavior. Download Visual Studio 2026 to try everything in this update.

Apr 28, 2026 Read more

SDK-Style Support for Extension Projects

Starting in Visual Studio 18.5 , you can create and build Visual Studio extensions (VSIX) using an officially supported SDK-style project. This brings VSIX projects into the modern build and deployment pipeline, improving incremental build performance and making the build → deploy → debug workflow more reliable. Install the Visual Studio extension development workload to get the templates and tooling and try it out for yourself! Note: Extensions written using the modern VisualStudio.

Apr 29, 2026 Read more

Industry Solutions & Innovation

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Updates and news on research, skilling, as well as tailored solutions and innovations for industries including healthcare, manufacturing, financial services, and more

Our fantastic four: Embracing your work style with Microsoft 365 Copilot

What’s your work style? Here at Microsoft Digital, the company’s IT organization, we’ve identified four major “work identities,” or ways of working. Or, as we sometimes like to call them: Our fantastic four! Analyzers Collaborators Innovators Planners Everyone has a work style. Find the one that matches yours, and we’ll show you the Microsoft 365 apps and Copilot features that best complement it—helping you get more done every day. The challenge of modern work: Focus Engage with our experts!

Apr 23, 2026 Read more

Transforming facility operations at Microsoft with AI maps

Indoor building maps matter the moment accurate location data become important to solving an issue in facilities. Imagine a facilities service technician responding to a high‑priority heating issue. The service ticket has the right building, floor and space, but no clear indication of where in the space the problem exactly is—this can be a particularly challenging problem when dealing with large spaces like we do here at Microsoft.

Apr 23, 2026 Read more

Unfolding our AI in IT story: What to expect at the 2026 Microsoft 365 Community Conference

This article is about an event that is now completed. We leave the post up on our site as a record of the conference and the topics covered by some of our Microsoft Digital subject matter experts. At Microsoft Digital, the company’s IT organization, we shape and propel many of our groundbreaking products through our role as the company’s Customer Zero—and we want to tell that story.

Apr 20, 2026 Read more

Becoming a Frontier Firm: A guide for deploying AI agents based on our experience at Microsoft

What this guide contains Our journey to becoming a Frontier Firm at Microsoft Chapter 1: Advancing good governance to meet the agentic moment Chapter 2: The Microsoft roadmap for implementing agents Chapter 3: Driving adoption to capture value across the organization Chapter 4: Providing support at the agentic frontier Chapter 5: Tracking the impact of your agents Applying lessons from our agent deployment at your organization A how-to guide for governing, implementing, adopting, supporting,...

Apr 16, 2026 Read more

Reclaiming engineering time with AI in Azure DevOps at Microsoft

At Microsoft Digital, the company’s IT organization, we’re reimagining how engineers, product managers, and program managers work. Microsoft Azure DevOps (ADO) is our company’s end-to-end software development lifecycle (SDLC) solution for planning, coding, testing, and delivery. It combines tools for work tracking, source control, pipelines, and artifacts so teams can manage the entire SDLC in one environment.

Apr 16, 2026 Read more

Microsoft CISO advice: How to build trustworthy agentic AI

Building production-ready solutions with agentic AI comes with inherent risks. When agents make mistakes or hallucinate, the potential impacts can multiply rapidly. “It turns out that it’s very easy to write AI-powered software, but it’s very hard to write AI-powered software that works right in real-world cases,” says Yonatan Zunger, CVP and deputy CISO for Microsoft. Yunger explains how important it is to test if you want to build trustworthy agentic AI.

Apr 16, 2026 Read more

Continuing the story of early DOS development

Over the last few years, we’ve been working to open some of the earliest chapters of Microsoft’s operating system history. In 2018 we (re)-open-sourced MS‑DOS 1.25 and 2.11, and more recently in 2024 we were able to make the source for MS‑DOS 4.0 available to the public as well. Today, on 86-DOS 1.00’s 45th anniversary, we’re continuing that tradition by preserving the earliest DOS source code discovered to date.

Apr 28, 2026 Read more

How Drasi used GitHub Copilot to find documentation bugs

For early-stage open-source projects, the “Getting started” guide is often the first real interaction a developer has with the project. If a command fails, an output doesn’t match, or a step is unclear, most users won’t file a bug report, they will just move on. Drasi , a CNCF sandbox project that detects changes in your data and triggers immediate reactions, is supported by our small team of four engineers in Microsoft Azure’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer.

Apr 9, 2026 Read more

Introducing the Agent Governance Toolkit: Open-source runtime security for AI agents

AI agents are crossing a threshold. They’re no longer just answering questions in chat windows, they’re booking flights, executing trades, writing code, and managing infrastructure autonomously. Frameworks like LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI, Microsoft Agent Framework, and Microsoft Foundry Agent Service have made it remarkably easy to build agents that reason, plan, and act. But as agents gain autonomy, a critical question emerges: who governs what they do?

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