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TL;DR Claude Opus 4.6 + Sonnet 4.6: Anthropic's frontier models arrive in Foundry with 1M-token context (beta), adaptive thinking, and context compaction — Opus for deep reasoning, Sonnet for cost-efficient scale. GPT-Realtime-1.5 & GPT-Audio-1.5: Next-gen audio models w Link to article: …
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We’re improving how add-ins appear on the ribbon in Outlook on the web and the new Outlook on Windows. These Outlook ribbon updates make add-ins easier to find and align the experience across Outlook clients. Improvements include: Showing the group name specified in your manifest for the add-in’s ribbon button (instead …
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Today we are excited to announce the Release Candidate (RC) of TypeScript 6.0! To get started using the RC, you can get it through npm with the following command: npm install -D typescript@rc TypeScript 6.0 is a unique release in t Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-6-0-rc
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A new release of the Microsoft build of Go including security fixes is now available for download. For more information about this release and the changes included, see the table below: Microsoft Release Upstream Tag Link to article: …
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A customer was using ReadDirectoryChangesW to monitor changes to a directory. However, they ran into a problem when they received a FILE_ACTION_REMOVED notification: Since the notification is raised when the item is deleted, they can't do a GetFileAttributesEx to find out whether Link to article: …
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Introduction: The Problem In a recent engagement, our team faced a complex challenge. Setting up a machine learning experiment required a long sequence of manual steps. None were individually hard, but together they created a fragile, error‑prone workflow. For example: – Users needed to provide key metadata (experiment …
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We briefly paused our quarterly release cycle to focus on reliability and performance, but now we're back with Windows Terminal 1.25! We are also updating Windows Terminal stable to version 1.24, which will include all of the features from Link to article: …
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The Model Context Protocol (MCP) C# SDK has reached its v1.0 milestone, bringing full support for the 2025-11-25 version of the MCP Specifi Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/release-v10-of-the-official-mcp-csharp-sdk
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Join us at GDC Festival of Gaming 2026 for a deep dive into Visual Studio, GitHub Copilot, PowerToys, and the Windows tools that speed up your daily dev workflow. We'll show how these tools work together to boost Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/visual-studio-at-gdc-festival-of-gaming-2026
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A customer had a program that created a window, then posted a message to it. They were surprised to find that the message was dispatched too soon. Specifically, it was dispatched before the program reached its main message loop, which is a problem because there is other preparatory work that happens after the window is …
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For the last decade, platform engineering has relied on explicit API interaction layers: CLIs, SDKs, pipelines, wrappers, and UI workflows that translate human intent into machine‑safe API calls. AI agents are now short‑circuiting much of that stack. By combining natural language understanding, reasoning, and direct …
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Explore agent orchestration, extensibility, and continuity in VS Code 1.110: lifecycle hooks, agent skills, session memory, and integrated browser tools. Read the full article Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/vscode-blog/making-agents-practical-for-real-world-development
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The Microsoft C++ team made big changes to optimization quality that we are proud to share with the release of Microsoft C++ (MSVC) Build Tools v14.51. We will use two benchmarks to illustrate the effect of these improvements compared to MSVC Build Tools v14.50. Our first benchmark is SPEC CPU 2017 Link to article: …
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The excitement is building as we head into the 2026 Game Developer Conference and the DirectX team has a lot to share. We will be showcasing major updates in asset streaming, GPU tooling, ML-powered real-time graphics on Windows, and shader compilation at GDC. Link to article: …
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What's new in the Visual Studio Code February 2026 Release (1.110). Read the full article Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/vscode-blog/february-2026-(version-1.110)
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Learn what is new in the Visual Studio Code February 2026 Release (1.110). Read the full article Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/external-blogs/february-2026-insiders-version-1-110
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In the documentation that describes the high-resolution timestamps, there is a question-and-answer section. Under what circumstances does QueryPerformanceFrequency return FALSE, or QueryPerformanceCounter return zero? This won't occur on any system that runs Windows XP or later. Link to article: …
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Swap deployment slots from your terminal—azd already knows your app. Azure App Service deployment slots let you stage changes and swap them into production with zero downtime. With azd, you can Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sdk/azd-appservice-swap
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As you may have noticed, sometimes I waste time Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260303-00/?p=112104
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