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Get started with GitHub Copilot CLI: A free, hands-on course
Learn GitHub Copilot CLI with this free, 8-chapter hands-on course. Review code, generate tests, debug issues, and build custom agents and skills - all from your terminal. No AI experience needed. Works with GitHub Copilot Free. Clone the repo or open in Codespaces to get started.
Read moreClick to read more about this postPlatform Engineering for the Agentic AI era
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...
Read moreClick to read more about this postVisual Studio at GDC Festival of Gaming 2026
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 productivity and cut friction across your entire inner loop.
Session...
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Mar 16, 2026
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Windows stack limit checking retrospective: PowerPC
Doing the math backwards.
The Old New Thing
Mar 16, 2026
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Now Generally Available: Cosmos DB Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric with Private Networks
We’re excited to announce the general availability of private network support for Azure Cosmos DB mirroring in Microsoft Fabric, enabling customers to replicate operational data into Fabric from Azure Cosmos DB accounts secured with private endpoints or virtual networks while continuing...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Mar 13, 2026
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The Human Scale Problem in Platform Engineering
Diego,
Ray
We keep doing this thing where we solve a problem, celebrate the victory, then realize we've created three new problems we didn't even know existed.
Remember when manually configuring servers was the bottleneck? So we built containers. Great! Now we're orchestrating thousands of them....
All things Azure
Mar 13, 2026
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March Patches for Azure DevOps Server
We are releasing patches for our self‑hosted product, Azure DevOps Server. We strongly recommend that all customers stay on the latest, most secure version of Azure DevOps Server. The latest release, Azure DevOps Server, is available from the download page.
This patch addresses an...
Azure DevOps Blog
Mar 13, 2026
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Azure Developer CLI (azd): Debug hosted AI agents from your terminal
New azd ai agent show and monitor commands help you diagnose hosted AI agent failures directly from the CLI.
Azure SDK Blog
Mar 13, 2026
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Windows stack limit checking retrospective: MIPS
Optimizing out the unnecessary probes comes with its own complexity.
The Old New Thing
Mar 13, 2026
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What's New in Agent Skills: Code Skills, Script Execution, and Approval for Python
Code-Defined Skills, Script Execution, and Approval for Agent Skills in Python
When we introduced Agent Skills for Microsoft Agent Framework, you could package domain expertise as file-based skill directories and have agents discover and load them on demand. Now, the Python SDK takes...
Microsoft Agent Framework
Mar 12, 2026
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Evolving DirectX for the ML Era on Windows
Adele,
Serena
At GDC this year, we shared how machine learning is becoming foundational to real time graphics, and how DirectX is evolving to meet that shift across shader level and model level ML. ML is no longer a niche optimization or a postprocess trick. It’s increasingly embedded throughout the...
DirectX Developer Blog
Mar 12, 2026
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Microsoft at JavaOne: Empowering Java developers to lead the next era of AI
Java has powered some of the world’s most mission‑critical systems for decades and that’s a big part of why we’re excited to be back with the community at JavaOne 2026 (March 17–19 in Redwood City). At Microsoft, we get to work with Java teams every day: folks shipping at...
Microsoft for Java Developers