Microsoft ships Agent Framework 1.0 but Azure's agent stack still spans too many surfaces while Google and AWS offer cleaner developer paths.

Microsoft has released version 1.0 of its open-source Agent Framework, positioning it as the production-ready evolution of the project introduced in October 2025 by combining Semantic Kernel ...

Two years ago, Microsoft announced that it would also build huge AI data centers in Germany. The first building permits for several buildings in the Rhenish lignite mining area are now available, and ...

Microsoft will fully phase out its Designer bot and Designer banners in Teams tomorrow. Read on to find out what will replace them going forward. Microsoft is set to retire the Designer bot and ...

AUSTIN, Texas, and REDMOND, Wash. — Feb. 18, 2026 — CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) on Wednesday announced an expansion of their strategic alliance that allows ...

Legacy .NET Framework version is now available as a standalone installer for applications that require it on newer versions of Windows. Microsoft’s .NET Framework 3 ...

Publishers have finally gained a content-licensing framework that provides a new revenue stream. During the past several months, Microsoft has been co-designing the “Publisher Content Marketplace” ...

Imagine Reddit, but only for AI bots. That’s the idea behind Moltbook — a new social media platform that debuted this week where 1.5 million AI agents communicate with each other without humans ...

Microsoft's Clarity has released a way to identify patterns that show how artificial intelligence (AI) crawlers, search bots, and automated agents interact with web content long before AI agents serve ...

Microsoft released KB5077793 to fix Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 authentication failures. January 2026 security update KB5073379 caused credential prompt failures across multiple Windows ...

What if you could cut hours of tedious work into minutes, all while making sure precision and creativity? In this walkthrough, David Fortin shows how Microsoft Copilot, with its innovative generative ...

Googlebot crawled more than 200 times the share reached by PerplexityBot. Civil society and nonprofit organizations became the most-attacked sector for the first time. Global Internet traffic grew 19% ...