Microsoft’s Azure-based AI development and deployment platform shines with a strong selection of models and agent types and an excellent playground for experimenting with agents.

A small social media poll from Visual Studio guru Mads Kristensen split respondents over whether the IDE should add more database tooling, while the discussion quickly turned to existing SQL project ...

Visual Studio has never really been the lightweight option. It's not the tool you open just to tweak a config file or write a quick script. It is the big Windows development environment, the one built ...

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Remember when "prompt engineer" job posts were listing salaries north of $300,000? Much has changed since then, and the "engineer" aspect has dimmed, with prompting advice, tools and resources freely ...

Copilot Agent Mode is now the default for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Premium subscribers. Copilot Agent Mode is now the default for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Premium subscribers. is a senior ...

Microsoft is planning its first voluntary ‌employee buyout in the Windows ⁠maker's 51-year history, CNBC reported on Thursday. The one-time ‌retirement programme will be open ‌to US ‌workers at ⁠the ...

Microsoft beat on the top and bottom lines and on Azure cloud growth. The company said it had over 20 million paid seats for the Microsoft 365 Copilot artificial intelligence add-on for commercial ...

Microsoft is offering voluntary retirement buyouts for the first time in its 51-year history, per reports from CNBC and Bloomberg. According to an internal memo, employees will be eligible if their ...

A wave of new prompt engineering methods, toolkits, and AI integrations is transforming how Microsoft Copilot is used across industries. From a structured method that separates task goals from ...

Azure cloud revenue growth matches estimates, but lags Google Cloud's 63% surge Microsoft's $190 billion capital outlay exceeds analyst expectations, driven by AI investments Microsoft adds 5 million ...

Microsoft's one-time retirement program will be open to U.S. workers at the senior director level and below whose years of employment and age add up to 70 or more. The company is also decoupling stock ...