Microsoft adds higher-priced Office tier with Copilot as it tries to juice sales with AI

Microsoft 365 E7 comes with Copilot, as well as identity, management and security features that might make more businesses adopt AI.
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Microsoft Agent Framework RC Simplifies Agentic Development in .NET and Python

Microsoft has announced that the Microsoft Agent Framework has reached Release Candidate status for both .NET and Python. This milestone indicates that the API surface is stable and feature-complete ...
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Microsoft ships .NET 10 LTS and Visual Studio 2026, Copilot everywhere

Microsoft has released C# 14 and .NET 10, a long-term support version, along with a bunch of related products including Visual Studio 2026 and Aspire 13. Copilot Free is included but devs will ...

Microsoft says ungoverned AI agents could become corporate 'double agents.' Its fix costs $99 a month.

Microsoft is launching Agent 365 and the new Microsoft 365 Enterprise E7 on May 1 to govern and secure enterprise AI agents—adding agent identities, observability, and zero-trust controls alongside ...
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Secure agentic AI for your Frontier Transformation

As our customers rapidly embrace agentic AI, chief information officers (CIOs), chief information security officers (CISOs), ...
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WinForms Gets Some AI Love in Visual Studio February Update

Microsoft's Visual Studio February Update (18.3) adds new Copilot agents and workflows for WinForms guidance, test generation, call stack analysis, profiling with unit tests, C++ modernization, and ...