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Microsoft doubles down on Rust

Microsoft has promoted the Rust programming language to Tier-1 status internally and begun integrating it with the Microsoft Visual C++ tool chain for Windows development.

By Simon Bisson

Oct 1, 2026 8 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET Rust

MSBuild explained: Understanding Microsoft’s build platform

MSBuild is more powerful than you might think, as it’s usually hidden behind an IDE. Here’s a peek behind the curtain.

By Simon Bisson

Sep 17, 2026 8 mins

Development Tools Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET

Running AI agents in sandboxes with Microsoft Execution Containers

Microsoft’s open-source sandbox for running untrusted code on Windows, Linux, and macOS has evolved into a cross-platform, policy-based execution layer for agents.

By Simon Bisson

Sep 3, 2026 8 mins

Application Security Development Tools Generative AI

Introducing G#: A Go-like language for .NET

The more you drill down into the language structure of G#, the more you can see it as a hybrid of the .NET approach and Go. That makes it a very flexible tool.

By Simon Bisson

Aug 20, 2026 8 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET Programming Languages

Microsoft Web IQ: Ground your AI agents with up-to-date web data

Agents need fast, fresh, real-world data to stay grounded and avoid errors. Microsoft’s new grounding service helps solve this problem.

By Simon Bisson

Aug 6, 2026 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Management Generative AI

WSL container: A quiet revolution for Windows development

What if you could use Linux code inside your Windows applications without changing it? Now you can.

By Simon Bisson

Jul 23, 2026 8 mins

Cloud-Native Development Tools Kubernetes and Containers

Revving up Microsoft’s 10x faster TypeScript 7

Build type-safe JavaScript applications in less time with Microsoft’s native port of TypeScript built with Go.

By Simon Bisson

Jul 9, 2026 8 mins

JavaScript Programming Languages TypeScript

Making Windows a developer platform, again

Microsoft is delivering tools to quickly configure Windows PCs as workstations for Windows and Linux development.

By Simon Bisson

Jun 25, 2026 8 mins

Development Tools Software Development

Build an agent? Sell an agent

Microsoft Marketplace is becoming a useful resource for AI application developers, offering tools to build agents, models to power them, and a way to monetize them.

By Simon Bisson

Jun 11, 2026 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

Microsoft’s open-source toolkit for controlling out-of-control AI agents

The Agent Governance Toolkit brings runtime policy enforcement to autonomous agents, targeting the OWASP top 10 agent risks.

By Simon Bisson

May 28, 2026 8 mins

Application Security Development Tools Generative AI

A better way to work with SQL Server

It’s time to switch to a new development tool for SQL Server and Azure SQL. Here’s how to get started with the MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code.

By Simon Bisson

May 14, 2026 8 mins

Microsoft Azure Microsoft SQL Server Relational Databases

Harness teams of coding agents with Squad

How do we fix code fast when the bug reports arrive faster? Multi-agent orchestration tools like Squad may be the answer.

By Simon Bisson

Apr 30, 2026 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

Ease into Azure Kubernetes Application Network

Microsoft has simplified service mesh scaling and management with an ambient-based service network for AKS. Here’s how to get started.

By Simon Bisson

Apr 16, 2026 9 mins

Cloud-Native Kubernetes Microsoft Azure

Using Azure Copilot for migration and modernization

A new migration agent in Azure Copilot guides you through the process of moving applications to Azure, while drawing on GitHub Copilot agents to update them.

By Simon Bisson

Mar 31, 2026 7 mins

Development Tools IaaS Microsoft Azure