The Tech Radar - Issue #09 (October 2025)

By Martin Moyér November 1, 2025
The Tech Radar - Issue #09 (October 2025)

Microsoft announced the launch of Sora 2 in Azure AI Foundry, enhancing AI application capabilities. They also introduced new security features in Microsoft 365 Copilot for improved app development.

AWS unveiled Amazon Quick Suite, a new tool for automating tasks, and launched serverless deployment for Amazon SageMaker Canvas models.

Google introduced Nano Banana for AI image editing in Search and enhanced capabilities in Vertex AI Training for large-scale projects.

OpenAI expanded Stargate to Michigan and introduced Aardvark, an AI-powered security researcher.

Salesforce launched Agentforce Commerce innovations and introduced SCUBA, a new AI evaluation benchmark.

SAP was recognized as a leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP Finance and launched an AI-enabled invoice assistant for Cirque du Soleil.

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Updates on Azure OpenAI Service, Azure AI Machine Learning, Azure AI Foundry, Azure Cognitive Services, the Copilot ecosystem, agentic AI, and more

Building the future together: Microsoft and NVIDIA announce AI advancements at GTC DC

Microsoft and NVIDIA are deepening our partnership to power the next wave of AI industrial innovation. For years, our companies have helped fuel the AI revolution, bringing the world’s most advanced supercomputing to the cloud, enabling breakthrough frontier models, and making AI more accessible to organizations everywhere. Today, we’re building on that foundation with new advancements that deliver greater performance, capability, and flexibility.

Oct 28, 2025 Read more

The Signals Loop: Fine-tuning for world-class AI apps and agents

In the early days of the AI shift, AI applications were largely built as thin layers on top of off-the-shelf foundation models. But as developers began tackling more complex use cases, they quickly encountered the limitations of simply using RAG on top of off-the-shelf models. While this approach offered a fast path to production, it often fell short in delivering the accuracy, reliability, efficiency, and engagement needed for more sophisticated use cases. However, this dynamic is shifting.

Oct 21, 2025 Read more

Sora 2 now available in Azure AI Foundry

Turning imagination into reality has never been more instantaneous—and powerful—as it is today, with the launch of OpenAI’s Sora 2: Now in public preview in Azure AI Foundry . Azure AI Foundry is the developer destination built for creators, from startups to global businesses. The platform now offers a curated catalog of generative media models, including OpenAI’s Sora, GPT-image-1 and GPT-image-1-mini, Black Forest Lab’s Flux 1.1 and Kontext Pro, and more.

Oct 15, 2025 Read more

Oracle Database@Azure offers new features, regions, and programs to unlock data and AI innovation

Together, Microsoft and Oracle are delivering the most comprehensive, enterprise‑ready platform for organizations migrating their Oracle solutions to the public cloud—especially those aiming to empower IT professionals and developers to streamline AI adoption and enhance employee productivity. Oracle Database@Azure was the first offering of its kind in the market and today has the broadest regional availability, new ways to unify your data in Microsoft Fabric , deeper security integrations with.

Oct 14, 2025 Read more

Accelerating open-source infrastructure development for frontier AI at scale

In the transition from building computing infrastructure for cloud scale to building cloud and AI infrastructure for frontier scale, the world of computing has experienced tectonic shifts in innovation. Throughout this journey, Microsoft has shared its learnings and best practices, optimizing our cloud infrastructure stack in cross-industry forums such as the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Foundation.

Oct 14, 2025 Read more

FYAI: Why developers will lead AI transformation across the enterprise

Developers are leading AI adoption—and driving transformation across every industry. From writing code to managing applications, they’re using copilots and agents to accelerate delivery, reduce manual effort, and build with greater confidence. Just as they led automation, developers are now reshaping customer experiences and streamlining operations to unlock AI’s full potential.

Oct 13, 2025 Read more

How cities build resilient infrastructure with trusted AI

As climate extremes intensify and urban populations grow, cities face a pivotal challenge: building infrastructure that is resilient to shocks, sustainable to operate, and realistic for agencies to maintain over time. AI has emerged as a transformative force in this effort, letting city leaders predict risks, optimize resources, and make smarter decisions that protect communities and the environment.

Oct 28, 2025 Read more

Unleash your creativity at scale: Azure AI Foundry’s multimodal revolution

Imagine a platform where every developer—whether you’re building for a startup or a global enterprise—can unlock the full spectrum of AI: text, images, audio, and video. This OpenAI DevDay, Azure AI Foundry is making that vision real. With today’s launch of OpenAI GPT-image-1-mini, GPT-realtime-mini, and GPT-audio-mini, plus major safety upgrades to GPT-5, you now have the ultimate toolkit to create, experiment, and scale multimodal solutions—faster and more affordably than ever before.

Oct 6, 2025 Read more

Introducing Microsoft Agent Framework

Today we’re announcing new capabilities in Azure AI Foundry that make it easier for developers to build, observe, and govern multi-agent systems, while helping organizations close the trust gap in AI. As agentic AI adoption accelerates— eight in ten enterprises now use some form of agent-based AI , according to PwC 1 —the complexity of managing these systems is increasing. Developers face fragmented tooling, and organizations struggle to ensure agents behave responsibly.

Oct 1, 2025 Read more

Microsoft 365 Copilot now enables you to build apps and workflows

This week, we’re bringing AI-powered building to employees across the organization, with new agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot customers in the Frontier program : App Builder and Workflows . Using these agents and Copilot Studio, Copilot now enables employees to turn ideas into impact by creating apps, workflows, and agents—just as easily as having a conversation. Describe what you need in natural language, and Copilot helps you build it.

Oct 28, 2025 Read more

Security

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Security updates, identity protection, compliance tools, and threat intelligence, including Microsoft Defender, Sentinel, Security Copilot, Entra and more.

The 5 generative AI security threats you need to know about detailed in new e-book

Generative AI is reshaping the way security teams operate—accelerating threat detection, automating workflows, and enabling scale. But as defenders embrace AI to strengthen their posture, cyberattackers are doing the same to evolve faster than traditional defenses can adapt. Microsoft’s 2025 Digital Threats Report revealed that cyberattackers like Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea have more than doubled their use of AI to mount cyberattacks and spread disinformation.

Oct 30, 2025 Read more

Harden your identity defense with improved protection, deeper correlation, and richer context

In today’s digital-first enterprise, identities have become the new corporate security perimeter. Hybrid work and cloud-first strategies have dissolved traditional network boundaries and dramatically increased the complexity of identity fabrics. Security teams are left managing a constellation of users, infrastructure, and tools scattered across hybrid environments or even multivendor ecosystems.

Oct 23, 2025 Read more

The CISO imperative: Building resilience in an era of accelerated cyberthreats

The latest Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2025 paints a vivid picture of a cyberthreat landscape in flux. The surge in financially motivated cyberattacks and the persistent risk of nation-state actors demand urgent attention. But for those of us in the Office of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), the real challenge and opportunity lie in how organizations respond, adapt, and build resilience for what comes next.

Oct 22, 2025 Read more

The new Microsoft Security Store unites partners and innovation

On September 30, 2025, Microsoft announced a bold new vision for security: a unified, AI-powered platform designed to help organizations defend against today’s most sophisticated cyberthreats. But an equally important story—one that’s just beginning to unfold—is how the Microsoft Security Store is bringing this vision to life through a vibrant ecosystem of partners, developers, and innovators—all contributing together to deliver more value and security to our customers.

Oct 21, 2025 Read more

Inside the attack chain: Threat activity targeting Azure Blob Storage

Azure Blob Storage , like any object data service, is a high-value target for threat actors due to its critical role in storing and managing massive amounts of unstructured data at scale across diverse workloads. Organizations of all sizes use Blob Storage to support key workloads—such as AI, high performance computing (HPC), analytics, media, enterprise backup, and IoT data ingestion—making it a potential vector for attacks that can impact everything from data integrity to business continuity.

Oct 20, 2025 Read more

Microsoft named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SIEM

We’re honored to share that Microsoft has again been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) . 1 We believe this recognition reinforces Microsoft Sentinel ‘s position as an industry-leading, cloud and AI-powered SIEM—designed to solve SOC challenges head-on and streamline modern security operations.

Oct 16, 2025 Read more

Extortion and ransomware drive over half of cyberattacks

In 80% of the cyber incidents Microsoft’s security teams investigated last year, attackers sought to steal data—a trend driven more by financial gain than intelligence gathering. According to the latest Microsoft Digital Defense Report, written with our Chief Information Security Officer Igor Tsyganskiy, over half of cyberattacks with known motives were driven by extortion or ransomware.

Oct 16, 2025 Read more

The importance of hardening customer support tools against cyberattacks

The Deputy CISO blog series is where Microsoft Deputy Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) share their thoughts on what is most important in their respective domains. In this series, you will get practical advice, tactics to start (and stop) deploying, forward-looking commentary on where the industry is going, and more. In this article, Raji Dani, Vice President and Deputy CISO for Microsoft business functions, finance, and marketing at Microsoft dives into the importance of securing...

Oct 15, 2025 Read more

Microsoft raises the bar: A smarter way to measure AI for cybersecurity

ExCyTIn-Bench is Microsoft’s newest open-source benchmarking tool designed to evaluate how well AI systems perform real-world cybersecurity investigations. 1 It helps business leaders assess language models by simulating realistic cyberthreat scenarios and providing clear, actionable insights into how those tools reason through complex problems. In contrast to previous benchmarks that concentrated on threat intelligence trivia or static knowledge, this benchmark evaluates AI agents in...

Oct 14, 2025 Read more

Building a lasting security culture at Microsoft

At Microsoft, building a lasting security culture is more than a strategic priority—it is a call to action. Security begins and ends with people, which is why every employee plays a critical role in protecting both Microsoft and our customers. When secure practices are woven into how we think, work, and collaborate, individual actions come together to form a unified, proactive, and resilient defense.

Oct 13, 2025 Read more

Microsoft 365

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Updates on Microsoft 365, Copilot & Microsoft 365 Copilot, Teams, Viva, and other productivity and collaboration tools

Introducing Teams Mode for Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft 365 Copilot is the AI built for work - and work rarely happens alone, instead our best work often results from collaboration. Today we’re introducing Teams Mode for Microsoft 365 Copilot : a simple, secure way to bring your co-workers into your Copilot conversations, turning individual AI chats into group AI chats in Microsoft Teams. Now, the same Copilot you use for individual work supports group work as well.

Oct 27, 2025 Read more

Office Agent – “Taste driven” multi-agent system for Microsoft 365 Copilot

Today we’re introducing Office Agent , a multi-agent system that builds upon an open-source stack, Anthropic's Claude model, and a new taste-driven development ( TDD ) paradigm to deliver p olished PowerPoint presentations , ready-to-use Word documents, and soon Excel spreadsheets. The system orchestrates specialized agents that can plan, draft, and refine Office artifacts end-to-end.

Oct 1, 2025 Read more

Employees can bring Copilot from their personal Microsoft 365 plans to work - what it means for IT

Whether IT-sanctioned or in the shadows, AI has become mainstream in knowledge work. Employees everywhere are bringing their own AI assistants – and that can be a good thing, unless the tools they bring aren’t vetted or otherwise put your information and organization at risk. Today, we made some exciting announcements for Microsoft 365 Personal, Family and the new Premium plans.

Oct 1, 2025 Read more

Getting the best out of threads in Microsoft Teams channels

Teams continues to evolve to help your team work faster, simpler, smarter. Now threads in channels are generally available. It combines the simplicity of chat-like conversations with the structure, durability, and manageability of channels—helping you stay on top of the information that matters most without getting overwhelmed. We know fast moving conversations can make it easy to fall behind. That’s why as part of the threads rollout, we are introducing thread summarization with Copilot .

Oct 8, 2025 Read more

Chapter 4: Beyond Tools - 2025 Agentic Teaming & Trust Research Report

Not only are team dynamics changing with the introduction of agentic AI, but our mental models for how we perceive agents are evolving as well. Some AI agents are progressing from simple assistants to direct team collaborators. 82% of leaders believe that AI agents will be viewed as valued contributors and teammates over the next year 1 . These teammates can help teams work together more effectively, such as by democratizing expertise and reducing functional boundaries that may have impeded...

Oct 9, 2025 Read more

Office 2016/2019 have reached end of support – here's what to do now

Today, October 14, 2025 , support ends for all Office 2016 and 2019 suites, standalone apps, and servers. This includes: Office suites Office 2016 , Office 2019 Office applications Access 2016 , Access 2019 , Excel 2016 , Excel 2019 , OneNote 2016 , Outlook 2016 , Outlook 2019 , PowerPoint 2016 , PowerPoint 2019 , Project 2016 , Project 2019 , Publisher 2016 , Publisher 2019 , Skype for Business 2016 , Skype for Business 2019 , Visio 2016 , Visio 2019 , Word 2016 , Word 2019 Productivity...

Oct 14, 2025 Read more

What’s new in Copilot Studio: September 2025

In the September 2025 edition of our monthly roundup, we’re recapping the most exciting new features recently released in Microsoft Copilot Studio.

Oct 15, 2025 Read more

MODIS October 2025: Transforming Organizational Data Ingestion in Microsoft 365 & Microsoft Viva

Organizational Data in Microsoft 365 is a robust platform that streamlines how admins and data custodians bring HR data into Microsoft 365, Copilot, and Viva. With a single, secure ingestion point, Organizational Data in Microsoft 365 validates data integrity, enables access to shared data services, and governs data usage — empowering organizations to unlock business-critical scenarios with confidence.

Oct 28, 2025 Read more

Deprecation of the previewImageUrl property for Insights items that reference file attachments

We’re deprecating the previewImageUrl property in the resourceVisualization complex type for Insights items where the referenced resource is a file attachment ( resourceReference.type = fileAttachment ). This affects responses from the Insights List shared and Insights List used APIs when the underlying resource is an email attachment. What’s changing and why The previewImageUrl property is no longer returned for file attachment items.

Oct 29, 2025 Read more

Migrating from IDCRL authentication to modern authentication in SharePoint

In the next few months, Microsoft will be removing the legacy authentication protocol known as IDCRL (Identity Client Run Time Library) in SharePoint and force calls to rely on OpenID connect and OAuth Protocols. Since 2018, regular sign-in for services such as OneDrive and SharePoint has always relied on the more secure OpenID Connect and OAuth protocols; going forward we will enforce this for all authentical calls.

Oct 29, 2025 Read more

Dev Proxy v1.3 with exporting to HAR, LLM usage tracking, and enhanced permissions analysis

We’re thrilled to announce the release of Dev Proxy v1.3.0! This update introduces two powerful new plugins: HAR file generation for universal debugging and LLM usage tracking for cost optimization, along with enhanced permissions analysis and improved OpenAPI spec generation for complex testing scenarios. In this version: New HarGeneratorPlugin for HTTP Archive file generation New OpenAIUsageDebuggingPlugin for language model usage tracking Enhanced minimal permissions plugins with...

Oct 30, 2025 Read more

SharePoint Framework (SPFx) roadmap update – October 2025

We continue to be humbled by the incredible momentum of SharePoint Framework (SPFx) and the growth it is driving with our customers and partners. There are tens of millions of users across the world using custom SPFx solutions on a daily basis in Microsoft 365 – built by our customers and partners. In September 2025 we started a new monthly blog post series aimed at providing more visibility on the SharePoint Framework plans.

Oct 30, 2025 Read more

Research Drop: Amplifying Clarity and Impact of AI Agents by Aligning on Desired Outcomes

Research Drop in Brief: Employees on teams that align on both activities and outcomes they want to achieve with AI agents are 1.9x as likely to be high-frequency agentic AI users compared to teams focused only on activities. Outcome-aligned teams report greater up to 22 percentage-points higher clarity when using multiple agents, such as clearer use cases and deeper understanding of capabilities.

Oct 30, 2025 Read more

Introducing Researcher with Computer Use in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Today we’re excited to announce Researcher with Computer Use in Microsoft 365 Copilot—a major leap toward more autonomous AI that works for you. Now with Computer Use, Researcher goes beyond reasoning and researching. It can now act on your behalf using a secure virtual computer to navigate public, gated, and interactive web content. This powerful extension of Researcher—combined with the unique ability to connect to your work data—unlocks smarter research, deeper insights, and more...

Oct 30, 2025 Read more

What’s New in Microsoft Teams | October 2025

Before we get to this month’s new Teams features, I’m thrilled to share that Microsoft has been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Unified Communications as a Service for the 7th year in a row. We are honored to again be positioned highest for ability to execute and furthest for completeness of vision in the evaluation’s axes.

Oct 30, 2025 Read more

Dynamics 365 & Power Platform

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Updates on Dynamics 365 and Power Platform, including Project Operations, Supply Chain Management, and other business applications

Use session restore for seamless continuity in Customer Service

As customer service representatives juggle multiple cases, tabs, and applications throughout their day, interruptions—whether from browser crashes, accidental closures, or system reboots—can be costly. That’s why session restore , also known as app session restore , is a game-changer in Dynamics 365 Copilot Service workspace (CSw). This feature ensures service reps can pick up exactly where they left off, minimizing disruption and maximizing productivity.

Oct 27, 2025 Read more

What’s Next: Why Project Online Customers Should Evaluate Microsoft Dynamics 365 Project Operations

Across industries, organizations are transforming how they deliver value. From engineering to IT services to internal PMOs, leaders are rethinking their operating models to become more service-centric —where success depends on how efficiently projects are delivered, how accurately time is tracked, and how transparently work connects to financial outcomes. For these organizations, projects are not side activities—they are the business.

Oct 23, 2025 Read more

Try rich messaging for live chat and WhatsApp in Contact Center

In today’s fast-paced digital world, customers expect more than just plain text when interacting with businesses. Traditional text-based conversations can be inefficient. This is especially true when customers need to exchange detailed information, explore options, or make quick decisions. That’s where rich messaging comes in. Rich messaging introduces interactive elements, such as forms, carousels, and suggested replies, directly within the conversation.

Oct 21, 2025 Read more

From systems of record to systems of action: Dynamics 365, agentic business applications for the frontier

Business leaders are facing a new reality. AI and agents are transforming traditional systems of record into systems of action, becoming applications that not only store data but use it to drive decisions and outcomes. In this new model, the user experience becomes almost invisible. What matters most is the foundation: structured data, clear governance, and business logic that allows agents to operate effectively. These are agentic business applications.

Oct 21, 2025 Read more

Elevating Sales Performance with Microsoft’s Sales Research Agent: How Rigorous Evaluation Unlocks Trust and Transformation

In today’s hyper-competitive business landscape, sales leaders face a relentless challenge: how to drive growth, outpace competitors, and make smarter decisions faster in a resource constrained environment. Thankfully, the promise of AI in sales is no longer theoretical. With the advent of agentic solutions embedded in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales, including the Sales Research Agent , organizations are witnessing a transformation in how business decisions are made, and teams are empowered.

Oct 21, 2025 Read more

Sales Research Agent & Sales Research Bench

Raising the bar for Enterprise AI The Sales Research Agent in Dynamics 365 Sales automatically connects to live CRM data and can connect to additional data stored elsewhere, such as budgets and targets. It reasons over complex, customized schemas with deep domain expertise , and presents novel, decision-ready insights through text-based narratives and rich data visualizations tailored to the business question at hand.

Oct 21, 2025 Read more

Empowering Finance with an AI Assistant in Microsoft 365 Copilot

The Finance solution in Microsoft 365 Copilot is now generally available Finance plays a critical role in helping organizations make confident, data-driven decisions. Yet despite decades of automation, much of finance work still happens in spreadsheets and emails. Teams spend hours reconciling data from multiple systems, investigating variances, or fielding ad-hoc questions about budgets, spend, or invoices. The result is slower insight, longer close cycles, and less time for strategic analysis.

Oct 20, 2025 Read more

Use custom productivity tools in Dynamics 365 Customer Service

As customer service teams strive to deliver faster, more personalized support, the need for tailored productivity enhancements has never been greater. With the introduction of custom productivity tools in Dynamics 365 Copilot Service Workspace (CSw), organizations can now equip customer service representatives with purpose-built utilities that streamline workflows, reduce clicks, and eliminate context switching.

Oct 17, 2025 Read more

Announcing sensitive data redaction for voice AI agents

We are excited to introduce sensitive data redaction in Dynamics 365 Contact Center, a major advancement in privacy-first AI for customer service. This new capability empowers organizations to deliver intelligent voice experiences while ensuring that customers’ sensitive information remains protected throughout the interaction. This feature is designed specifically for human interaction with voice AI agents, allowing voice AI agent makers to flag variables as sensitive in Microsoft Copilot...

Oct 15, 2025 Read more

Integrate Field Service bookings with Outlook and Teams, now Generally Available.

Frontline technicians juggle more than just work orders—they balance customer visits, team meetings, and personal commitments. Until now, keeping these schedules aligned often meant switching back and forth between apps. With Release Wave 2 2025, we’re excited to announce the General Availability (GA) of Exchange Integration for Dynamics 365 Field Service .

Oct 13, 2025 Read more

Strengthen Your Power Pages Security with CodeQL code scan

As web applications have become central to business operations, securing every line of custom code is more critical than ever. With the introduction of CodeQL scan in Power Pages toolset, we are empowering developers with static code analysis directly within their development workflow. Why CodeQL Security vulnerabilities can hide in plain sight especially in custom HTML and JavaScript that power dynamic site experiences.

Oct 24, 2025 Read more

Seamlessly Open VS Code Desktop from Power Pages VS Code for the Web with auto-download site code

Professional developers building on Power Pages often rely on the productivity and performance of Power Pages Visual Studio Code for the Web . When they need advanced capabilities such as using GitHub Copilot, editing configuration file, writing unit/integration tests, or using extensions for richer development workflows, they switch to VS Code Desktop.

Oct 13, 2025 Read more

Announcing Major Updates to Dataverse + Fabric Integration

We’re committed to making data integration between Microsoft Dataverse and Microsoft Fabric faster, simpler, and more secure. These new capabilities address the most common customer pain points—reducing costs, improving performance, and eliminating credential complexity—while enabling near real-time insights for better decision-making. Manage Tables: Freedom and Cost Savings for Administrators One of the top asks from our customers has been the ability to select only the tables you need when...

Oct 10, 2025 Read more

Explore new AI innovation for Dynamics 365, Microsoft Power Platform, and Copilot Studio at the Business Applications Launch Event

As innovation speeds up, staying agile is essential. To keep your business ahead of the curve with innovation across Microsoft Dynamics 365 , Microsoft Power Platform , and Copilot Studio , join us for the Business Applications Launch Event, debuting live on the Dynamics 365 YouTube channel on Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 9 AM Pacific Daylight Time. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get notified when the update is live.

Oct 9, 2025 Read more

Protecting Your Organization with the Phishing Detection Security Agent for Power Pages

Overview Power Pages continues to enhance its default security framework and empowers users to confidently use the platform. As organizations increasingly rely on Power Pages for their external-facing portals, it’s essential to stay ahead of malicious actors who may attempt to exploit these sites for phishing. The Phishing Detection Security Agent for Power Pages proactively scans and reviews public sites to identify suspicious activity.

Oct 7, 2025 Read more

Azure

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Updates on Azure cloud services, including Azure compute, networking, storage and hybrid solutions, Arc, Kubernetes, and more

Microsoft Azure delivers the first large scale cluster with NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 for OpenAI workloads

Microsoft delivers the first at-scale production cluster with more than 4,600 NVIDIA GB300 NVL72, featuring NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs connected through the next-generation NVIDIA InfiniBand network . This cluster is the first of many, as we scale to hundreds of thousands of Blackwell Ultra GPUs deployed across Microsoft’s AI datacenters globally, reflecting our continued commitment to redefining AI infrastructure and collaboration with NVIDIA.

Oct 9, 2025 Read more

Microsoft’s commitment to supporting cloud infrastructure demand in Asia

Microsoft supports cloud infrastructure demand in Asia As Asia surges ahead in digital transformation, Microsoft is committed to expanding its cloud infrastructure to match the continent’s demand. In 2025, Microsoft launched new Azure datacenter regions in Malaysia and Indonesia, and is set to expand further with new datacenter regions launching in India and Taiwan in 2026. Microsoft is also announcing our intent to deliver a second datacenter region in Malaysia, called Southeast Asia 3.

Oct 9, 2025 Read more

From Lab to Live: A Blueprint for a Voice-Powered AI Sales Coach

Until recently, building real-time voice AI for production was challenging. Developers faced hurdles such as managing audio streams and ensuring low-latency performance. That landscape is changing. The general availability of the Azure Voice Live API marks a turning point, providing a unified abstraction layer that simplifies the development of real-time voice and avatar experiences.

Oct 3, 2025 Read more

How to update community health files with AI

Maintaining your project’s community health files shouldn’t get in the way of writing code. GitHub Copilot can help you update and enhance your documentation, so you can stay focused on what really matters: working on the projects that excite you most. In this blog, we’ll touch on some of the most common community health files (focusing on README , contributor guides, and licenses) and why they’re so important for maintainers, along with actionable steps you can take to add them to your...

Oct 21, 2025 Read more

OneLake APIs: Bring your apps and build new ones with familiar Blob and ADLS APIs

OneLake is the unified data lake for Microsoft Fabric, designed to simplify data management and accelerate analytics across your organization. The best part is, OneLake speaks the same language your applications already do. With support for the ubiquitous Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) or Blob Storage APIs, OneLake makes it easy to bring your existing applications and …

Oct 22, 2025 Read more

Securely Accessing External and On-Premises Data Sources with Fabric Data Engineering Workloads

Managed Private Endpoints support for connecting to Private Link Services is now available in Microsoft Fabric (Public REST APIs). This has been one of the top requests from our customers and the community: the ability to securely connect Fabric Spark compute to on-premises and network-isolated data sources using the option to allowlist Fully Qualified Domain …

Oct 22, 2025 Read more

Introducing Planning in Visual Studio (Public Preview)

Quick prompts are great for small fixes, but they fall short on big projects. You end up rewriting instructions, tweaking them constantly, and hoping the model stays on track. It gives Copilot a visible, structured path to follow, one that updates as it works and keeps you in control at every step. In Agent Mode, Copilot can now create plans that research your codebase, break down big tasks, and run them step by step while iterating along the way.

Oct 22, 2025 Read more

Introducing Agent HQ: Any agent, any way you work

The current AI landscape presents a challenge we’re all too familiar with: incredible power fragmented across different tools and interfaces. At GitHub, we’ve always worked to solve these kinds of systemic challenges—by making Git accessible, code review systematic with pull requests, and automating deployment with Actions. With 180 million developers, GitHub is growing at its fastest rate ever —a new developer joining every second.

Oct 28, 2025 Read more

Fully managed cloud-to-cloud transfers with Azure Storage Mover

In today’s modern world, cloud strategies are evolving rapidly. Many organizations are embracing multicloud environments, while others are looking to consolidate and migrate workloads to a single trusted platform. At Microsoft, we recognize that the need for secure, reliable, and efficient data movement across platforms is critical. Today, we are announcing the General Availability of cloud-to-cloud migration from AWS S3 to Azure Blob Storage using Azure Storage Mover.

Oct 23, 2025 Read more

Fabric October 2025 Feature Summary

This month’s update delivers key advancements across Microsoft Fabric, including enhanced security with Outbound Access Protection and Workspace-Level Private Link, smarter data engineering features like Adaptive Target File Size, and new integrations such as Data Agent in Lakehouse. Together, these improvements streamline workflows and strengthen data governance for users. Contents Events & Announcements Fabric Data …

Oct 29, 2025 Read more

Simplifying Data Ingestion with Copy job – More File Formats with Enhancements

Copy job is the go-to solution in Microsoft Fabric Data Factory for simplified data movement, whether you’re moving data across clouds, from on-premises systems, or between services. With native support for multiple delivery styles, including bulk copy, incremental copy, and change data capture (CDC) replication, Copy job offers the flexibility to handle a wide range …

Oct 29, 2025 Read more

On-premises data gateway October 2025 release

Here is the October 2025 release of the on-premises data gateway (version 3000.290).

Oct 30, 2025 Read more

Visual Studio October Update – new models, memories, planning, and more

The October 2025 update for Visual Studio 2022 (v17.14) is now available. In this month, we are bringing you improvements to model choices, agentic flows, and chat thread management. New Models We now have Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Claude Haiku 4.5 available in the chat window. This means the latest innovations for driving your agentic workflows is right at your fingertips.

Oct 30, 2025 Read more

GitHub Universe 2025: Where developer innovation took center stage

At GitHub Universe 2025, the theme was clear: the ability to see, steer, and build across agents will bring the greatest impact and GitHub is the platform that’s transforming and empowering how developers and agents work together. As we heard from Kyle Daigle, Chief Operating Officer, GitHub, on stage this week, it is “the new era of collaboration.” Agents have become an integral part of software development already, taking on manual, repetitive coding tasks so developers can focus on complex...

Oct 30, 2025 Read more

Measuring what matters: How offline evaluation of GitHub MCP Server works

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a simple, common way for AI models (LLMs) to talk to APIs and data. Think of it like a universal plug: if both sides support MCP, they can connect and work together. An MCP server is any service or app that “speaks MCP” and offers tools the model can use, publishing a list of tools, what each tool does, and what inputs (parameters) each tool needs. The GitHub MCP Server is the foundation for many GitHub Copilot workflows, both inside and outside of GitHub.

Oct 30, 2025 Read more

Industry Solutions & Innovation

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Updates and news on research, skilling, as well as tailored solutions and innovations for industries including healthcare, manufacturing, financial services, and more

Vuln.AI: Our AI-powered leap into vulnerability management at Microsoft

In today’s hyperconnected enterprise landscape, vulnerability management is no longer a back-office function—it’s a frontline defense. With thousands of devices from a multitude of vendors, and a relentless stream of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs), here at Microsoft we faced a challenge familiar to every IT decision maker: how to scale vulnerability response without scaling cost, complexity, or risk.

Oct 16, 2025 Read more

Keeping our in-house optical network safe with a Zero Trust mentality

When it comes to corporate connectivity at Microsoft, a minute of lost connection can lead to catastrophic disruptions for our product teams, sleepless nights for our network engineers, and millions of dollars of lost value for the company. That’s why we built our own optical network at our headquarters in Washington state, and that’s why we’re building similar networks at other regional campuses around the United States and the rest of the world. Engage with our experts!

Oct 16, 2025 Read more

Enterprise AI maturity in five steps: Our guide for IT leaders

Charting a course through today’s digital landscape means navigating the transformative potential of AI—a technology redefining how organizations innovate and adapt. For leaders seeking to turn the promise of AI into action, the journey begins with clarity of purpose and a framework for progress. At Microsoft Digital, the company’s IT organization, we’ve been on the front lines of this AI-powered revolution, translating vision into reality and reimagining what’s possible for the enterprise.

Oct 9, 2025 Read more

Enabling meaningful AI adoption at Microsoft with a Microsoft 365 Copilot Expo

As our employees incorporate AI into their day-to-day routines, new ways of working are emerging at Microsoft. Engage with our experts! Customers or Microsoft account team representatives from Fortune 500 companies are welcome to request a virtual engagement on this topic with experts from our Microsoft Digital team. People are using Microsoft 365 Copilot as their personal AI assistant and employing agents to power new workflows.

Oct 9, 2025 Read more

‘Putting your meetings in your earbuds’: How we now catch up on missed meetings with Audio Recap podcasts

Engage with our experts! Customers or Microsoft account team representatives from Fortune 500 companies are welcome to request a virtual engagement on this topic with experts from our Microsoft Digital team. Here at Microsoft, we’re putting our meetings into our earbuds. That’s the best way to think about the new Audio Recap feature in Microsoft Teams.

Oct 9, 2025 Read more

Transforming security and compliance at Microsoft with Windows Hotpatch

Security updates are essential, and every security admin knows that when it comes to applying these updates, faster is better to mitigate the risk. However, security updates have always come with a catch: Windows needs to reboot to apply them. Reboots mean interrupted productivity and downtime for users. For us at Microsoft Digital, Microsoft’s internal IT organization, Windows Hotpatch changes the equation. It’s a new way to deliver critical Windows updates without rebooting.

Oct 2, 2025 Read more

Making transportation seamless and efficient with the power of data and AI at Microsoft

It’s full speed ahead for the future of transportation at Microsoft. Five years ago, as a global pandemic shut down offices and commuting ground to a halt, Microsoft took the opportunity to overhaul the technology underpinning its transportation services. The result was a more modernized and integrated system that employees enjoyed as they resumed work at our Puget Sound-based global headquarters. “Figuring out their commute should not be a pain point for employees.

Oct 2, 2025 Read more

Building human-centric security skills for AI

AI is reshaping the workplace, and the organizations thriving in this new era know it takes more than just cutting-edge tech to succeed. A new kind of company is emerging—the so-called Frontier Firm . These organizations are building their business models around on-demand intelligence and hybrid human-AI collaboration. They understand that no matter how advanced technology is, it’s people—armed with the right skills, judgment, and foresight—who make the difference.

Oct 30, 2025 Read more

New Certification for architects of agentic AI business solutions

We’re looking for architects of agentic AI business solutions to take our new beta exam. Do you have experience envisioning and implementing AI-driven architecture strategies, integrating agents into business solutions, and guiding organizations toward AI adoption? Are you skilled at designing, prototyping, and securing scalable AI solutions, analyzing technical requirements, and leading the end-to-end delivery of AI-centric solutions that align with business goals?

Oct 22, 2025 Read more

Q1 Recap: What’s new in Microsoft Security skilling

As we wrap up an exciting first quarter, we’re thrilled to share some of the latest updates, resources, and learning opportunities in the world of Microsoft Security. Whether you’re a developer, IT admin, or security professional, there is something here for everyone looking to level up their skills and stay ahead in our ever-evolving landscape. Microsoft Sentinel data lake is now live!

Oct 14, 2025 Read more

How cities build resilient infrastructure with trusted AI

As climate extremes intensify and urban populations grow, cities face a pivotal challenge: building infrastructure that is resilient to shocks, sustainable to operate, and realistic for agencies to maintain over time. AI has emerged as a transformative force in this effort, letting city leaders predict risks, optimize resources, and make smarter decisions that protect communities and the environment.

Oct 28, 2025 Read more

The Frontier Firm in banking: A blueprint for advanced AI innovation

The banking industry is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by unprecedented investment in AI. By 2027, spending on AI across financial services is projected to rise to $97 billion, up from $35 billion in 2023 1 . Banks are racing to innovate, shifting focus from experimentation to strategic deployment, particularly around AI agents—increasingly intelligent, task-oriented systems that will change not only how banks operate but also how they drive top-line growth and margin expansion.

Oct 21, 2025 Read more

Extending AI impact at HLTH 2025: Dragon Copilot scales across care teams, partners, and geographies

Healthcare is undergoing a profound shift from point solutions to platform-powered, teamwide transformation. At HLTH 2025, we’re spotlighting how Microsoft Dragon Copilot , a breakthrough AI clinical assistant that is leveraging the latest innovations in ambient and generative AI, is expanding to support more clinicians and geographies, and unlocking new efficiencies with AI apps and agents so organizations can scale impact faster, safely, and with confidence.

Oct 16, 2025 Read more

From vision to impact: Advancing public finance transformation through AI and ecosystem collaboration

Over the past month, we’ve had the privilege of engaging with global leaders across public finance, customs, and trade at events hosted by the Australian Center for International Trade and Investment (ACITI) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). This month, we’re contributing to a conference by the Intra-European Organisation of Tax Administrations (IOTA).

Oct 14, 2025 Read more

New AI tool helps rural hospitals improve financial incomes

Rural hospitals provide vital healthcare services to isolated communities across the United States; for many people, they’re literally a lifeline. But these institutions face significant challenges—from workforce shortages to financial hardships—that threaten their ability to continue serving their communities. A recent study noted that more than 700 rural hospitals across the United States are currently at risk of closure due to financial hardship.

Oct 7, 2025 Read more
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