The Tech Radar - Issue #11 (December 2025)

By Martin Moyér January 4, 2026
The Tech Radar - Issue #11 (December 2025)

Microsoft has been recognized as a Leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for AI Application Development Platforms and introduced GPT-5.2 in Microsoft 365 Copilot for enhanced enterprise AI. They also announced Azure Storage innovations aimed at improving data management.

AWS launched IAM Policy Autopilot to simplify policy creation and introduced serverless customization in Amazon SageMaker for AI model fine-tuning.

Google made strides with the Gemini Live API on Vertex AI, enhancing real-time interactions, and also introduced advanced governance capabilities for Vertex AI Agent Builder.

OpenAI launched GPT-5.2-Codex, enhancing coding capabilities, and deepened collaborations with various organizations to expand AI adoption.

Salesforce achieved ISO 22301 certification for business continuity and introduced AI-driven tools for project management.

SAP was named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Talent Intelligence and emphasized AI's role in HR service delivery.

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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

Microsoft named a Leader in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI Application Development Platforms

A recognition for AI innovation Microsoft is recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI Application Development Platforms and is positioned furthest for Completeness of Vision . This leadership reflects a long‑term conviction: the next wave of applications is agentic, and real customer impact requires far more than great demos.

Dec 17, 2025 Read more

Azure updates for partners: December 2025

At Microsoft Ignite 2025, we explored what it means for organizations to move into the era of Frontier transformation. This shift is focused on embedding AI across every part of the business to improve decision-making, increase speed, and create new value. Organizations leading in AI make it foundational. They rethink processes and integrate new technologies from the start to improve efficiency.

Dec 16, 2025 Read more

Introducing GPT-5.2 in Microsoft Foundry: The new standard for enterprise AI

The age of AI small talk is over. Enterprise applications demand more than clever chat. They require a reliable, reasoning partner capable of solving the most ambiguous, high-stakes problems, including planning multi-agent workflows and delivering auditable code. Azure is the foundation for solving these challenges. Today, OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 is announced as generally available in Microsoft Foundry , introducing a new frontier model series purposefully built to meet the needs of enterprise...

Dec 11, 2025 Read more

Actioning agentic AI: 5 ways to build with news from Microsoft Ignite 2025

Energy at Microsoft Ignite was electric. Over 20,000 attendees gathered in San Francisco, with 200,000 digitally joining us to explore the future of cloud and AI . What continues to inspire me most are the responses online and the conversations happening in our technical communities. It’s how quickly you’re turning these announcements into action and building solutions for billions of people, which will ultimately shape our future.

Dec 10, 2025 Read more

Microsoft’s commitment to supporting cloud infrastructure demand in the United States

Today, we are sharing progress on our infrastructure expansions across the United States that are supporting the tremendous growth in customer demand for cloud and AI services. Recently we announced Fairwater sites in Wisconsin and Atlanta , and now we are expanding with the launch of our East US 3 region in the Greater Atlanta Metro area in early 2027, and the expansion of five existing datacenter regions across the United States.

Dec 9, 2025 Read more

Introducing Mistral Large 3 in Microsoft Foundry: Open, capable, and ready for production workloads

Enterprises today are embracing open-weight models for their transparency, flexibility, and ability to run across a broad range of deployment architectures. As the number of open models grows, the bar for reliability, instruction-following quality, multimodal reasoning, and long-context performance continues to rise. Today, we’re excited to announce that Mistral Large 3 is now available in Azure, bringing one of the strongest open-weight, Apache-licensed frontier models to the Microsoft Cloud.

Dec 2, 2025 Read more

A decade of open innovation: Celebrating 10 years of Microsoft and Red Hat partnership

Ten years ago, Microsoft and Red Hat began a partnership grounded in open source and enterprise cloud innovation. This year, we celebrate a decade of collaboration. Our journey together has helped customers accelerate hybrid cloud transformation, empower developers to innovate, and strengthen the open source community to drive modern application innovation​.

Dec 2, 2025 Read more

From Signal magazine: How AI is reshaping the game on and off the court

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Dec 17, 2025 Read more

Azure updates for partners: December 2025

At Microsoft Ignite 2025, we explored what it means for organizations to move into the era of Frontier transformation. This shift is focused on embedding AI across every part of the business to improve decision-making, increase speed, and create new value. Organizations leading in AI make it foundational. They rethink processes and integrate new technologies from the start to improve efficiency.

Dec 16, 2025 Read more

A race against time: Maharashtra police get an AI copilot to fight cybercrime

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Dec 12, 2025 Read more

Available today: GPT-5.2 in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Today we’re excited to bring OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 to Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Copilot Studio . GPT‑5.2 brings together GPT-5.2 Thinking—the best model yet for complex problems and strategic insights, and GPT-5.2 Instant—an efficient model for everyday writing, translation, and skill-building. This model becomes even more powerful when applied to work.

Dec 11, 2025 Read more

Becoming a Frontier Firm: Unlocking the business value of AI

AI is no longer a distant promise—it’s a present-day business imperative. At Microsoft Ignite 2025 , the message was clear: organizations that harness AI effectively are not just improving operations; they’re reshaping how work gets done, how customers are engaged, and how innovation scales. The question today isn’t whether AI can deliver value, but how quickly organizations can scale it across their business.

Dec 11, 2025 Read more

Azure Storage innovations: Unlocking the future of data

Microsoft is redefining what’s possible in the public cloud and driving the next wave of AI-powered transformation for organizations. Whether you’re pushing the boundaries with AI, improving the resilience of mission-critical workloads, or modernizing legacy systems with cloud-native solutions, Azure Storage has a solution for you. Learn more about Azure Storage tools and products At Microsoft Ignite 2025 and KubeCon North America last month, we showcased the latest innovations in Azure...

Dec 11, 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.

New Microsoft e-book: 3 reasons point solutions are holding you back

While patchwork tools slow defenders down and impact visibility into potential cyberthreats, they’re an unfortunate reality for many organizations. As digital risk accelerates and attack surfaces multiply, security leaders are doing their best to stitch together point solutions while trying to avoid blind spots that cyberattackers can exploit. But point solutions can only go so far.

Dec 18, 2025 Read more

Access Fabric: A modern approach to identity and network access

Today, most organizations use multiple identity systems and multiple network access solutions from multiple vendors. This happens, either intentionally or organically, when different areas of a company choose different tools, creating a fragmented environment that leaves weaknesses that cyberattackers are quick to weaponize. Get unified identity and network solutions with Microsoft Entra Simply adding more tools isn’t enough.

Dec 17, 2025 Read more

Defending against the CVE-2025-55182 (React2Shell) vulnerability in React Server Components

CVE-2025-55182 (also referred to as React2Shell and includes CVE-2025-66478, which was merged into it) is a critical pre-authentication remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability affecting React Server Components, Next.js, and related frameworks. With a CVSS score of 10.0, this vulnerability could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable servers through a single malicious HTTP request. Exploitation activity related to this vulnerability was detected as early as December 5, 2025.

Dec 15, 2025 Read more

Microsoft named an overall leader in KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Generative AI Defense

Today, we are proud to share that Microsoft has been recognized as an overall leader in the KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Generative AI Defense (GAD), an independent report from a leading European analyst firm. This recognition reinforces the work we’ve been doing to deliver enterprise-ready Security and Governance capabilities for AI, and reflects our commitment to helping customers secure AI at scale.

Dec 15, 2025 Read more

Imposter for hire: How fake people can gain very real access

In the latest edition of our Cyberattack Series, we dive into a real-world case of fake employees. Cybercriminals are no longer just breaking into networks—they’re gaining access by posing as legitimate employees. This form of cyberattack involves operatives posing as legitimate remote hires, slipping past human resources checks and onboarding processes to gain trusted access.

Dec 11, 2025 Read more

From awareness to action: Building a security-first culture for the agentic AI era

The insights gained from Cybersecurity Awareness Month, right through to Microsoft Ignite 2025 , demonstrate that security remains a top priority for business leaders. It serves as a strategic lever for organizational growth, fosters trust, and facilitates the advancement of AI innovation. The Work Trend Index 2025 indicates that over 80% of leaders are currently utilizing agents or plan to do so within the next 12 to 18 months.

Dec 10, 2025 Read more

Clarity in complexity: New insights for transparent email security

As email threats grow more sophisticated and layered security architectures become more common, organizations need clear, data-driven insights to evaluate how their security solutions perform together. Benchmarking plays a critical role in helping security leaders understand not just individual product efficacy, but how integrated solutions contribute to overall protection.

Dec 10, 2025 Read more

Shai-Hulud 2.0: Guidance for detecting, investigating, and defending against the supply chain attack

The Shai‑Hulud 2.0 supply chain attack represents one of the most significant cloud-native ecosystem compromises observed recently. Attackers maliciously modified hundreds of publicly available packages, targeting developer environments, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, and cloud-connected workloads to harvest credentials and configuration secrets. The Shai‑Hulud 2.

Dec 9, 2025 Read more

Changing the physics of cyber defense

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, John Lambert, Chief Technology Officer, Corporate Vice President and Security Fellow at Microsoft dives into the future of cyber defense .

Dec 9, 2025 Read more

Stronger together: New Beazley collaboration enhances cyber resilience

Today’s cyberthreat landscape demands more than technical expertise: it requires a unified response team of technical responders, insurers, brokers, and legal counsel. This integrated approach is key to building long-term cyber resilience to help your organization anticipate, withstand, recover from, and adapt to cyberattacks. It’s not just about strong defenses, but how quickly and effectively you respond to an incident .

Dec 8, 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

Copilot Studio advanced customization webinar on December 8: Don't Miss out!

Our dynamic four-part webinar series, Agentic AI + Copilot Partner Skilling Accelerator, empowers you to harness the Microsoft AI ecosystem to unlock new revenue streams and enhance customer success. Across the four sessions, Microsoft partners can expect to learn how to apply AI tools across no-code, low-code, and pro-code scenarios to build intelligent chat and workflow solutions, extend and customize capabilities, and create advanced, custom AI functionality.

Dec 1, 2025 Read more

Microsoft 365 Copilot Business: The future of work for small businesses

We’re excited to announce the general availability of Microsoft 365 Copilot Business—a comprehensive, full-featured AI solution built for SMBs.

Dec 2, 2025 Read more

Dev Proxy v2.0 with improved AI telemetry, and small breaking changes

We’re excited to announce the release of Dev Proxy v2.0 . Following semantic versioning (SemVer), we’re bumping the major version due to breaking changes in this release. While these changes are small, they improve Dev Proxy’s accuracy and behavior – and we want you to be aware of them. This release also brings .NET 10 support, enhanced AI telemetry capabilities, and important fixes that make your API simulations more reliable.

Dec 4, 2025 Read more

New! Centralized Agent Dashboard and Enhanced Reporting

Track Adoption Trends and Export Insights with Copilot and Agent Analytics At Ignite 2025, we unveiled key updates to Copilot and Agent Analytics, introducing new features designed to address a critical challenge facing organizations in their AI transformation journey: the need for actionable, transparent insights into Copilot and agent impact and adoption.

Dec 9, 2025 Read more

Security and governance innovations for Microsoft 365 Copilot and agents from Ignite 2025

Microsoft 365 Copilot is built on a foundation of trust established through our commitments to protect customer data and the controls we make available directly to customers. We’re excited to share the latest updates to these security and governance tools, designed to help you: Gain a unified view of key security and governance features as a Copilot/IT admin Block sensitive data from Copilot processing or sent as web queries Address oversharing through automation and greater visibility The...

Dec 9, 2025 Read more

Retirement of the Visio Data Visualizer add-in for Excel and next steps

Updated on December 8, 2025: The previously announced date of December 8, 2025 for removing the Visio Data Visualizer add-in from the Excel add-in store, templates, and ribbon has been extended until at least January 2026. Exact revised date will be shared in a future update. The service shutdown date of March 2, 2026 remains unchanged. On December 8, 2025, the Visio Data Visualizer add-in will be removed from the Excel add-in store, along with its related Excel templates.

Dec 9, 2025 Read more

Five Ways to Implement the Great Copilot Journey

Microsoft 365 Copilot brings a new way of working to your organization, but unlocking its full potential takes more than just turning it on. Most users have worked a certain way without AI their entire career, so they have adopted non-AI habits and routines for how their work gets done. With Copilot, you are asking them to essentially unlearn those non-AI habits and build new ones with Copilot. That’s where The Great Copilot Journey comes in.

Dec 10, 2025 Read more

What’s new in Microsoft Copilot Studio: November 2025

November 2025 was a busy month for Microsoft Copilot Studio, marked by major announcements at Microsoft Ignite 2025 and a wave of new features now rolling out to makers.

Dec 15, 2025 Read more

Build declarative agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot with MCP

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is revolutionizing AI by providing a universal integration standard for the external systems, unlocking unprecedented capabilities, transforming how AI models access and utilize real-time data. In keeping with this trend, at Ignite 2025 we announced the public preview of Model Context Protocol (MCP) support in declarative agents. Declarative agents enable you to customize Microsoft 365 Copilot to help you meet the unique business needs of your users.

Dec 15, 2025 Read more

Ignite Recap: How Copilot Search and Connectors Are Redefining Productivity

Ready to see how AI is transforming the way you work? At Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft 365 Copilot Search and Connectors took center stage - ushering in a new era of productivity and intelligent search. Let’s dive into these key highlights and what they mean for the future of productivity and intelligent search. Smarter Search, Instant Action When we first announced Microsoft 365 Copilot Search in April of 2025, we recognized a fundamental shift in how people interact with information.

Dec 16, 2025 Read more

Public Preview: Cross-tenant Orchestrated User Data Migration

What’s new Today we’re excited to announce the Public Preview of Cross-tenant Orchestrated User Data Migration (UDM) , a new set of capabilities that help IT teams move user mailboxes, files, and collaboration assets between Microsoft 365 tenants with greater speed, predictability, and control. Whether you’re consolidating after a merger, divesting a business unit, or reorganizing globally, this Public Preview brings a guided, endtoend migration experience that reduces manual steps and helps...

Dec 16, 2025 Read more

Unlock your email potential with Schema.org

Email is a key part of how people get things done, whether it’s booking a reservation, confirming a package delivery, or managing a cab reservation. But as inboxes become increasingly cluttered, important transactional information often gets buried. Users are forced to open multiple emails, search through text, and manually look for key details such as reservation times, delivery status, or order confirmations.

Dec 17, 2025 Read more

What’s New in Microsoft 365 Copilot | November & December 2025

Welcome to the special edition of What's new in Microsoft 365 Copilot for both November and December 2025! Every edition, we highlight new features and enhancements to keep Microsoft 365 admins up to date with Copilot features that help your users be more productive and efficient in the apps they use every day. Let’s take a closer look at what’s new in the last months of 2025: User capabilities: Work IQ enhancements Improvements to quality and agent performance in Copilot Chat Updated...

Dec 17, 2025 Read more

New capabilities for AI admins from Ignite 2025

Microsoft Ignite 2025 brought a wave of exciting updates for admins, focusing on enhanced visibility, control and efficiency in management of AI-powered experiences. Here’s a deeper dive into the key features released to public preview, general availability, or announced and planned for release in the coming weeks. Copilot Control System – Management controls updates Copilot Control System (CCS) is Microsoft’s integrated framework for governing and managing Microsoft 365 Copilot at scale.

Dec 18, 2025 Read more

SharePoint Framework (SPFx) roadmap update – December 2025

As we close out 2025, we want to pause and reflect on what has been an extraordinary year for the SharePoint Framework (SPFx). We continue to be humbled by the momentum of the platform and the scale of impact it enables across Microsoft 365. Tens of millions of users around the world rely every day on SPFx-based solutions – solutions imagined, built, and refined by our incredible ecosystem of customers and partners.

Dec 23, 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

Dynamics 365 sets the bar for agentic sales qualification on new benchmark

In October 2025, we announced the general availability of the Sales Qualification Agent (SQA) in Dynamics 365 Sales —a breakthrough in autonomous lead qualification. Sales Qualification Agent empowers sellers by helping build higher quality opportunity while eliminating tedious, repetitive work. Sales Qualification Agent autonomously researches every lead, initiates personalized outreach, and engages prospects to understand purchase intent, ensuring that sellers spend their time meeting...

Dec 11, 2025 Read more

Sales Qualification Agent: How we evaluated and improved AI quality with benchmarks

The Sales Qualification Agent (SQA) in Dynamics 365 Sales introduces a new class of autonomous sales AI, one that does far more than assist with drafting or summarization. SQA performs multi-step reasoning, conducts live web research, generates personalized outreach, and engages prospects in multi-turn qualification conversations. These capabilities directly shape pipeline quality, seller productivity, and customer relationships.

Dec 11, 2025 Read more

Transforming how organizations run rental operations with Dynamics 365 ERP

Markets are shifting faster than traditional operating models can adapt. Customer expectations are rising. Capital constraints require every decision to deliver measurable value. In this environment, organizations that thrive are those treating business model innovation as a core capability–not an occasional strategy exercise. They are rethinking how value is created, how operations scale, and how technology supports the enterprise. ERP is evolving to meet this moment.

Dec 9, 2025 Read more

The era of agentic business applications arrives at Convergence 2025

In this article From automation to autonomy: The AI-first organization 1. Data: The foundation of agent autonomy 2. Microsoft 365 Copilot: Your strategic productivity partner 3. Agents: Plan, decide, and act Partner-built agents that extend industry workflows Convergence 2025 The way we work is transforming. Generative AI and agentic business applications are catalysts for a profound shift in how we create, collaborate, and make decisions. What once took hours now happens in moments.

Dec 9, 2025 Read more

Beyond Retrieval: How an Agentic Approach Transforms Microsoft Dataverse Search

Imagine being able to ask your CRM system a question like, “ Which opportunities are likely to close this week? ” or “Who has met with Ernie Kerrigan at Contoso recently?” and getting an instant, accurate answer without writing a single query or navigating through multiple Views in Dynamics 365. Whether you’re using Copilot in Dynamics 365 Sales , Power Apps customized through Microsoft Copilot Studio or Microsoft 365 Copilot for Sales , under the hood, these experiences leverage one common...

Dec 8, 2025 Read more

Process Maps as Part of Your Plan: Now Generally Available

We’re excited to announce that Process Maps in Power Apps plans are now generally available ! This feature brings a new level of clarity and efficiency to solution planning by enabling makers to visualize workflows directly within their plans. Whether you’re building a new app or refining an existing solution, process maps help teams align on steps, roles, and decision points before development begins. What’s New?

Dec 12, 2025 Read more

Flexible Dataverse capacity for apps and agents

Business as we know it is changing. Competitive advantage is shifting toward organizations that can harness AI to fundamentally changing the patterns of how work gets done. This enables frontier firms to innovate faster, reduce friction in execution, and dynamically respond to changing conditions in real time. We are seeing new AI-assisted scenarios across Dynamics 365 apps and Power Platform , from natural language queries to automated decision-making.

Dec 4, 2025 Read more

Unlock More Value from Your Existing Solutions with Plans

Building solutions in Power Apps is all about speed, flexibility, and innovation. But what happens when you need to revisit an existing solution—maybe to enhance it, document it, or share its design with stakeholders? Traditionally, this meant manually analyzing apps, tables, and flows to piece together the bigger picture – a time consuming and error prone process. With Plans, we’re making this process effortless.

Dec 3, 2025 Read more

Introducing the Dataverse SDK for Python

Empowering Data Scientists and Developers to unlock Advanced Analytics, Automation, and Innovation With the open-source Dataverse SDK for Python ( announced in Public Preview at Microsoft Ignite 2025), you can fully harness the power of Dataverse business data. This toolkit enables advanced analytics, streamlines automation, and fuels innovation by providing seamless access to enterprise data directly from Python environments. Why Python? Why Now?

Dec 3, 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

Upgrade MSVC, improve C++ build performance, and refactor C++ code with GitHub Copilot

Visual Studio 2026 introduces new GitHub Copilot capabilities to support C++ developers in three development tasks: Performing large-scale C++ refactors Improving C++ build performance Upgrading Microsoft C++ (MSVC) Build Tools These experiences are available now as a Private Preview in Visual Studio 2026. Install Visual Studio 2026 and join the waitlist for Private Preview today.

Dec 1, 2025 Read more

Claude Code + Microsoft Foundry: Enterprise AI Coding Agent Setup

This guide covers setting up Claude Code CLI and VS Code extension with Microsoft Foundry, configuring CLAUDE.md for project context, integrating Spec Kit for structured development, and running Claude Code in GitHub Actions. Prerequisites Azure subscription with Foundry access Node.js 18+ (for Claude Code CLI) Optional: Azure CLI installed ( az login completed) Step 1: Deploy Claude Models in Foundry In Microsoft Foundry : Go to Discover → Models and search “Claude” Select your model (Opus 4.

Dec 2, 2025 Read more

Profiler Agent – Delegate the analysis, not the performance

In Visual Studio 2026 we introduced Copilot Profiler Agent, a new AI-powered assistant that helps you analyze and optimize performance bottlenecks in your code. By combining the power of GitHub Copilot with Visual Studio’s performance profiler, you can now ask natural language questions about performance , get insights into hot paths, and quickly identify optimization opportunities. Let’s walk through a real-world example of how this tool can help you make meaningful performance improvements.

Dec 2, 2025 Read more

The future of AI-powered software optimization (and how it can help your team)

When was the last time you heard someone ask in a standup, “ How could we do this more sustainably? ” Topics like green software and carbon efficiency are unfortunately rarely at the top of busy development teams’ priority lists. What’s more, there are very few “green software practitioners” out there. But we believe we’re at a unique moment in time where this can all change.

Dec 12, 2025 Read more

Behind the scenes of the Visual Studio feedback system

Here on the Visual Studio team, our top priority is making your coding experience smoother and more enjoyable. And that begins with truly listening to your feedback. We understand that sometimes sharing your thoughts can feel like tossing bug reports and suggestions into a black hole. It doesn’t feel good, and we get it. But here’s the good news: over the past year, we’ve resolved more bugs reported by users and delivered more requested features than at any other time in Visual Studio’s history.

Dec 15, 2025 Read more

From Simple Prompts to Complex Insights: AI Expands the Boundaries of Data Transformation (Preview)

In today’s fast-paced business environment, efficiency, and adaptability are essential. Organizations are under constant pressure to streamline processes, reduce complexity, and deliver results faster. Dataflow Gen2 rises to meet these challenges by combining the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with the simplicity of natural language prompts. This approach enables teams to transform workflows and unlock …

Dec 16, 2025 Read more

Announcing the Fabric Extensibility Toolkit Contest

We’re launching a new community contest inviting you to build innovative workload concepts that showcase what’s possible with the Fabric Extensibility Toolkit.

Dec 16, 2025 Read more

Fabric Influencers Spotlight December 2025

Welcome to the December 2025 edition of the Fabric Influencers Spotlight, a recurring monthly post here to shine a bright light on the places on the internet where Microsoft MVPs & Fabric Super Users are doing some amazing work on all aspects of Microsoft Fabric. The Microsoft Fabric Community team has created the Fabric Influencers Spotlight to …

Dec 19, 2025 Read more

How AI fixed my procrastination

I struggled to get started. For ages, I kept putting off building this website, creating a new programming language for Visual Studio, and coming up with fresh color themes. Each project looked overwhelming, and I couldn’t find the time or motivation to jump in. It all just felt like too much at once. But when a national holiday gave me a long weekend, I grabbed the chance to try out Copilot in Visual Studio and see how far I could get.

Dec 22, 2025 Read more

This year’s most influential open source projects

From Appwrite to Zulip, the Open Source Zone at Universe 2025 was stacked with projects that pushed boundaries and turned heads. These twelve open source teams brought the creativity, the engineering craft, and the “I need to try that” demos that make Universe special. Here’s a closer look at what they showcased this year. If you want to join them in 2026, applications for next year’s Open Source Zone are open now !

Dec 22, 2025 Read more

5 podcast episodes to help you build with confidence in 2026

The end of the year creates a rare kind of quiet. It is the kind that makes it easier to reflect on how you have been building, what you have been learning, and what you want to do differently next year. It is also the perfect moment to catch up on the mountain of browser tabs you’ve kept open and podcast episodes you’ve bookmarked. Speaking of podcasts, we have one! (Wow, smooth transition, Cassidy).

Dec 23, 2025 Read more

Strengthening supply chain security: Preparing for the next malware campaign

The open source ecosystem continues to face organized, adaptive supply chain threats that spread through compromised credentials and malicious package lifecycle scripts. The most recent example is the multi-wave Shai-Hulud campaign. While individual incidents differ in their mechanics and speed, the pattern is consistent: Adversaries learn quickly, target maintainer workflows, and exploit trust boundaries in publication pipelines.

Dec 23, 2025 Read more

WRAP up your backlog with GitHub Copilot coding agent

Engineers at GitHub have been using GitHub Copilot coding agent for over a year now, studying through experience where it can help save developers real time and energy. Through our work, we have developed a handy acronym: WRAP, which stands for: W – Write effective issues R – Refine your instructions A – Atomic tasks P – Pair with the coding agent WRAP will help you get the most out of coding agent. For example, you likely have a backlog full of issues that have been tough to prioritize.

Dec 26, 2025 Read more

Bugs that survive the heat of continuous fuzzing

Even when a project has been intensively fuzzed for years, bugs can still survive. ​​OSS-Fuzz is one of the most impactful security initiatives in open source. In collaboration with the OpenSSF Foundation , it has helped to find thousands of bugs in open-source software. Today, OSS-Fuzz fuzzes more than 1,300 open source projects at no cost to maintainers. However, continuous fuzzing is not a silver bullet.

Dec 29, 2025 Read more

Agentic AI, MCP, and spec-driven development: Top blog posts of 2025

As the editor of the GitHub Blog, I get a front-row seat to everything that’s published here. As we wrap up 2025, I’m marking the occasion by looking back at the most popular blog posts of the year as well as some of my favorite interviews. While AI models were the big topic of 2024, this year saw AI become your coding partner. AI agents and agentic tools were top among our most popular posts of the year.

Dec 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

Powering our Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption with gamification

When it comes to powering Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption rates internally here at Microsoft, it’s game on. Literally. We were the first enterprise to fully deploy Copilot in 2024, and now, not two years later, our use of the company’s signature generative AI product is maturing. 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.

Dec 18, 2025 Read more

Deploying Microsoft 365 Copilot in Viva Engage at Microsoft

Microsoft Viva Engage is a critical tool for communicating with our employees internally here at Microsoft. It’s where our employees go to have two-way dialogue, our leaders use it to engage with their teams, and it’s how we listen and respond to our employees at scale. 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.

Dec 18, 2025 Read more

Becoming a Frontier Firm: Our IT playbook for the AI era

Microsoft Digital, the company’s IT team, is rapidly transforming into a Frontier IT Firm—an organization fundamentally restructured for the AI era, where AI-agents are digital colleagues rather than peripheral tools. “Agents are the most significant technological change we’ve seen since the shift to the cloud, and arguably since the advent of the Internet.

Dec 4, 2025 Read more

AI transformation in financial services: 5 predictors for success in 2026

Financial services companies are among the most advanced adopters of AI globally, even though they operate in one of the most heavily regulated environments. The reason is simple: these firms understand the long-term transformative power of AI in a disruptive, rapidly evolving industry landscape. Today, financial services has the highest concentration of Frontier Firms —organizations that embed AI agents across every workflow to drive speed, agility, and scalable innovation.

Dec 18, 2025 Read more

Partners powering AI transformation globally: Agentic solutions in action at ITAP 2025 and Microsoft Ignite 2025

Accelerating industrial AI adoption—Together Events like Industrial Transformation Asia Pacific (ITAP) 2025 and Microsoft Ignite 2025 are critical moments to meet customers where they are—bringing together diverse business and technical decision makers to explore what’s possible today, while introducing new technological breakthroughs that redefine tomorrow’s potential.

Dec 15, 2025 Read more

Accelerate innovation with AI: Introducing the Product Change Management agent template

In this article Reenergizing change management with AI Powering AI change management end-to-end Transforming change management at Coca-Cola Beverages Africa Creating the future of change management in manufacturing, together with partners Shaping the manufacturing Frontier We’re thrilled to announce the public preview of the Product Change Management agent template —an AI-powered solution that transforms how manufacturers manage the process of change across equipment, products, processes, and...

Dec 9, 2025 Read more

Transforming mining: How Frontier Firms lead with AI and agentic innovation

Mining is at a crossroads. Global demand for critical minerals is surging, sustainability pressures are intensifying, and talent shortages are real. Incremental improvements will not cut it. The companies that will lead this era are Frontier Firms—organizations that embrace AI and reinvent work with agentic technologies. Explore the possibilities of AI transformation with Microsoft What is a Frontier Firm?

Dec 8, 2025 Read more

Future-proofing healthcare cybersecurity: What every leader should know

Healthcare cybersecurity isn’t just about technology—it’s about people, trust, and the future of care. Healthcare leaders today are navigating a landscape of escalating cyberthreats and increasing operational complexity. Cybersecurity is not just a technical requirement—it’s essential to building patient trust, ensuring care continuity, and enabling future innovation in healthcare.

Dec 3, 2025 Read more

How retail and consumer goods leaders empower their workforces with AI agents

Retail and consumer goods organizations face a multitude of challenges. Margins are shrinking. Labor shortages are frequent. Customers expect more personalization, speed, and seamless experiences than ever before. Against this backdrop, it’s tempting to view AI as a cure-all: more AI, fewer problems. But the reality is more complex. “Gartner ® predicts that 40% of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by 2027.

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