Microsoft says that developers will be able to create and debug their own plug-ins in a number of ways, including through its Azure AI family of apps, which is adding capabilities to run and test ...

IDG. Microsoft Fabric home screen. Note the links to Power BI, Data Factory, Data Activator, Synapse Data Engineering, Synapse Data Science, Synapse Data Warehouse, and Synapse Real-Time Analytics.

Microsoft’s developer division is now focused on an AI-first app future. Former Meta engineering chief Jay Parikh is in charge of this new engineering group.

Microsoft is integrating MCP support directly into Windows. It’s part of a big push to build an AI platform for Windows AI Foundry.

On Thursday, Microsoft announced a natural language-based AI tool called Copilot that will be embedded across its Office suite of applications such as Word, Teams, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint.