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2025 (12)

December (4)

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

Microsoft Security Blog

2025-12-15

Microsoft was named an overall leader in the KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Generative AI Defense, announced on the Microsoft Security Blog.

dotnet: Microsoft Learn MCP Server Elevates Development

.NET

2025-12-08

Microsoft's Learn MCP server improves the Copilot developer experience by providing practical examples and clear integration steps for Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, the Copilot CLI, and the Copilot Coding Agent.

security: Stronger together: New Beazley collaboration enhances cyber resilience

Microsoft Security Blog

2025-12-08

Microsoft announced a new collaboration with Beazley naming them an incident response partner to strengthen cyber resilience by aligning with ecosystem partners and improving security for customers.

security: Microsoft named a leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Email Security

Microsoft Security Blog

2025-12-05

Microsoft was named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Email Security, highlighting the innovative capabilities of Microsoft Defender for Office 365.

November (8)

ai: Introducing Memory in Foundry Agent Service

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2025-11-25

Microsoft's Foundry Agent Service introduces a memory capability so conversational agents can retain context across interactions rather than being stateless. This aims to prevent agents from repeating questions and removes the need for developers to build custom memory solutions using embeddings and external databases.

security: Microsoft named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Access Management for the ninth consecutive year

Microsoft Security Blog

2025-11-21

Microsoft was named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Access Management, marking the ninth consecutive year the company has received this recognition.

dotnet: Reinventing how .NET Builds and Ships (Again)

.NET

2025-11-20

The article describes how the .NET team replaced a complex distributed build system with a Unified Build approach. This change significantly simplified the build pipeline, cut build times, and made shipping .NET releases more flexible and predictable.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: DNS security policy Threat Intelligence feed

Azure Updates

2025-11-20

Azure DNS security policy Threat Intelligence feed is now generally available. It provides a Microsoft-managed threat intelligence feed to protect DNS queries by identifying and blocking known malicious domains, helping prevent attacks that begin with DNS resolution.

ai: Foundry Local comes to Android—plus on-device speech, on-prem support, and a simpler SDK

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2025-11-20

Microsoft announces Foundry Local for Android, a preview that lets developers run AI models directly on Android devices without cloud round trips. The release also introduces on-device speech capabilities, on-premises deployment options, and a simplified SDK to make integrating local AI into mobile apps easier. A gated preview signup is available.

azure: [Launched] Generally Availabe: SQL Server 2025

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

SQL Server 2025 is now generally available. Positioned as an AI-ready enterprise database, the release brings built-in AI capabilities and closer integration with Microsoft’s data platform as part of Microsoft’s effort to modernize enterprise data platforms.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: LLM Speech in Microsoft Foundry

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Microsoft Foundry announces a public preview of LLM Speech, an API that applies large language model capabilities to speech tasks—providing fluent, context-aware transcription and translation with expanded multilingual support and advanced prompt tuning.

azure: [In preview] Announcing: Developer Training tier for low-cost fine-tuning training

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Microsoft Foundry announced a Developer Training tier (preview) that offers ultra-low-cost fine-tuning model training by using spot capacity. The tier aims to provide training affordability comparable to the existing Developer hosting tier, specifically for the training phase of fine-tuning workflows.