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security: Building a lasting security culture at Microsoft

Microsoft Security Blog

2025-10-13

Microsoft frames building a lasting security culture as a strategic priority and a call to action: security is people-centered, every employee has a role, and embedding secure practices into how people think, work, and collaborate creates a unified, proactive, and resilient defense for Microsoft and its customers.

security: Inside Microsoft Threat Intelligence: Calm in the chaos

Microsoft Security Blog

2025-10-06

Microsoft’s Incident Response team works effectively amid the disorder caused by fast-moving threat actors, treating compromised environments, missing data, and shaken confidence as the starting point for investigations, as described in the Microsoft Security Blog post "Inside Microsoft Threat Intelligence: Calm in the chaos."

security: Microsoft named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for XDR

Microsoft Security Blog

2025-10-02

Microsoft was named a Leader in IDC’s inaugural Worldwide Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Software MarketScape for 2025, recognized for its deep integration, intelligent automation, and unified security operations solutions, as reported on the Microsoft Security Blog.

ai: Introducing Microsoft Agent Framework: The Open-Source Engine for Agentic AI Apps

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2025-10-01

Microsoft announced the open-source Microsoft Agent Framework, an engine designed for building agentic AI applications. The framework addresses the evolving needs of AI agents — which go beyond chatbots and copilots — by enabling autonomous components that can reason about goals, call tools and APIs, collaborate with other agents, and adapt dynamically. The announcement appeared on the Azure AI Foundry Blog.

September (6)

security: Introducing Microsoft Marketplace — Thousands of solutions. Millions of customers. One Marketplace.

Microsoft Security Blog

2025-09-25

Microsoft announced the launch of the reimagined Microsoft Marketplace, a unified and trusted destination for cloud solutions, AI apps and agents designed to connect thousands of solutions with millions of customers and empower organizations to become 'Frontier'.

dotnet: Exploring Text-to-Image capabilities in .NET

.NET

2025-09-24

A .NET Blog post that demonstrates how to generate images from natural-language prompts using the universal abstractions provided by Microsoft's extensions for .NET AI, exploring text-to-image capabilities in .NET.

dotnet: .NET STS releases supported for 24 months

.NET

2025-09-16

Microsoft announced on the .NET Blog that .NET STS (short-term support) releases will be supported for 24 months.

github: Deprecated Microsoft models in GitHub Models

GitHub

2025-09-11

GitHub announced deprecation of certain Microsoft models in GitHub Models and recommends users migrate to the suggested replacements (for example, Phi-3-medium-4k-instruct users should transition to Phi-4) to continue using improved models with enhanced features.

dotnet: Performance Improvements in .NET 10

.NET

2025-09-10

A blog post announcing and summarizing hundreds of performance improvements in .NET 10, offering a guided tour of enhancements across the platform to make apps faster, more memory-efficient, and more responsive.

dotnet: Announcing .NET 10 Release Candidate 1

.NET

2025-09-09

.NET 10 Release Candidate 1 is now available, bringing improvements across the runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, .NET MAUI, and more.

August (1)

security: Microsoft ranked number one in modern endpoint security market share third year in a row

Microsoft Security Blog

2025-08-27

Microsoft was ranked number one in the modern endpoint security market share for the third consecutive year, according to a new IDC report, as announced on the Microsoft Security Blog.