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Mar 18, 2025

Upcoming Updates for Azure Pipelines Agents Images

To ensure our hosted agents in Azure Pipelines are operating in the most secure and up-to-date environments, we continuously update the supported images and phase out older ones. In October 2024, we announced support for Ubuntu-24.04. Soon, we plan to update the ubuntu-latest image to...
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Mar 18, 2025

Optimizing Build Times with Build Insights: How Activision Cut Call of Duty’s Build Time by 50%

Slow build times are a major headache for developers, especially in large, complex C++ codebases like game engines. Every minute spent waiting on a build is time that could be used to refine features, resolve issues, or push development forward. Activision faced this challenge with Call...
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Accelerating Agentic Workflows with NVIDIA AgentIQ, Azure AI Foundry and Semantic Kernel

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Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey
Today, we're excited to announce our collaboration with NVIDIA. In Azure AI Foundry, we've integrated NVIDIA NIM microservices and the NVIDIA AgentIQ toolkit into Azure AI Foundry—unlocking unprecedented efficiency, performance, and cost optimization for your AI projects. Read more on...
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Optimizing Build Times with Build Insights: How Activision Cut Call of Duty’s Build Time by 50%

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Moyo Okeremi
Slow build times are a major headache for developers, especially in large, complex C++ codebases like game engines. Every minute spent waiting on a build is time that could be used to refine features, resolve issues, or push development forward. Activision faced this challenge with Call...
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Mar 18, 2025
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Build a Streamlit application with Fabric SQL Database

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Sunitha Muthukrishna
Building an application allows you to operationalize the data you have in Microsoft Fabric, such that it can be consumed by stakeholders in your organization to generate business insights.  Streamlit is easy to use to build simple applications without needing to know front-end...
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Mar 18, 2025
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.NET 10 Preview 2 is now available!

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.NET Team
Find out about the new features in .NET 10 Preview 2 across the .NET runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, C#, .NET MAUI, and more!
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Mar 18, 2025
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Upcoming Updates for Azure Pipelines Agents Images

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To ensure our hosted agents in Azure Pipelines are operating in the most secure and up-to-date environments, we continuously update the supported images and phase out older ones. In October 2024, we announced support for Ubuntu-24.04. Soon, we plan to update the ubuntu-latest image to...
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Mar 18, 2025
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Embracing Zero Trust: Never Trust, Always Verify

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Ehud Itshaki, Principal Product Manager, Microsoft Security
Microsoft's 2024 Digital Defense Report found that between July 2023 and July 2024, Microsoft customers faced an astounding 600 million attacks daily from both cybercriminals and nation-state actors. space In this high-risk and rapidly evolving environment, individuals and...
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Mar 18, 2025
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Boost your GitHub productivity with our new multi-account support!

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Ruben Rios
Managing your GitHub identity in Visual Studio 2022 just got easier! Our latest update overhauls the GitHub account management experience and improves how you work with multiple accounts, especially for GitHub Copilot and version control scenarios. In this post, we'll detail how these...
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Mar 18, 2025
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Why didn't Windows 95 setup use a miniature version of Windows 95 as its fallback GUI?

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Raymond Chen
Avoiding an interim GUI environment.
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Mar 18, 2025
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Announcing the General Availability of OpenID Connect external identity provider support for Microsoft Entra External ID

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Bora Ozbayburtlu
Discover the new OpenID Connect identity provider support in Microsoft Entra External ID, now generally available. Simplify user sign-in and partner integrations, and improve conversion rates and user satisfaction by federating with external identity providers like Okta, Amazon, Auth0, and Azure AD B2C.
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