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In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words

Starting in Word and expanding to nearly every other word processor, and even things that aren't word processors.
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Stop overloading your skills

You built a skill for your technology. API references, authentication flows, SDK patterns, error handling, version info, all packed into one skill. The agent calls it, gets all that context, and generates code. The kicker? You've just wasted a lot of tokens. It already knows Models have...
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Jun 23, 2026
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Streamline C++ Code Intelligence Setup in Copilot CLI

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Sinem Akinci
C++ developers can now bring IDE-style semantic intelligence into Copilot CLI with less setup. The C++ language server plugin supports richer code navigation, diagnostics, symbol understanding, and code changes by using the same build context your compiler does. That build context...
C++ Team Blog
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Jun 23, 2026
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Add vs Stage and Register

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Howard Kapustein
As previously mentioned to 'install' a package, as people think of the term, Windows actually performs two separate operations: staging and registration. To oversimplify: Staging puts the package content on disk. At this point the package is present, but inert and unused. Registering...
Inside MSIX
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Jun 23, 2026
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Going beyond text in Microsoft 365 Copilot - Introducing SharePoint Copilot Apps

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Vesa Juvonen
Microsoft 365 Copilot is brilliant with words - but work isn't only words. Introducing SharePoint Copilot Apps: bring rich, interactive UX components straight into the Copilot canvas, built with any JavaScript stack your team already knows. Reuse your existing SPFx investments across Copilot, SharePoint, and Teams - no new platform, no infrastructure, no lock-in.
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog
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Jun 22, 2026
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Azure SDK Release (May 2026)

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Justin Bettencourt
Azure SDK releases every month. In this post, you'll find this month's highlights and release notes.
Azure SDK Blog
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Jun 22, 2026
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Meet your agent harness and claw

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Wes Steyn
Part 1 of Build your own claw and agent harness with Microsoft Agent Framework. In the overview we said a "claw" is really just an agent harness: a loop around a model, wired up with tools, planning, memory, and more. In this first post we stand up that loop and give our personal...
Microsoft Agent Framework
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Jun 22, 2026
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Build your own claw and agent harness with Microsoft Agent Framework

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Wes Steyn
What does it take to build your own "claw" - a capable, CLI-style agent that can plan, use tools, remember things, and safely act on your behalf? Coding agents and assistants like these can feel like magic, but underneath they are an agent harness: a loop around a language model wired up...
Microsoft Agent Framework
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Jun 22, 2026
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Models don't have preferences, they have context

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Waldek Mastykarz
You open a fresh chat, type "What framework should I use for a web app?", and the model says "React." You screenshot it, share it, and write "Claude prefers React." It gets engagement. People nod along. A few reply with their own results. And now we have a consensus: Claude prefers React....
Microsoft for Developers
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Jun 22, 2026
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In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words

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Raymond Chen
Starting in Word and expanding to nearly every other word processor, and even things that aren't word processors.
The Old New Thing
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Jun 22, 2026
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How to Use Deep Agents with Azure Cosmos DB – Plan, act, and verify against operational data

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Abhishek Gupta
Deep Agents is an agent harness built on LangGraph, for agents that need to work through a task over many steps instead of a single LLM call. The agent runs tools, looks at the results, and uses that to pick the next one, keeping a todo list as it goes. On top of that loop the harness...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog