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More precise privacy controls are here 🛡️
Windows Insiders in the Experimental channel can now manage camera, microphone and location access for desktop apps individually.
Learn more: msft.it/6018a9l8Y
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🔥 #MSIgnite is coming to SF Nov. 17-20!
The session catalog is LIVE.
Registration is OPEN.
Start exploring what’s ahead, find the sessions you don’t want to miss, and get your agenda ready.
Register today: ignite.microsoft.com/en-US/h…
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One CLI. More of your Windows app development lifecycle in one place. ⚡
SDKs. Manifests. Certificates. Package identity. Packaging.
WinApp CLI brings them together in one command-line experience for Windows app development.
From setup to ship: piped.video/watch?v=2Ud4Xtnk…
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An agent that can’t see your shell can’t really help. 👀
Intelligent Terminal gives your favorite agents the context they need to debug errors, understand commands, and stay in your workflow.
Less context switching. More building.
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Intelligent Terminal just got an upgrade.
With the latest release, developers can securely connect local or cloud-based models using API keys, use Autofix to troubleshoot multi-step failures, and switch models without interrupting their workflow.
👀devblogs.microsoft.com/comma…
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As dev teams race to ship, Windows 365 provides secure, flexible Cloud PCs for an easier path from access to first commit.
There are 5️⃣ ways Windows 365 supports modern development, including running AI locally on the Cloud PC (see below!)
More here: msft.it/6013ab66h
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256 values in a byte.
256th day of the year.
♾️ reasons to appreciate programmers.
Happy #ProgrammersDay 💻
Tag a programmer who deserves some love today 👇
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🚀 CUDA development for Windows on Arm is ready for prime time.
With the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit 13.4 now generally available, you can build and accelerate AI workloads natively for the next generation of Windows PCs powered by @NVIDIARTXSpark.
developer.nvidia.com/topics/…
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Today during the @AMD's #IFA2026 keynote, @pavandavuluri introduced Project Zenith - A ready-to-code Windows experience on developer-class devices.
Debuting on AMD's Ryzen AI Halo, with more devices to come. blogs.windows.com/windowsdev…
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‼️ We have a new podcast, and our first guest is @afit!
On Your Desktop features builders who create great desktop apps we use everyday. In this episode, Aidan talks with @mixen about @reincubate’s journey developing award-winning Camo apps for Windows.
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🎒 Back-to-school dev toolkit check:
Windows Terminal, WinGet, PowerToys, Sudo for Windows, GitHub, WSL Containers, and more.
Which tools are in your Windows Developer starter pack?
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Silicon providers 🤝 OEM partners 🤝 application developers
Windows on Arm is a rapidly expanding ecosystem. In this blog post, we highlight notable new additions to the Windows on Arm app catalog. Spoiler alert: there are a lot!
See the full list here: blogs.windows.com/windowsdev…
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Every new developer needs a starter pack. 🎒
With the GitHub Student Developer Pack, students can access a variety of tools, learning experiences, and partner offers designed to help them build real-world developer skills.
Sign up today: education.github.com/pack
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Spend less time navigating and more time building. 💻
@cinnamon_msft shows you how to customize Windows Terminal with project-specific profiles, automatic commands, split panes, color schemes, and more.
Watch now 👇
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An AI agent can create a personalized birthday card without needing access to your entire PC.
See how sandboxing helps developers give agents the access they need while keeping clear boundaries in place.
Learn more about building agents on Windows: build.microsoft.com/en-US/se…
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Through 8/31, eligible college students can get the Ultimate College Bundle with a qualifying Windows 11 PC:
🎓 1 year of Microsoft 365 Premium
🎮 1 year of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate
🎨 A customizable Xbox Wireless Controller
Over $500 in added value: microsoft.com/en-us/windows/…
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🎒 Head back to class, not back to setup. Windows Developer Configurations help you get coding faster with ready-made workload configs.
Learn more: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/wi…
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Intelligent Terminal 0.2 unlocks more ways to run, customize, and scale your agent workflows.
Local model support ✅
Run a different agent in each tab ✅
Bring your agent into WSL ✅
Get all the details from product manager Hamza Usmani here: devblogs.microsoft.com/comma…
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🎒 New semester, new laptop?
We'll save you the "I have to install everything again?!" headache. 😇
Save your ideal coding setup with WinGet Configuration and recreate your AI or programming environment with a single command.
Less setup. More coding.
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/wi…
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Spiderman may be needed in Brave New World, but there are Pull Requests still pending his review.
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Trust is at the heart of secure app deployment. 🔐
Learn how the MSIX Chain of Trust verifies package integrity, validates publisher identity, and helps ensure apps remain secure from creation to installation: devblogs.microsoft.com/insid…
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Join Microsoft's Baldwin Ng and Intel's Timothy Smith to learn more: piped.video/watch?v=S3b7W6I0…
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Not every video starts in high resolution, but every video can end that way. 🎥 Video Super Resolution is in GA for NPU and CPU to help transform video quality using on-device AI to enhance lower-resolution footage.
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The new Speech Recognition API enables real-time and batch transcription without sending audio to the cloud. Build live captions, dictation, accessibility experiences, voice commands, and more.
Available on Windows 11, version 24H2 and later: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/wi…
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How do you prove cryptographic code does exactly what it's supposed to?
SymCrypt and Azure Research are using Rust, Lean, Aeneas, and AI agents to formally verify production cryptography.
See how this raises assurance for Windows and beyond.
Read more: microsoft.com/en-us/research…
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Intelligent Terminal lets AI agents like GitHub Copilot work alongside you, not instead of you. Get contextual help right inside your terminal while staying in control of your workflow.
Learn more about this exciting new feature: build.microsoft.com/en-US/se…
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Meet Microsoft.UI.Reactor: a new open-source project designed to reimagine the WinUI development experience. 👋
Microsoft.UI.Reactor eliminates the traditional no-code split and makes it easier to manage state and structure components.
Learn more: build.microsoft.com/en-US/se…
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🎙️ Touchstone Podcast is back!
Hear how Microsoft Foundry for Windows enables faster, more private AI with on-device workflows that boost productivity.
Watch the latest episode: piped.video/Oos0MKDNp-w
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AI is changing the pace of vulnerability discovery and remediation. 🔒
Windows is using AI to find issues earlier, accelerate engineering work, strengthen validation, and deliver timely, high-quality security updates.
Read @pavandavuluri's latest blog: blogs.windows.com/windowsexp…
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Did you know @Babylonjs 9.0 brings volumetric lighting, animation retargeting, advanced Gaussian Splats, Frame Graph optimizations, and more to the web?
Learn more about how Babylon.js continues pushing the boundaries of real-time web graphics: blogs.windows.com/windowsdev…
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The MXC Library enforces containment through permissions, file access, network limits, and runtime constraints, providing developers with a practical way to protect critical system resources as agentic systems become more powerful.
Learn more: build.microsoft.com/en-US/se…
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Building AI apps for Windows? New updates to Foundry Local make on-device development easier with simplified setup, broader hardware acceleration, and faster local experiences.
Learn more about what's new: devblogs.microsoft.com/found…
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.@getsome_air is now on Windows! 💻 Bring AI coding agents into a dedicated workspace to plan, build, and review with more context. Available for x64 and ARM64. msft.it/6019vsDEb
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Developers seek the best performance for their apps!
This #MSBuild demo shows beverage sentiment analysis running locally with Windows ML, then switches between CPU and NPU execution so you can see the real performance difference it makes.
Learn more: msft.it/6016vqlBe
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🤝 Innovation happens across the ecosystem. At #MSBuild, we showcased how partners are bringing AI from cloud to edge and power local experiences for creativity, accessibility, productivity, and more on Windows.
Learn more: msft.it/6012voo9Q
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⚡ Your terminal just got smarter.
First introduced at #MicrosoftBuild, Intelligent Terminal makes shell context available to your favorite agents directly from your Terminal to help debug errors, run multi-step tasks, and stay in your flow. devblogs.microsoft.com/comma…
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Developers can now build with Aion 1.0 Instruct for everyday text intelligence (summarization, rewrite, intents, accessibility) and reaches beyond Windows APIs with integration into the Edge browser.
Dig in and share your feedback with us 🔗msft.it/6013vo8Tl
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At #MSBuild we shared how Windows is becoming the trusted platform to build and run AI agents.
With Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC), developers can declare what agents can access.
Plus, OpenClaw now runs natively on Windows leveraging MXC 🦞
➡️msft.it/6016vY79G
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🧠 Unmetered intelligence delivered on Windows.
At #MicrosoftBuild, we shared how developers can bring AI experiences from cloud to local with Windows AI APIs, Foundry Local, and Windows ML.
Local AI is no longer a compromise.
Learn more: msft.it/6012vYbjC
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🔒 New security updates from #MSBuild
Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC) let developers declare what an agent can access while Windows enforces containment boundaries, helping keep agent behavior bounded and observable: blogs.windows.com/windowsdev…
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⚡ New developer experiences on Windows announced at #MSBuild
Coreutils for Windows, WSL containers, Intelligent Terminal, Windows Developer Configurations & more!
All designed to help developers build and ship faster on Windows.
Learn more: msft.it/6016viDy4
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⚡GitHub Copilot CLI & Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC)
At #MSBuild, we demoed how to keep agent behavior bounded and observable through a policy-driven execution layer with containment boundaries enforced at runtime with Windows.
Learn more: msft.it/6018v95op
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⚡Windows App SDK 2.2.0 is now stable, bringing:
🎥 AI-powered Video Super Resolution API for real-time video upscaling
📦 ApplicationData.GetForUnpackaged() for simpler app data in unpackaged apps
🛠️ New XAML binding helpers for cleaner UI code
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WSL containers ⚡
At #MSBuild, we announced a built-in way to create, run, and interact with Linux containers on Windows.
Watch the demo on demand: msft.it/6019vg3LJ
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Windows AI APIs are expanding beyond NPUs to CPUs and GPUs 🧠
This includes the Speech Recognition API for on-device speech-to-text recognition on NPUs and CPUs 🗣️
Helping developers bring local AI experiences to more Windows 11 devices. #MSBuild msft.it/6014v5dee
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Thanks for joining us at #MSBuild 🫶
This week, we shared new capabilities furthering Windows as the trusted platform for development.
Catch up on all the announcements: msft.it/6010vdC5w
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Introducing DGX Station for Windows
Built with @NVIDIA GB300 Grace Blackwell-class AI infrastructure, it brings deskside AI supercomputing to Windows — with the compute needed to build, run, and connect powerful AI agents #MSBuild msft.it/6018vdNGE
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🧠 Unmetered intelligence delivered on Windows.
At #MSBuild, we showcased how Microsoft Foundry on Windows helps developers bring AI from cloud to edge and scale local AI across a diverse hardware ecosystem.
Learn more: msft.it/6010vdpnO
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