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Entrepreneur
20-05-2025
- Business
- Entrepreneur
Microsoft Expands AI Footprint with New Tools for Developers and Enterprises
"It's all about expanding opportunity for developers across every layer of the stack so that you all can build the apps, the agents that can empower every person and every organization on the planet," says Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft You're reading Entrepreneur India, an international franchise of Entrepreneur Media. Microsoft has announced changes across its developer platforms at its annual Build conference 2025, reflecting how AI is altering the software development lifecycle. GitHub Copilot is being restructured into an asynchronous coding agent embedded within the platform, with added features like prompt management, model evaluations and enterprise-level controls. Copilot Chat is now open-sourced in Visual Studio Code, marking a continued push toward open collaboration in AI development. "This is the next big step forward, which is a full coding agent built right into GitHub, taking Copilot from being a pair programmer to a peer programmer. You can assign issues to Copilot, bug fixes, new features, code maintenance, and it'll complete these tasks autonomously. Today, I'm super excited that it's now available to all of you," explained Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft. "It's all about expanding opportunity for developers across every layer of the stack so that you all can build the apps, the agents that can empower every person and every organization on the planet," said Nadella. Windows AI Foundry, introduced at Build, is being positioned as a unified platform for managing training and inference tasks across local and cloud environments. It supports both open-source and proprietary models, and offers simplified APIs for common language and vision-based tasks. Meanwhile, Azure AI Foundry now hosts over 1,900 AI models, including new additions such as Grok 3 and Grok 3 Mini from xAI. Tools like the Model Leaderboard and Model Router have been introduced to help developers evaluate and deploy models more effectively. In line with the broader industry conversation around open AI infrastructure, Microsoft is expanding support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) across its platforms and has joined the MCP Steering Committee. The protocol is aimed at standardising how AI agents interact with data and services online, and new contributions include a server registry and updated authorisation mechanisms. A new initiative called NLWeb was also introduced, which aims to allow websites to offer conversational, agent-compatible interfaces to their content. NLWeb endpoints would also function as MCP servers, offering websites the option to make their data and services accessible to AI agents under agreed protocols. Nadella also highlighted how Teams is being transformed into a multiplayer AI environment, where agents can be summoned, assigned tasks, and embedded directly into conversations. "I feel we are at that age where we are now gonna put expertise at your fingertips. Teams takes all that and makes it multiplayer, right? All of the agents you build can now show up in Teams and in Copilot. You can ask questions, assign action items, or kick off a workflow by just at-mentioning an agent in a chat or meeting and with the Teams AI library, building multiplayer agents is easier than ever. It now supports MCP. With just one line of code, you can even have it enable A2A. You can add things like episodic or semantic memory by using Azure Search and a new retrieval system and as a developer, you can now publish. This is the biggest thing, right? Now you can build an agent. You can publish your agent to the agent store and have them discovered and distributed across both Copilot and Teams, providing you access to the hundreds of millions of users and unlocking that opportunity," added Nadella. Microsoft has also introduced a new research platform, Microsoft Discovery, which aims to apply agentic AI to scientific work. The tool is designed to support researchers across disciplines by streamlining discovery workflows, from data analysis to product development.
Washington Post
19-05-2025
- Business
- Washington Post
Elon Musk, who's suing Microsoft, is also software giant's special guest in new Grok AI partnership
Elon Musk is in a legal fight with Microsoft but made a friendly virtual appearance at the software giant's annual technology showcase to reveal that his Grok artificial intelligence chatbot will now be hosted on Microsoft's data centers. 'It's fantastic to have you at our developer conference,' Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said to Musk in a pre-recorded video conversation broadcast Monday at Microsoft's Build conference in Seattle.
The Verge
19-05-2025
- The Verge
Microsoft's Edit on Windows is a new command-line text editor
Microsoft is unveiling its own command-line text editor at its Build conference today. Edit on Windows will be accessible by using 'edit' in a command prompt, allowing developers to edit files within the command line. It's part of several improvements aimed at bettering the Windows experience for developers. Edit on Windows is an open-source project by Microsoft, and it enables developers to edit files directly in the command line, just like vim, without having to switch to another app or window. Edit is small and lightweight, at less than 250KB in size. All the menu options on Edit have key bindings, and you can open multiple files and switch between them using the ctrl + P shortcut. Microsoft has also added find and replace to Edit, as well as match case and regular expression support, as well. Edit also supports word wrapping. 'What motivated us to build Edit was the need for a default CLI text editor in 64-bit versions of Windows,' explains Christopher Nguyen, product manager of Windows Terminal. '32-bit versions of Windows ship with the MS-DOS Edit or, but 64-bit versions do not have a CLI editor installed inbox.' Microsoft also wanted to avoid the 'how do I exit vim?' meme, so it built its own text editor instead of relying on other available options. 'Because we wanted to avoid this for a built-in default editor, we decided that we wanted a modeless editor for Windows (versus a modal editor where new users would have to remember different modes of operation and how to switch between them),' Nguyen says. Edit on Windows will be available in the Windows Insider program in the coming months. Microsoft has more information about Edit over at its GitHub repo. Microsoft is also rebranding its Windows Dev Home to Advanced Windows Settings. 'Advanced Windows Settings allow developers to easily control and personalize their Windows experience,' says Windows chief Pavan Davuluri. Instead of being a separate app, it simply exposes additional toggles in the main Windows 11 settings interface, including the ability to enable File Explorer with GitHub control details.
The Verge
19-05-2025
- The Verge
Microsoft's Edit on Windows is a new command line text editor
Microsoft is unveiling its own command line text editor on Windows today. Edit on Windows will be accessible by using 'edit' in a command prompt, allowing developers to edit files within the command line. It's part of a number of improvements to Windows developer tools at Microsoft's Build conference today to improve the Windows experience for developers. Edit on Windows is an open-source project by Microsoft, and it enables developers to edit files directly in the command line, without having to switch to another app or window. Edit is small and lightweight, at less than 250KB in size. All the menu options on Edit have keybindings, and you can open multiple files and switch between them using the ctrl + P shortcut. Microsoft has also added find and replace to Edit, as well as match case and regular expression support as well. Edit also supports word wrapping. 'What motivated us to build Edit was the need for a default CLI text editor in 64-bit versions of Windows,' explains Christopher Nguyen, product manager of Windows Terminal. '32-bit versions of Windows ship with the MS-DOS Edit or, but 64-bit versions do not have a CLI editor installed inbox.' Microsoft also wanted to avoid the 'how do I exit vim?' meme, so it built its own text editor instead of relying on other available options. 'Because we wanted to avoid this for a built-in default editor, we decided that we wanted a modeless editor for Windows (versus a modal editor where new users would have to remember different modes of operation and how to switch between them),' says Nguyen. Edit on Windows will be available in the Windows Insider program in the coming months. Microsoft has more information about Edit on Windows over at its GitHub repo. Microsoft is also rebranding its Windows Dev Home to Advanced Windows Settings today. 'Advanced Windows Settings allow developers to easily control and personalize their Windows experience,' says Windows chief Pavan Davuluri. Instead of being a separate app, Advanced Windows Settings simply exposes additional toggles in the main Windows 11 settings interface, including the ability to enable File Explorer with GitHub version control details.
The Verge
19-05-2025
- The Verge
Microsoft is opening its on-device AI models up to web apps in Edge
Web developers will be able to start leveraging on-device AI in Microsoft's Edge browser soon, using new APIs that can give their web apps access to Microsoft's Phi-4-mini model, the company announced at its Build conference today. And Microsoft says the API will be cross-platform, so it sounds like these APIs will work with the Edge browser in macOS, as well. The 3.8-billion-parameter Phi-4-mini is Microsoft's latest small, on-device model, rolled out in February alongside the company's larger Phi-4. With the new APIs, web developers will be able to add prompt boxes and offer writing assistance tools for text generation, summarizing, and editing. And within the next couple of months, Microsoft says it will also release a text translation API. Microsoft is putting these 'experimental' APIs forth as potential web standards, and in addition to being cross-platform, it says they'll also work with other AI models. Developers can start trialing them in the Edge Canary and Dev channels now, the company says. Google offers similar APIs for its Chrome browser. With them, developers can use Chrome's built-in models to offer things like text translation, prompt boxes for text and image generation, and calendar event creation based on webpage content.
