Model Context Protocol
The latest Model Context Protocol coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Claude Sonnet 4 Lands in Microsoft 365 Copilot, Upending OpenAI Partnership
Microsoft is breaking its exclusive reliance on OpenAI for Copilot's brainpower, integrating Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 into Microsoft 365 to power productivity tasks like slide generation and...
Cloudflare and Microsoft Unveil NLWeb + AutoRAG to Give Publishers an AI Search Lifeline
The open web’s oldest bargain—free content in exchange for traffic—is under assault. AI assistants now deliver instant answers scraped from publisher sites, sending readers directly to a chat...
Azure AI Foundry: Microsoft's Platform Bridges AI Agent Prototyping and Production with VS Code, MCP, and A2A
Microsoft today positioned Azure AI Foundry as the central platform for enterprises moving from AI agent experiments to production-grade deployments, emphasizing developer-native tooling, open...
Claude’s Notion connector surfaces hidden project dependencies and bottlenecks — here’s what Windows users need to know
Claude can now read your Notion task database, trace dependencies you forgot you mapped, and spit out a schedule that respects your chronic underestimation of testing work. The AI turned a chaotic...
KylinOS 11 Debuts as First Chinese Distro on Linux 6.6 with AI and Compute-Sharing
KylinSoft has released KylinOS 11, a major overhaul of China’s flagship domestic Linux distribution, built on Linux kernel 6.6 and packed with on-device AI capabilities, an AI assistant, and a...
Microsoft’s 1.3 Billion Agent Projection Sparks Urgent Security Overhaul with Entra Agent ID and MCP Governance
Microsoft expects more than 1.3 billion AI agents to be operating across enterprises by 2028—a staggering scale that demands a fundamental rethink of identity, access, and runtime security. The...
Microsoft's Azure MCP server now works in Visual Studio via Copilot Agent Mode preview
Microsoft just turned Visual Studio 2022 into a command center for Azure, rolling out a public preview of the GitHub Copilot for Azure extension that lets developers query resources, pull logs, run...
You Can Now Silence GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio 2022: Debounced and On-Demand Completions Arrive
Microsoft has shipped a set of focused updates in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.14.13 that fundamentally alter how GitHub Copilot interacts with developers in the code editor. For the first time,...
Visual Studio MCP GA Brings GitHub Server v0.12.1, but Prompt Injection Risks Demand Vigilance
Microsoft has shipped general availability support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) directly into Visual Studio, letting developers connect Copilot Chat to external services through a simple...
October 2025: Windows 10 Support Ends, Microsoft’s AI-First PC Era Begins
On October 14, 2025, Microsoft cut off free security updates for Windows 10, forcing millions of users still on the decade-old operating system to confront an immediate migration deadline. The...
Microsoft's Agent Factory Brings Discoverable, Governed AI Tools to Azure via MCP
Microsoft has published a new blueprint for enterprise AI agents, codified as the Agent Factory guidance in Azure AI Foundry, that places open tool standards and centralized governance at the core of...
Visual Studio Gets MCP GA: Copilot Can Now Securely Access Databases, CI, and More
Microsoft has released general availability of Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration in Visual Studio, marking a pivotal shift in how developers wield AI assistants. Starting today, GitHub Copilot...