Microsoft announced that Azure MCP Server capabilities are now included out-of-the-box in Visual Studio 2026, which went GA this week and rewrote the usual long form of the acronym IDE, turning it ...

Power BI Copilot has already changed how we build reports. Natural language prompts now accelerate visual creation, summarization, and exploration. But semantic models — the backbone of analytics — ...

Microsoft's AI Toolkit extension for VS Code now includes a Tool Catalog that can scaffold a Python or TypeScript MCP server with the core transport and registration plumbing already set up. In ...

One of the biggest issues with large language models (LLMs) is working with your own data. They may have been trained on terabytes of text from across the internet, but that only provides them with a ...

However, approach with caution: MCP servers are increasingly becoming a new way to hijack systems or launch cyberattacks, research shows. Microsoft has added Model Context Protocol (MCP) support to ...