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AI agents unleashed in Windows with Model Context Protocol
- Microsoft announces support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in Windows 11, enabling AI agents to connect with native Windows applications securely.
- MCP allows AI agents to access computing tools in a standardized way and exposes application functionality to agents running on Windows 11 PCs.
- Microsoft emphasizes security and user control in AI agent interactions with MCP servers, enforcing least privilege and auditable actions.
- Companies like Anthropic, Figma Inc., and Perplexity AI Inc. will integrate MCP into their Windows-based apps, with Microsoft joining the MCP Steering Committee to shape future development.
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Accelerating AI development with Windows-based AI workstations
- Windows AI Foundry offers powerful capabilities for AI development, enabling developers to deploy models across various silicon partners like AMD, Intel, NVIDIA, and Qualcomm.
- Windows-based AI workstations are essential for handling intensive computational demands of AI tasks such as data processing, model training, and deployment.
- Benefits of Windows-based workstations for AI developers include privacy, cost efficiency, speed, and reliability in local development.
- Windows workstations cater to diverse needs of AI developers with options from OEM partners like Dell, HP, and Lenovo, providing flexibility in form factors and performance levels.
- Examples of Windows workstations showcased include Dell Pro Max Tower T2, Dell Pro Max 16 laptop, HP ZBook Ultra G1a, HP Z2 Mini G1a, Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 6, and Lenovo ThinkPad P16s Gen 4.
- Fine-tuning models locally on workstations like Dell Pro Max Tower T2 can significantly improve productivity by reducing time and costs compared to cloud-based solutions.
- HP ZBook Ultra G1a allows developers to harness GPU power on the go, enabling tasks like loading and running large AI models locally for enhanced performance and resource utilization.
- Future AI development on Windows workstations is emphasized, with the prediction that by 2027, 60% of PCs shipped will feature on-device AI capabilities.
- Alignment of software and hardware innovation is crucial, and developers are encouraged to utilize Windows AI Foundry and invest in modern hardware for optimal AI development.
- Having the right workstation accelerates AI development cycles and ensures compatibility across a range of processors, GPUs, and NPUs, driving innovation and success in the AI landscape.
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NLWeb is Microsoft’s new, open-source tool that integrates generative AI search into any website
- Microsoft introduces NLWeb, an open-source tool to integrate generative AI search into any website, making it an AI-powered application through natural language capabilities.
- NLWeb aims to simplify the creation of natural language interfaces for websites, allowing users to query website content using voice commands similar to AI assistants like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot.
- The project leverages semistructured data and large language models (LLMs) to create natural language interfaces accessible to both humans and AI agents, enriching queries with external knowledge.
- NLWeb is designed to be technology-agnostic, supports major operating systems beyond Windows, and has already been adopted by websites like Tripadvisor, Shopify, and Eventbrite, with contributions from various organizations.
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Enhance your application security with administrator protection
- Administrator protection is a security feature in Windows 11 aimed at protecting admin users while allowing necessary functions with admin permissions.
- It offers guidelines for app developers to use elevation securely with administrator protection enabled.
- The feature minimizes risks related to elevated privileges by providing just-in-time admin privileges.
- Administrator protection enforces the Principle of Least Privilege and uses a separate profile for security.
- Auto-elevation is removed, ensuring users authorize every admin operation to prevent misuse of admin privileges.
- Windows Hello integration enhances security and authentication experience for users.
- Running applications with administrator protection creates isolated admin tokens, improving security.
- Files, registry hives, and configurations are separated between profiles, avoiding classic UAC bypass attacks.
- Guidelines suggest running applications as non-elevated to reduce the need for elevation.
- Troubleshooting tips, recommendations, and a case study on Visual Studio with administrator protection are provided.
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Microsoft Store expands opportunities for Windows app developers
- Microsoft is enhancing the Windows developer platform through Copilot+ PC to provide opportunities for app developers to scale user acquisition strategies and create immersive experiences.
- The Windows app ecosystem has seen advancements in AI, productivity tools, creative applications, and partnerships with companies like Tencent.
- The Microsoft Store, which has over 250 million monthly active users, is considered a trusted and scalable PC distribution channel for both consumer and commercial devices.
- Microsoft is introducing new initiatives like free developer registration for individuals, the Microsoft Store FastTrack program for companies, and improvements in certification processes.
- Developers can now utilize the Microsoft Store Web Installer for a streamlined download experience, leverage Windows Search for app discovery, and create campaigns to promote their apps.
- Enhanced analytics tools like Acquisition Reports and Health Reports in Partner Center provide insights into app quality and user behavior for developers to optimize their apps.
- The Store is evolving by providing more intent-aware discovery through Windows Search and offering enterprise distribution via Intune for Win32 apps and AI apps.
- Developers can now participate in the App Campaigns program to create campaigns for their apps and games across Microsoft Store and other Microsoft surfaces.
- Overall, the new initiatives aim to make the Microsoft Store a more inclusive, accessible platform empowering developers to innovate and thrive on the Windows ecosystem.
- For more details and to join these programs, developers can visit the provided URLs and resources shared in the article.
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Advancing Windows for AI development: New platform capabilities and tools introduced at Build 2025
- Microsoft introduced new platform capabilities and tools at Build 2025, focusing on advancing Windows for AI development.
- Windows is positioned as an open platform empowering developers with flexibility to leverage AI across software, silicon, and hardware.
- The Windows AI Foundry offers capabilities supporting the AI developer lifecycle, including model selection, fine-tuning, and deployment across client and cloud.
- Windows ML serves as the foundation of the AI platform, enabling developers to deploy models efficiently across various silicon partners.
- Windows AI Foundry integrates Foundry Local and model catalogs like Ollama and NVIDIA NIMs, providing access to open-source models on diverse Windows silicon.
- New Windows 11 features include Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, App Actions for developers, and security enhancements like VBS Enclave SDK and post-quantum cryptography.
- Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) has been open-sourced, offering a seamless integration of Linux into Windows for cross-platform development.
- Improvements to popular Windows Developer tools like WinGet, PowerToys, and Terminal aim to enhance developer productivity.
- The Microsoft Store now offers free developer registration, App Campaigns, and new analytic reports to help app developers grow user acquisition, discovery, and engagement on Windows.
- Windows AI Foundry democratizes AI development, offering ready-to-use APIs, tools to customize models, and a high-performance inference runtime for deploying models across silicon.
- The introduction of semantic search, LoRA support for Phi Silica, and expansion of Windows ecosystem with MCP illustrates Microsoft's commitment to empowering developers for an AI-driven future.
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AI dev tools for Windows get a fresh coat of paint
- Microsoft announced Windows AI Foundry, a unified platform for local AI development during its Build 2025 conference.
- Windows AI Foundry aims to simplify the process of fine-tuning, optimizing, and deploying AI models for Windows apps.
- The platform includes Foundry Local, a service to run AI models on client devices like Windows and macOS, using ONXX Runtime.
- Foundry Local automatically detects device hardware and provides tools to integrate AI models in applications, making it easier for developers.
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Microsoft wants to tap AI to accelerate scientific discovery
- Microsoft announced Microsoft Discovery, a platform that utilizes agentic AI to accelerate the scientific discovery process.
- Microsoft Discovery is designed to handle science-related workloads end-to-end, from knowledge reasoning to hypothesis formulation and simulation.
- While AI labs like Google have introduced AI tools for science, many researchers doubt the current usefulness of AI in guiding scientific processes due to unreliability.
- Results from AI systems in science have been underwhelming, with instances of materials not being new and high-profile clinical trial failures in drug discovery.
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It’ll soon be free to publish apps to the Microsoft Store
- Microsoft is scrapping developer onboarding fees for the Microsoft Store on Windows, allowing individual developers to publish apps for free starting June 2025.
- Previously, developers had to pay around $19 for registration to publish apps on the Microsoft Store.
- This move follows Apple facing legal pressure to reduce its App Store fees, although Microsoft will continue to charge a 12% fee for games and a 15% fee for apps that use its commerce platform.
- Developers using their own commerce system on the Microsoft Store can keep 100% of the revenue for non-gaming apps.
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NLWeb is Microsoft’s project to bring more chatbots to webpages
- Microsoft has launched a project called NLWeb to simplify building AI-powered chatbots on webpages.
- NLWeb allows websites to create conversational interfaces with just a few lines of code, an AI model, and their own data.
- Webpages built using NLWeb can make their content discoverable to AI platforms supporting MCP.
- NLWeb might have origins in technology from OpenAI, as OpenAI was previously working on a similar project with partners like Condé Nast and Priceline.
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GitHub, Microsoft embrace Anthropic’s spec for connecting AI models to data sources
- GitHub and Microsoft, including GitHub’s corporate parent, have joined the steering committee for MCP, Anthropic’s standard for connecting AI models to data sources.
- MCP allows models to access data from various sources like business tools, content repositories, and app development environments, facilitating two-way connections between data sources and AI applications.
- Microsoft and GitHub plan to provide broad first-party support for MCP across their platforms, with integrations for Windows expected in the near future, enabling developers to expose app functionalities to MCP-enabled models.
- Both Microsoft and GitHub are contributing to the MCP standard, with Microsoft focusing on enhancing authorization specs for secure connections and GitHub collaborating on a registry service for MCP servers to manage various MCP implementations.
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Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open-source
- Microsoft has made its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) open-source, allowing community contributions.
- The code for WSL is now available on GitHub, enabling developers to download, build, and improve it.
- WSL initially started in 2016 and has evolved to better support Linux kernel for optimal compatibility.
- Microsoft's move to open-source WSL aims to make Windows more developer-friendly and enhance WSL performance and integration.
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Windows is getting support for the ‘USB-C of AI apps’
- Microsoft is adding support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) in Windows, aiming to enable automated AI agents assisting users.
- MCP, likened to the 'USB-C port of AI' apps, allows AI apps to communicate with various platforms, including Windows.
- Windows chief Pavan Davuluri envisions a future where AI agents are integral to user interactions with devices and apps.
- Microsoft is introducing developer capabilities to enable AI agents to access key Windows functions via the MCP framework.
- MCP registry on Windows will serve as a secure source for MCP servers that AI agents can interact with.
- Microsoft demonstrated how AI apps like Perplexity on Windows can leverage MCP for enhanced user experiences.
- Security risks associated with MCP include potential token theft and server compromises, prompting cautious development by Microsoft.
- Microsoft is emphasizing security controls to ensure a safe MCP ecosystem and prevent malicious attacks.
- In addition to MCP, Microsoft is rebranding its AI platform in Windows as Windows AI Foundry, integrating various AI models.
- Windows ML within Windows AI Foundry aims to simplify app deployment by eliminating the need for ML runtimes or hardware providers.
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GitHub’s new AI coding agent can fix bugs for you
- GitHub has launched an AI coding agent integrated into GitHub Copilot to fix bugs, add features, and enhance documentation on behalf of developers.
- The AI coding agent automatically clones the repository, analyzes the codebase, makes changes while providing rationale in session logs, and tags developers for review.
- Similar AI coding agents have been released by Google (Jules) and OpenAI (ChatGPT's Codex), but GitHub's agent focuses on understanding task intent and project coding standards.
- The coding agent is available to Copilot Enterprise and Copilot Pro Plus users through GitHub's platform, mobile app, and Command Line Interface tool. Microsoft has also open-sourced GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code.
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Microsoft Build 2025: news and announcements from the developer conference
- Microsoft Build 2025 conference kicked off with a livestream featuring CEO Satya Nadella presenting the latest Windows, Office, and AI news.
- The conference includes in-depth sessions for developers covering features for Windows, Office, Azure, and more, with a focus on AI advancements.
- Notable announcements include opening on-device AI models to web apps, Microsoft Edge adding PDF translation, and the Windows Subsystem for Linux going open-source.
- Other highlights include support for AI apps on Windows, GitHub's AI coding agent for bug fixing, and Microsoft's plan to enable AI search on every website.
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