Azure Weekly

Issue #529 - 31st August 2025

Firstly, it is worth highlighting that registration for Microsoft Ignite is now open. Then, we have a few updates and announcements: In Azure Foundry, The Responses API is now generally available. Here are the latest GA Azure SQL updates. The Visual Studio August Update is here - providing smarter AI, better debugging, and more control, and this is the Roadmap for AI in Visual Studio - September.

BYO Model + MCP in Visual Studio Copilot is now generally available, and here is the August 2025 Fabric Feature Summary! Elsewhere, Shreyan Fern provides a great introduction to POML: The Markup Language for Prompts. On the Microsoft Security blog, Igor Sakhnov discusses Securing and governing the rise of autonomous agents, and, Rob Lefferts highlights that Microsoft has ranked number one in modern endpoint security market share third year in a row.

Continuing a bit of a trend from this year, here are some great examples of Agentic AI in Healthcare. And finally, an interesting look at Why Databricks Is Worth $100 Billion.

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⚙️ Azure Virtual Desktop

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