As more organizations configure MCP servers to support agent-to-agent communication, upfront strategy, nonfunctional requirements, and security non-negotiables will guide safer deployments.

Microsoft has released version 1.0 of the official MCP C# SDK, bringing full support for the 2025-11-25 MCP Specification. The release introduces enhanced authorization flows, icon support for tools ...

MCP, short for Model Context Protocol, allows AI assistants like Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s ChatGPT to directly connect with the apps and retrieve real-time information. This allows any AI ...

Microsoft's new Azure Skills Plugin bundles curated Azure skills, the Azure MCP Server, and the Foundry MCP Server into a single install that gives AI coding agents both the expertise and execution ...

Microsoft's AI Toolkit extension for VS Code now lets developers scaffold a working MCP server in minutes. Here's what that looks like in practice -- including the parts that don't work, and a simpler ...

A fascinating proof-of-concept shows how CAD could be done via AI in the future. Today we’ve seen AI tools enter the 3D modeling space with either text-to-3D or image-to-3D solutions. Text or images ...