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June 18, 2025
OpenAI-Microsoft tensions escalate over control and contracts
OpenAI reportedly wants to scale back Microsoft's exclusive control over hosting its AI models.
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Global Microsoft 365 outage disrupts Teams and Exchange services
Aggressive traffic rerouting blamed for service failures; experts warn of architectural brittleness and rising cloud fragility.
Visual Studio Code bolsters MCP support
Latest VS Code release improves AI agent integration with backing for Model Context Protocol server prompts, resources, sampling, and authorization.
.NET 10 Preview 5 highlights C# 14, runtime improvements
The latest .NET preview release includes user-defined compound assignment operators for C# 14 and an extension to JIT compiler escape analysis in the .NET runtime.
How to use frozen collections in C#
The FrozenSet and FrozenDictionary classes introduced in .NET 8 are immutable collections optimized for fast look-ups. Hereâs how to take advantage of them.
Use geospatial data in Azure with Planetary Computer Pro
Microsoft is bringing its science-focused geospatial data platform to the enterprise, ready to provide insights to solution developers and data scientists.
