Updated: July 6, 2026 (July 17, 2025)
RoadmapApplication Platforms Roadmap
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The Application Platforms Roadmap describes the components, services, and on-premises software for creating and deploying applications. The Roadmap is divided into chapters for each major functional area that are broken into reports on individual products and services:
The IDEs and ALM chapter discusses hosted and on-premises integrated development environments (IDEs) and application lifecycle management tools that IT development teams use to create, maintain, test, and deploy applications for various environments.
This chapter includes the following:
The AI Dev Tools chapter includes platforms and services for building AI-based applications.
This chapter includes the following:
The Frameworks and APIs chapter includes components for writing application code.
This chapter includes the following:
- .NET
- Other Runtime & APIs (Windows App SDK, UWP, Office Add-ins)
- API Management
The DevOps and Test chapter includes services that help with development and testing processes.
This chapter includes the following:
The Deployment chapter includes services that are used for development and production application deployment.
This chapter includes the following:
The App Functionality chapter includes services that developers use to drive application features and configuration.
This chapter includes the following:
The App Integration chapter includes services that implement workflows that can connect to external applications and services that connect applications across the Internet and between on-premises deployments and the Internet, enabling, for example, business-to-business commerce transaction automation. This chapter also includes services for working with IoT solutions and hardware.
This chapter includes the following:
The Power Platform chapter includes services that are part of Power Platform, which focus on simplifying creating and publishing line-of-business (LOB) processes and access to and modification of organizational data from all sources.
This chapter includes the following:
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