AI & Machine Learning

New! Maia 200 Aims to Lower AI Inference Costs February 5, 2026 The new generation of Microsoft custom AI silicon offers better price/performance for large-scale inference. It’s...more Microsoft IQ: Look at the Details, Not the Branding January 24, 2026 Microsoft IQ is a marketing term, not a product. It encompasses a combination of new...more Work IQ Models Work for Microsoft 365 Copilot January 22, 2026 Work IQ is the latest service to analyze Microsoft 365 tenant data for work patterns...more M365 Copilot Adds Choice (and Risk) with Anthropic’s Claude January 20, 2026 Microsoft has partnered with Anthropic, adding its Claude models to Microsoft 365 Copilot (M365 Copilot)....more Foundry Gets New Name, Anthropic Models January 12, 2026 Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft’s Web-based tool for professional developers building AI-powered applications and agents, is...more Visual Studio 2026 Smooths AI Integration, First of Annual Releases Updated: January 11, 2026 Visual Studio 2026, Microsoft’s flagship development product, became generally available in Nov. 2025, and major...more Executive Focus: Valuing M365 Copilot   January 6, 2026 Assessing the ROI of M365 Copilot is difficult; but AI could soon be like e-mail—a...more Azure Copilot Agents Simplify Azure Operation, Optimization December 14, 2025 The Azure portal has had a Copilot for more than a year, but it has...more How Microsoft’s New Agent Pricing Option Affects Costs Updated: December 5, 2025 A new upfront purchasing option for agents provides discounts over pay-as-you-go billing. The new option...more Understanding Pay as You Go Billing for M365 Copilot “Lite” Agents December 4, 2025 Pay as you go (PAYG) billing for M365 Copilot services, which include M365 Copilot Chat...more The Microsoftification of GitHub Updated: November 30, 2025 Microsoft organizational changes suggest that GitHub will receive more direct Microsoft control and oversight. The...more Agent 365: Microsoft Attempts to Herd Your AI Agents November 24, 2025 Microsoft Agent 365 offers a new set of capabilities that seeks to help organizations improve...more GitHub Agent HQ Brings Agent Governance, Third-Party Support Updated: November 17, 2025 Microsoft delivered GitHub Agent HQ in Oct. 2025, bringing a unified platform for developer agents...more Image Analysis Service Retiring November 10, 2025 The Image Analysis service within Azure AI Vision will be retired on Sept. 25, 2028. SharePoint Knowledge Agent: A Boon for Content Management (with Caveats) October 28, 2025 Knowledge Agent can simplify the challenges of maintaining SharePoint Online document libraries and Web content....more Deciphering Copilot Studio Licensing Updated: October 19, 2025 The licensing model for Copilot Studio has been in flux with changes arriving regularly throughout...more

GitHub Copilot Tier Comparison June 3, 2025 Navigating Microsoft’s Copilots Updated: May 11, 2025

  Product Reference Microsoft 365 Copilot New M365 Copilot features and Anthropic. Copilot Chat is moved to its own Product entry.   Product Reference Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat M365 Copilot Chat (unlicensed) is separated from M365 Copilot (licensed)   Licensing Reference Copilot Studio Copilot Studio provides makers (also known as citizen developers) with low-code tools to build agents...more   Product Reference Microsoft Foundry Microsoft Foundry is a Web-based development tool for professional developers to create, test, and deploy...more   Product Reference AI Services Azure AI Services are a collection of cloud services enabling developers to add specific artificial...more   Product Reference Fabric Overview Microsoft Fabric is a data and analytics cloud service that simplifies the deployment and use...more   Product Reference OneLake OneLake is the core data management component in Microsoft Fabric. It can host and query...more   Product Reference Fabric Data Engineering Fabric Data Engineering, one of the main Fabric experiences, provides an environment where data engineers...more   Product Reference Fabric Data Science Fabric Data Science, one of the main Fabric experiences, provides an environment where data scientists...more   Product Reference AI Vision   Product Reference AI Translator   Product Reference AI Speech AI Speech is a cloud service, covered in the collection of AI Services.   Product Reference AI Language AI Language is a cloud service, covered in the collection of AI Services.   Product Reference AI Content Safety AI Content Safety is a cloud service, covered in the collection of AI Services.   Product Reference AI Bot Services AI Bot Services is a cloud service, covered in the collection of AI Services.   Product Reference AI Document Intelligence AI Document Intelligence is a cloud service, covered in the collection of AI Services.

Database, Analytics, and AI/ML Roadmap

Copilot   Fabric