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Frontier models and production agents: Advancing Microsoft Foundry for the agentic era
13 Jul 2026
Introducing OpenAI's latest frontier model series, the Asia Pacific Data Zone, and product agent capabilities, all generally available in Microsoft Foundry. The post Frontier models and production age
Built to bounce back: How Azure resiliency evolved
13 Jul 2026
Cloud resiliency is about ensuring systems can adapt, recover, and keep functioning within real-world constraints. The post Built to bounce back: How Azure resiliency evolved appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.
External key management for Azure Managed HSM is now in public preview
13 Jul 2026
Azure Key Vault Managed Hardware Security Module (HSM) provides strong sovereignty over your encryption keys. Keys are generated and stored in a single-tenant, FIPS 140-3 Level 3 HSM that only you con
Meet Brain: The AI system behind Azure reliability
13 Jul 2026
Learn how Microsoft is building a digital twin of Azure Service Health and why it changes how hyperscale operates. The post Meet Brain: The AI system behind Azure reliability appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.
Proving application resilience on Azure with Chaos Studio
13 Jul 2026
Azure Chaos Studio helps organizations validate application resilience by simulating outages, failovers, network disruptions, and infrastructure failures before they impact production. The post Provin
Azure IaaS: How to design, build, and optimize cloud infrastructure for long-term cost efficiency
13 Jul 2026
As organizations modernize infrastructure, migrate mission-critical workloads, build cloud-native applications, and scale AI—cost efficiency remains a foundational principle of cloud architectures. Th
Claude in Microsoft Foundry is now generally available
13 Jul 2026
Claude in Microsoft Foundry is now generally available, hosted on Azure, and running on NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra, giving teams a faster path from agent experimentation to production. The post Clau
The 2026 Agent Confidence Index: Where 300 builders see real momentum
13 Jul 2026
At Microsoft, building trustworthy AI agents is as critical as building powerful ones. New research from the 2026 Agent Confidence Index shows where teams trust agents today—and why human judgment rem
Accelerate modern Linux workloads with Azure Files
13 Jul 2026
Azure Files combines familiar file access with built-in performance, data protection, security, and Azure service integration. The post Accelerate modern Linux workloads with Azure Files appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.
The performance dividend: Optimizing PostgreSQL on Azure directly in Visual Studio Code
13 Jul 2026
Poor database performance is never just a database problem. In enterprise teams, it shows up as missed SLAs, delayed releases, frustrated development teams, and rising operational risk. The performanc
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Typewriters, the office machines that preceded computers
By Kiron Kasbekar | 10 Apr 2025
You see office tables today equipped with desktop computers or laptops. But think of the 1970s, and what would you have been seeing?
Wishful thinking about cars
By Kiron Kasbekar | 05 Apr 2025
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The history of safety glass
By Kiron Kasbekar | 26 Mar 2025
You probably already knew that the world’s VIPs move around in cars with bullet-proof glass windscreen and windows. But did you know that ‘bulletproof glass’ is not really bulletproof?
German silver: used in cutlery, music, electricals - but it’s not silver
By Kiron Kasbekar | 20 Mar 2025
This material, which was first developed in China, not Germany, and is an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc, has lost its sheen in home uses, but finds favor in electrical engineering.
Pioneers – the Wrights and Glenn Curtiss launched the aircraft industry
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
First Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their plane, the ‘Wright Flyer’, from near a small town called Kitty Hawk. Then Glenn Curtiss built planes with a very different system of controls, which has lasted until now.
What do aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles?
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
From chains and sprockets to direct drives—If someone asked you what aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles, how would you respond?
Radar’s ancestors: From sound mirrors to modern detection technology
By Kiron Kasbekar | 11 Mar 2025
Radar has become a well-settled technology today, especially in the field of navigation.
Nokia Bell Labs: innovations in communication, computing, technology
By Omar Almeida | 08 Mar 2025
Bell Laboratories, or Bell labs, which has now become Nokia Bell Labs, is one of the most renowned research and development organizations in the history of science and technology.
Company story – Quaker Oats
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
