Microsoft ships Agent Framework 1.0 but Azure's agent stack still spans too many surfaces while Google and AWS offer cleaner developer paths.

Ask any Python developer about their least favorite part of the job, and environment management will top the list. The endless juggling of virtual environments, dependency conflicts, and version ...

Microsoft has released version 1.0 of its open-source Agent Framework, positioning it as the production-ready evolution of the project introduced in October 2025 by combining Semantic Kernel ...

Pyjion, a just-in-time (JIT) compilation system for Python that compiles to the .NET 6 runtime, is now available in a 1.0 version. Pronounced “pigeon,” and developed by Python Software Foundation ...

Ever wished you could do more with Microsoft Excel? Microsoft just announced the release of a public preview of Python in Excel, which would allow users to add Python code directly into a spreadsheet.

A new open source Microsoft project, Pyjion, improves the Python language’s speed by augmenting its stock interpreter with a JIT derived from Microsoft’s CoreCLR project. Python’s standard-issue ...