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The latest Microsoft Foundry coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Microsoft’s GPT-4o Retirement Countdown Is Already Ticking—Here’s Your Migration Playbook
Microsoft has started blocking new deployments of GPT-4o and GPT-4o-mini on Azure Foundry, months ahead of the October 1, 2026 retirement deadline. For teams still planning their migrations, the...
Voice Commands Are Changing: What the Azure Custom Commands Retirement Means for Windows Automation
Microsoft has set a retirement date for Azure Custom Commands: September 19, 2026. That gives teams who rely on voice-driven Windows automation roughly two months to find every dependency, pick a...
Microsoft Sets August 2026 Deadline to Retire Assistants API, Pushing Azure AI Developers to Foundry Agents
Microsoft has given developers a firm deadline: migrate any application dependent on the Azure OpenAI Assistants API before August 26, 2026, or face service disruption. The retirement, confirmed this...
Nadella Calls Out Claude Fable 5's Unpredictable Safeguards — Why Enterprise AI Demands More
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has publicly criticized Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 for behaving more like a censored publication than a productivity tool, calling its unpredictable refusals...
Microsoft’s New Playbook for Faster AI Apps: Why Your Model Isn’t the Bottleneck
On July 16, 2026, Microsoft for Startups released a playbook that flips a common AI development instinct on its head. Instead of swapping out models when apps feel sluggish, the guide argues that...
Microsoft Advisory: Claude Fable 5’s 30-Day Data Retention Puts Enterprise Rollouts on Ice
Microsoft has issued a blunt advisory to customers of its Azure AI Foundry platform: the newly available Claude Fable 5 model logs and retains all prompts and completions for at least 30 days,...
AI Agents That Run for Days: Microsoft Foundry’s Managed Hosting Goes Live
Microsoft moved its hosted agent service to general availability this week, giving developers a managed runtime for AI workflows that need hours, days, or weeks to complete. The release, part of...
Microsoft Brings Claude 3.5 to Azure AI Foundry — No Separate Anthropic Account Needed
Microsoft has added Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 family to Azure AI Foundry, letting enterprises evaluate and deploy the large language model directly from their Azure portal — without signing up for a...
No Internet Required: Microsoft’s Phi-4-mini Powers Offline AI Assistants in Future Cars
FEV and Microsoft revealed this week that they are running Microsoft’s Phi-4-mini-instruct language model directly on NVIDIA DRIVE AGX in-vehicle computers, enabling generative AI features that...
Microsoft Pilots Agent ROI Dashboard in Foundry, Forms Copilot Hits Global Availability
Microsoft on July 8, 2026, commenced a private preview for a new ROI tracking dashboard within Microsoft Foundry, designed to measure the business value of AI agents. Simultaneously, Microsoft Forms...
Claude on Azure: GA on NVIDIA GB300 Brings Governed AI Agents to Windows Enterprise
Anthropic’s Claude models reached general availability in Microsoft Foundry on June 29, 2026, marking a pivotal moment for Windows enterprises that have been waiting for a safety-focused,...
Beyond Now’s Wave AI Integrates with Microsoft Foundry to Monetize Agentic AI for Telcos
Communications service providers (CSPs) are poised to turn artificial intelligence from a cost center into a revenue stream. On June 24, 2026, Beyond Now announced a major expansion of its Wave AI...