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Microsoft's language for defining APIs — write API contracts once, generate OpenAPI / JSON Schema / Protobuf and server/client code.

Microsoft's code-first stack for building, observing, and deploying distributed .NET apps — orchestration, service discovery, and dashboards in one package.

Microsoft's prompt and KV-cache compression for LLMs — up to 20x compression with minimal accuracy loss for cheaper, faster inference.

Microsoft's official C/C++ extension for VS Code — IntelliSense, debugging, code navigation, and toolchain integration.

Microsoft's reference architecture for placing AI-powered phone calls — your bot dials out (or callers dial in) and an LLM drives the conversation.

Microsoft Research's structured 3D latent diffusion model for scalable 3D asset generation from text or images. CVPR 2025 Spotlight.

Microsoft's open-source framework for detecting, redacting, masking, and anonymizing PII in text and images.

Microsoft Research's experimental agent that operates across the browser and local filesystem in tandem — a step toward general-purpose computer-use agents.

Python bindings for Playwright — Microsoft's cross-browser end-to-end testing framework with auto-wait and tracing.

Microsoft's IDE-style autocomplete for the terminal — ports Fig completion specs into a cross-shell command-line helper.

Microsoft Research's AI-assisted visualization tool — describe the chart you want in plain English, drag fields in, and it generates the data transforms and renders the visualization.

Microsoft's toolkit for building, testing, and deploying high-quality LLM applications — visual orchestration, tracing, and prompt evaluation.

Microsoft Research's LLM-powered multi-agent persona simulation — populate scenarios with synthetic users for product research and creative brainstorming.

CLI for common Playwright actions — record browser interactions and have it generate the Playwright code that reproduces them.

Microsoft's library for building natural language interfaces using TypeScript types — LLMs respond in JSON conforming to your schema.

Microsoft Research's multi-agent Windows automation framework — UI-Focused agents (UFO3) that coordinate to operate Windows apps.

Microsoft's adaptive interface system — design tokens, components, and tooling for building modern web experiences with web components.

Microsoft's fast static type checker for Python — also powers the Pylance language server in VS Code.

Microsoft's reference implementation of Low-Rank Adaptation — efficient fine-tuning that trains a tiny number of parameters per task.

Microsoft's interactive data-visualization tool — explore datasets through animated unit charts that group, sort, and filter on the fly.

Microsoft's SDK for integrating LLMs into apps with planners, memory, plugins, and orchestration across C#, Python, and Java.

Microsoft's framework for building multi-agent AI applications, with support for code execution, function calling, and conversational orchestration.

Microsoft's typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript, adding static types and modern language features.

Cross-browser end-to-end testing framework from Microsoft, with a single API for Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit and built-in auto-wait.

Microsoft's compatibility layer for running Linux binaries natively on Windows, with full kernel support, GUI app integration, and tight Windows interop.

The browser-based code editor that powers VS Code, packaged for embedding in web apps with syntax highlighting and IntelliSense.

Microsoft's official inference framework for 1-bit LLMs — runs large language models with extreme memory and energy efficiency.

Microsoft's React and web component library implementing the Fluent Design System — used in Office, Teams, and Microsoft 365.

Microsoft's screen-parsing model that turns UI screenshots into structured element data — the perception layer for pure-vision GUI agents.

Free, open-source code editor from Microsoft with a rich extension ecosystem, debugging, and integrated Git.

Modern terminal for Windows with tabs, Unicode/UTF-8, GPU-accelerated rendering, and support for PowerShell, WSL, and cmd.

Microsoft's modular graph-based retrieval-augmented generation system, building knowledge graphs from documents for richer LLM Q&A.

Microsoft PowerToys Microsoft PowerToys is a collection of utilities that help you customize Windows and streamline everyday tasks. Installation · Documentation · Blog · Release notes 🔨 Utilities PowerToys includes over 30 utilities to help you customize and optimize your Windows experience: | | | | | --- | --- | --- | | Advanced Paste | Always on Top | Awake | | Color Picker | Command Not Found | Command Palette | | Crop And Lock | Environment Variables | FancyZones | | File Explorer Add-ons |

Microsoft's MCP server for Playwright. Lets agents drive a browser via tool calls.

A comprehensive multi-language framework for building, orchestrating, and deploying AI agents and multi-agent workflows. Supports both Python and .NET with features like graph-based workflows, observability, and multiple LLM providers.

A Python utility that converts various file formats (PDFs, Office documents, images, audio, HTML, etc.) into clean Markdown text optimized for AI and text analysis pipelines. Preserves document structure while making content easily consumable by LLMs.

Open-source voice AI framework that includes advanced speech recognition (ASR) for 60-minute audio transcription with speaker diarization, text-to-speech (TTS) for 90-minute multi-speaker synthesis, and real-time streaming TTS. Operates at ultra-low 7.5Hz frame rate for efficient long-form audio processing.

A framework for training and optimizing AI agents using reinforcement learning and other algorithms. Supports any agent framework with minimal code changes and enables selective optimization of multi-agent systems.

Microsoft's curated collection of prompt-engineering best practices, techniques, and benchmarks — distilled lessons from running LLMs at scale.