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PostgreSQL enters its AI era: Run PostgreSQL like a pro in the era of AI and rapid growth

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More and more, businesses are turning to open-source tools as a strategic choice to future-proof their ecosystems rather than an affordable alternative. Increasingly, our customers are selecting PostgreSQL as a first-choice migration destination for building new, intelligent applications. Three converging forces have driven this shift: the explosion of AI workloads, cost pressures, and the need for the portability and extensibility favored for cloud-native architectures.

The evidence is everywhere. As requirements have moved beyond basic availability, Postgres continues to deliver. Postgres is the powerhouse behind everything from rapidly scaling AI apps to Fortune 500 modernization initiatives. It supports OpenAI’s 800 million ChatGPT users, and enterprises like PTC moved their databases to Azure Database for PostgreSQL for flexibility, cost optimization, and performance.

Whether it’s extensibility to support vector search, embeddings and retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, or global read distribution, leaders can be confident that Postgres can handle intelligent workloads and scale without sacrificing security, performance, reliability, or operational ease. Azure’s latest platform investments, including Premium SSD v2 storage and cascading read replicas, deliver foundational improvements that remove constraints and make it easier to run Postgres workloads regardless of size, stage, or level of expertise.

No more overprovisioning for higher throughput

Organizations have historically been forced to make difficult tradeoffs when it came to storage. IOPS and throughput are tied to disk size in traditional premium SSD architectures, meaning if you needed more IOPS and throughput, you’d have to provision bigger disks even if you didn’t need more storage. This cost-performance discrepancy is especially troubling for engineering leaders trying to justify spend.

Premium SSD v2, which is now generally available in Azure Database for PostgreSQL, solves that problem while enabling better performance. It decouples storage capacity, IOPS, and throughput into individually adjustable dimensions. You can right-size your infrastructure, configuring your servers with just the right amount of IOPS and storage you need to support your workloads without overprovisioning and overpaying. Additionally, you can make these configuration changes without downtime so you can adjust as your workloads evolve. You’re not tied to a decision—and a price—that works for your app today but might not be a fit tomorrow.

Our internal testing has already proven the benefits to performance and cost optimization. Benchmark results show a 279% improvement in performance and about 15ms reduction in latency under load compared to premium SSD. With monthly costs held stable, premium SSD v2 delivers up to 169% higher throughput. These are changes that will delight your CFO and users alike. We’re also offering a baseline performance tier for dev/test environments and startup workloads so you can keep costs low during these early phases without sacrificing performance predictability.

No more growth-induced performance bottlenecks

Read replicas have become common practice for global applications to offload read traffic across regions for lower latency and data residency compliance. In traditional configurations, each replica connects directly to the primary. However, as these global apps scale, bottlenecks can arise if the primary becomes overloaded from supporting many replicas. This would normally require complex configurations to resolve.

Azure is solving that problem with cascading read replicas. Intermediate replicas relay write-ahead logging to downstream replicas, creating multi-tier hierarchies. Organizations can now scale beyond 100 replicas without overwhelming the primary instance. OpenAI maintains near-zero replication lag with this approach at massive scale. That’s production-grade consistency for unpredictable read workloads like AI inference, analytics, and global SaaS platforms.

The use cases are practical. Multi-tenant SaaS platforms can serve customers in specific geographies with local read latency while maintaining centralized write authority. Disaster recovery deployments can keep cascading replicas in secondary regions without increasing primary-instance load. Data residency compliance becomes architecturally straightforward as you keep replicas in-country without adding operational complexity.

A mature infrastructure for professional workloads

Migrations come with inherent challenges and are sometimes compounded when considering a move to open source. For IT leaders evaluating a migration to PostgreSQL, they often cite concerns about performance gaps, operational maturity, and fear of hidden costs. However, what’s changed in 2026 is the maturity of the infrastructure supporting Postgres. New capabilities like Premium SSD v2 and cascading replicas reduce the risk of open source and improve readiness for AI workloads. Proven scale at 800 million users eliminates the “will it handle our workload?” question. Plus, the total cost of ownership advantage that comes with open source compounds over time as workloads grow. PTC’s migration from a proprietary database to Postgres delivered cost savings while improving developer productivity.

Keep betting on open source and run Postgres like the pros

Organizations are consolidating databases rather than proliferating them, so the strategic question is no longer about optimizing for today’s constraints. It’s now about building on the platform that will support the next decade of growth. PostgreSQL’s extensibility backed by Azure makes it a viable platform choice. The Premium SSD v2 and cascading read replica announcements signal continued platform investment, not just version support stagnation.

What this enables for the Postgres community is meaningful. AI workloads can use native vector search and embeddings without separate vector databases. Global applications get low-latency read access across regions with operational simplicity. Cost remains predictable because infrastructure scales with business needs rather than forcing upfront overprovisioning. PostgreSQL’s versatility is proven across retail, industrial IoT, and SaaS platforms. The infrastructure is ready, the operational maturity is real, and the economics finally align with how teams actually want to build and scale applications.

To learn more, check out the PostgreSQL Like a Pro video series for technical deep dives on AI workloads, performance optimization, migration strategies, and scaling with PostgreSQL.

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13 CTOs walk into a bar and realize: There is no best AI adoption strategy

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AI is a blessing for some, but a headache for everyone else. 

That was one of the clearest takeaways from our CTO dinner in London, where my colleague Ivan Brezak Brkan IBB (Developer Experience Director, Infobip) and I hosted a dinner with CTOs from a dozen great engineering organizations. 

Not that I didn’t suspect it, but hearing it out loud, black and white, makes your assumptions impossible to ignore. 

For some, AI is putting the fun back into coding. For others? Welcome to AI shaming. Champions are treated like heroes; skeptics get rolled over, dismissed, or quietly frowned upon. 

Oh, to finally build again! 

As our conversation made clear, it’s no surprise that leaders and C-level execs are more excited about AI than most employees. But that excitement isn’t always about business – sometimes it’s just curiosity, fascination, or even fun. 

And I was struck by how many participants talked about the sheer joy of working with AI, finally getting to build again instead of just managing others. 

AI has allowed leaders and CTOs to bypass the so-called “atrophy” of framework-specific knowledge, letting them focus on problem-solving and architecture.  

In practice, this means more time is spent creating ideas and prototyping, rather than learning the specific technologies needed to build things. One participant noted: 

I’d say there’s a bunch of things I always wanted to do but never had time for. I’d either have to get someone else to solve the problem or just live with it. 

Now, if I’ve got an itch I want to scratch, I can build it myself. That freedom to solve my own problems also means I can solve more problems for others. 

On the topic of prototyping, multiple participants agreed that tasks that used to take several days now take just a couple of hours. This allows leaders to experiment and prototype their own ideas without overloading their engineering teams. 

And so far, so good. 

Using AI across the organization sounds like a no-brainer: ideas flow, everyone’s impressed at the speed of routine work, and it feels like you’re on the right track. But then it hits you –you haven’t really thought about the people who are actually writing and reviewing the code.

Foto: Marko Mudrinić

AI shame, shame, shame 

While many companies (especially Infobip) actively encourage the use of AI tools in the workplace, an unavoidable “AI stigma” still hangs over the tech space. 

This fear often comes from worrying about being perceived as incompetent – or as someone leaning on AI for work they’re “supposed” to do themselves. 

We concluded that you could approach it in one of two ways: 

  1. Embrace the early Facebook mantra: “Move fast and break things.”  
  1. Pause regularly to ensure that the “break things” part isn’t causing too much damage. 

The participants of the dinner echoed these statements, with one participant mentioning an example where a pull request was not reviewed because “it looked like AI-driven code”: 

One of my engineers was helping an ML engineer make a change in the iOS app. They relied primarily on Claude Code to write it but worked closely with the iOS engineer to test everything thoroughly. They checked and refined the code wherever necessary.

However, when the change was submitted for code review to the team that owned this codebase, it was immediately rejected, with the assumption that the authors hadn’t tested anything beforehand. 

I believe there’s no single right or wrong way to approach this. Being overly zealous about AI has its drawbacks: teams may resist because they feel pressured. On the other hand, being too conservative risks falling behind, arriving late to the AI party, and scrambling while competitors are already there, relaxed and sipping champagne. 
 
We all know that in the AI world there’re no universal playbook. What worked in some cases (rushing to full engineering adoption) might be a masterstroke for one organization and a disaster for another. 

At the dinner, participants pushed back on the very definition of “AI usage.” Is it opening a tool once a week? Using it daily? Or only when it actually changes how work gets done? Turning employees into internal AI Ambassadors, where colleagues help each other was one of the more promising ideas around the table. 

Foto: Marko Mudrinić

The foundation is laid. Now what?  

For us at Infobip, this conversation was something we’ve been living for a while now. We held hackathons, organized education programs, and made moves in infrastructure and security. This made adopting tools like Claude as easy as possible. We’re now at a point where over 80% of the company uses AI tools daily. 

But here’s what the dinner made me think about: the subjective experience and the data don’t always agree. When we talk with our engineers, they report feeling more productive. But when we look at DORA metrics or business outcomes, the improvement isn’t easy to correlate. 

The funny thing is that everyone feels more productive and energized, but it’s hard to put a finger on the exact metric.  

And if the dinner told us anything, it’s that we’re not the only ones thinking about that gap.  

Which brings me to the real takeaway: we’re entering a new phase, where it’s important to make AI usage count. That means top-down initiatives that change how teams work, including bringing non-technical teams in more. 

There might not be a “best” AI adoption strategy. But for those of us who’ve got adoption off the ground, the question is no longer quantity – it’s quality. 

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What's New in Microsoft Teams | April 2026

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Our team just wrapped up the M365 Community Conference in Orlando, FL, and it was an incredible way to close out April! Our teams were energized by connecting with, listening to, and sharing what’s new with many of you: the builders, innovators and icons of intelligent work. Thank you to everyone who attended, and we can’t wait to see even more of you at next year’s conference!

As for this month’s Teams updates, we remain focused on bringing you features that can make collaboration more intelligent, secure, and seamless—whether you’re working with AI, managing calls, or enabling hybrid teams at scale.

Across meetings, calling, and the workplace, you’ll find improvements designed to remove friction, from smarter call handling with Copilot call delegation, to Interpreter agent enhancements that support proper attribution for sign-language users in meetings, and updated room booking and live transcription in meetings in Teams Rooms.

In another new update, Targeted messages for agents now enables your agents and bots to send targeted, private, temporary updates to specific users in chats, channels, and meetings, without interrupting everyone else.

We’re also delivering meaningful security and compliance enhancements, including sensitivity label inheritance for meeting recordings and Loop notes, improved admin visibility into external collaboration risks, and new user‑reported security signals in the Teams admin center. These updates help organizations protect information end to end, without slowing down teamwork.

Together, these updates reflect our continued focus on helping teams collaborate more effectively, confidently, and securely—every day. Read on for all the latest updates!

Feature categories: (All features listed are generally available unless otherwise noted)

Chat and Collaboration

Meetings

Teams Phone

Workplace

Fundamentals and Security

Platform

Frontline Workers

Certified for Teams Devices

Chat and Collaboration

Targeted messages for agents on Teams

Send private, targeted messages from agents or bots to a specific person in a channel, group chat, or meeting—without distracting everyone else. Agents can share timely prompts, reminders, or next steps only with the people who need them, keeping conversations focused and clutter-free. As situations change, agents can update or remove these messages so guidance stays relevant and accurate. To enable targeted messaging for agents visit this page: Targeted Messages - Teams | Microsoft Learn

 

Simplified Teams app bar

The Teams app bar has been simplified to help you focus on what matters. App labels are hidden by default to reduce visual noise, the overflow menu is less cluttered, and you can now choose to show or hide the app bar to create more space for your work.

 

New controls for quick views in the Teams chat list 

Positioned at the top of the chat and channels list in Teams, quick view controls provide fast access to mentions, followed threads, and more. You can choose when and how quick views are displayed – and can collapse the section at any time.

 

Experts & verified answers in communities

Help community members quickly identify trusted responses with Community Experts and verified answers. In the Engage app for Android and the Engage app in Teams for iOS and Android, members can request expert status, which admins can review and assign. Approved experts are highlighted with a special label next to their names and, along with admins, can endorse accurate and credible responses. Once marked, these responses receive a “verified” label, making it easy for viewers to recognize correct answers and rely on trusted expertise across community conversations.

 

Microsoft Viva: Engage community membership management in Teams for iOS & Android

Manage your communities on the go. Community admins can now add or remove members directly from the Teams mobile app on iOS and Android. Keep your Viva Engage communities up to date—anytime, anywhere.

Meetings

Consecutive interpretation in Interpreter agent

Consecutive interpretation is a new mode in Microsoft Teams Interpreter that helps participants collaborate more naturally in meetings with two spoken languages.

With consecutive interpretation, the translation begins after each speaker finishes speaking. This creates a turn-based flow that more closely reflects how people naturally communicate in multilingual conversations. In addition, consecutive interpretation brings Interpreter onto the meeting stage for everyone to see and hear, making it easier to follow, participate, and stay aligned. With this update, Interpreter now supports two modes: real-time simultaneous interpretation, launched last year, and the new consecutive interpretation mode designed for back-and-forth conversations—now available in public preview.

 

Accurate transcript attribution for meetings with sign language interpreters

Transcripts now attribute contributions to the original participant using sign language, not the interpreter. This ensures ideas and decisions are correctly credited to the person who shared them, including in Copilot chat and meeting recap.

Spoken language detection is now automatic

Spoken language detection is now fully automatic. Teams will automatically detect each speaker’s spoken language and update it in real time as the conversation evolves. Manual spoken language selection will no longer be available. This applies to both live captions and transcripts when Interpreter is enabled or when multilingual speech recognition is turned on in meeting options, helping deliver more accurate language recognition and a more consistent multilingual meeting experience.

 

Teams meeting Notes, powered by Loop

Teams meeting Notes, powered by Loop, are now available for instant meetings that started via ‘Meet now’ from the calendar. Notes are Loop components in Teams meetings and chats that allow end users to co-create and collaborate on their meeting agenda, notes, and action items that can be co-authored and edited by everyone. Since Notes are Loop components, they stay in sync across all the places they have been shared. Once added, meeting notes can also be shared and edited in the Loop app in your web browser.

 

Resize the top video gallery in Teams meetings to see more people when content is being shared.

Now you can resize the video gallery at the top of your meeting window when content is being shared, making it easy to see more participants alongside the presentation. Simply drag the divider between the shared content and the video gallery to adjust how much space each takes up. Whether you're in a small team sync or a large all-hands meeting, this gives you the flexibility to keep more faces visible while staying focused on what's being presented, helping everyone feel seen and engaged. Available on Windows desktop and Mac.

Teams Phone

Copilot call delegation - Frontier

Incoming calls don’t wait for a break in your day. Whether you’re leading a meeting or juggling back-to-back commitments, every new call creates the same dilemma: answer and risk losing momentum, or ignore it and risk missing something important. Microsoft 365 Copilot can now help answer your incoming Teams calls and schedule follow-up appointments on your behalf. After turning on the experience in the Teams Calls settings, call delegation gathers context from callers that it shares with you to help you decide whether to pick up. It can also set up follow-up appointments via Microsoft Bookings so that you remember to meet with the callers that matter most. This experience is available to users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license through Frontier early access program. Learn more about call delegation and the Frontier program.

 

Teams Phone user multi-line

Many organizations need a way for a single person to represent multiple departments or regions in calling without juggling different Teams accounts, devices, or complicated routing workarounds. Teams Phone user multi-line now enables Teams administrators to configure and assign up to 10 phone numbers to an individual user through Teams admin center. Supported across desktop and Teams phone devices, user multi-line is ideal for individuals who handle multiple roles or who call contacts across different geographies. For example, a communications director supporting both press relations and analyst relations can take inbound calls for either function and place outbound calls using the appropriate number, all within a unified Teams experience. Or a customer success manager covering North America and Europe can use dedicated regional numbers so that customers reach the right line and interact with a familiar local caller ID, helping build greater trust. Learn more.

Workplace - Rooms

Ad-hoc room reservation from Teams Rooms on Android console

With Teams Rooms on Android consoles, you can quickly book a meeting room for immediate use, helping to avoid scheduling conflicts and ensure uninterrupted spontaneous meetings. Available in Teams Rooms Pro-licensed rooms. Learn more.

 

Live transcription in Teams Rooms on Android

View and control live transcription during a meeting from a Teams Rooms on Android device. The real-time transcript includes speaker names and timestamp. You can adjust settings such as spoken language, translated language, and whether both original and translated transcripts are displayed side by side on the front of room display. This feature is available in Teams Rooms Pro. Learn more.

 

Digital signage in Teams Rooms on Android

As with Teams Rooms on Windows, IT Admins can now set up Teams Rooms on Android to show dynamic content on the front-of-room display when not in use. Configuration is available for tenant-wide and room-specific settings via the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal. The feature supports select third-party digital signage partners like Appspace and XOGO, and is included with Teams Rooms Pro. Learn more.

 

Fundamentals and Security

Sensitivity label inheritance for meeting recordings and Loop meeting notes

Meeting recordings and Loop meeting notes now automatically inherit your meeting’s sensitivity label. When admins enable label inheritance in the sensitivity label policy, any labeled meeting applies the same label to its MP4 recording and meeting notes, ensuring access controls and protections like data handling rules and encryption carry forward consistently. This also ensures that Copilot and agent responses based on transcripts and notes accurately reflect the meeting’s sensitivity, keeping confidential content protected end to end.

 

External Domains Anomalies Report

The External Domains Anomalies Report helps admins proactively identify unusual or risky interactions with external organizations in Microsoft Teams. By analyzing communication trends and detecting sudden spikes, new domains, or abnormal engagement patterns, it provides early visibility into potential data-sharing or security risks. As external collaboration continues to grow, this report offers admins actionable insights to protect their tenants while maintaining productive cross-organization collaboration. The report is available in the Teams Admin Center. It’s updated daily, and admins can select a time range to view (for example, the past 24 hours or past 7 days).

 

User reported security signals in Teams admin center

This update brings end‑user security reporting into Teams Admin Center. Admins can now view and download signals from messages users report as “a security concern” or “not a security concern” within TAC Protection reports, helping them identify trends and fine‑tune policies and responses.

 

Microsoft Teams VDI Optimization for Omnissa on Windows

Microsoft Teams has long supported Omnissa in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments; this feature advances that support by bringing Omnissa deployments onto Microsoft’s modern Teams VDI optimization architecture. With this update, organizations running Teams on Omnissa can take advantage of the new optimization to deliver improved performance, greater feature parity with the native desktop client, and a more reliable experience for meetings, audio, video, and screen sharing—while continuing to benefit from the centralized management, security, and scalability of VDI.

 

Trigger workflows from messages on Teams mobile (Android and iOS)

Users can now trigger Microsoft Teams workflows directly from a message on Teams mobile for Android and iOS, enabling common automation scenarios - such as approvals, notifications, or follow‑up actions - without switching devices or leaving the conversation. This update extends workflow message actions to mobile, improves UI reliability, and helps close parity gaps between desktop and mobile experiences for Teams workflows.

Prevent screen capture for iOS

Prevent screen capture is now available on the Microsoft Teams iOS app. When enabled, this setting helps protect your meeting by preventing the meeting window from being captured in screenshots.  This capability builds on the Prevent screen capture experience already available on Desktop Windows and Android mobile app, helping organizations apply more consistent protections across supported Teams clients when discussing confidential topics. Mac desktop, virtual desktop, and older clients aren't supported. People on these platforms will not be able to turn on their own video, share their screen, or see other's videos or shared screens.

 

Platform

Python support in the Microsoft Teams SDK

Teams SDK is now available in Python. With the Teams SDK, developers have a production‑ready foundation for building intelligent collaboration‑centric experiences directly within Microsoft Teams. And now, Python developers can take full advantage of that platform, using the same SDK surface that powers modern Teams apps and agents. You can learn more about the Python release of the Teams SDK in the Getting Started | Teams SDK documentation.

 

Frontline workers

Pilots 

Kickstart frontline innovation with the Frontline Hub in Teams admin center. Create pilots in just a few clicks—choose the capabilities you want to test, select workers and managers, and monitor adoption through real-time usage insights. With built-in management controls, you can easily iterate as you learn: adjust features, update participants, and expand channels—all without slowing down your rollout. 

 

Deploy at scale

Deploying Microsoft Teams to your frontline workforce is now faster and more seamless than ever. A new guided deployment experience in the Teams admin center lets you roll out a standardized Teams setup—whether you’re expanding a pilot or launching organization‑wide—in just a few steps. From one place, you can add frontline workers, organize them into teams, and apply a consistent pinned app configuration that updates automatically as your needs evolve.

Once deployed, the Frontline hub gives you centralized control to manage teams, adjust pinned apps across your entire frontline workforce, and monitor adoption with built‑in usage insights. This streamlined approach helps you scale confidently, maintain consistency, and keep every frontline worker connected with the tools they rely on.

 

Certified for Teams Devices

Cisco Express Install Solutions for Teams Rooms
Cisco Express Install solutions are fully integrated meeting room packages designed for fast, large‑scale deployment of Microsoft Teams Rooms. These Cisco‑certified bundles combine Cisco Room Bar or Room Bar Pro devices with Samsung commercial displays and Ashton Bentley freestanding mounts. Ergonomically designed for optimal camera angles and viewing height, the solutions deliver a consistent, familiar Teams Rooms experience across locations while enabling rapid global rollout with minimal on‑site effort.

Two bundles (each available in either First Light or Carbon color) feature the Cisco Room Bar package and are designed for huddle spaces, focus rooms, and small meeting rooms:

Two bundles (each available in either First Light or Carbon color) feature the Cisco Room Bar Pro package and are designed for small and mid-sized meeting rooms:

One bundle (available in either First Light or Carbon color) features the Cisco Room Kit EQ package and is designed for midsize, large, and extra-large meeting rooms:

 

Neat Express Install: TAA-Compliant Neat Board Pro with Heckler Stand
Neat Board Pro with the Heckler Stand is TAA compliant, making it easier for US federal government agencies, higher‑education institutions, and other public‑sector organizations to bring award‑winning video collaboration solutions into their workspaces. Together, they provide cutting‑edge audiovisual and AI‑driven capabilities—supporting high‑performance cameras, far‑field microphones, and immersive 4K touch experiences designed for medium to large spaces. Learn more.

Jabra Express Install: PanaCast 40 VBS Bundles (LG displays available in: 43″ / 50″ / 55″ / 65″)
The Jabra PanaCast 40 VBS teams up with Salamander Designs Acadia Tabletop Stand and LG 4K UHD displays to transform huddle rooms, focus rooms, and small meeting spaces into smart collaboration zones—fast. With panoramic video, intelligent audio, and clean cable management, this Express Install bundle is designed for sub‑90‑minute installation with no wall drilling or rewiring required. It’s a true plug‑and‑play Teams Rooms solution that’s easy to deploy, simple to manage, and ready for AI‑powered productivity. Learn more.

Jabra PanaCast 40 VBS + Control IP
PanaCast 40 VBS brings everyone into the picture with its 180° field‑of‑view and 4K precision—capturing every participant clearly, even those close to the screen or seated in the corners. AI‑powered video features track speakers, adjust views, and keep conversations natural for more productive meetings. Setup is quick, so rooms are ready in minutes. Built on the Microsoft Device Ecosystem Platform for robust security, and managed through Jabra+, it enables remote, real‑time device updates to keep collaboration seamless. Learn more.

 

MAXHUB XBoard V7 (Display available in 55″ and 75″)
The MAXHUB XBoard for Microsoft Teams Rooms is a Teams‑certified interactive display running Windows 11 IoT that delivers an all‑in‑one solution for meeting rooms and open spaces. Its Trident Lens triple‑camera system ensures clear, dynamic video calls, while Audio Fence technology filters background noise for crisp communication. With a high‑color‑gamut 4K/5K non‑glare display, flexible sizing, optional on‑seat touch console, and remote device management via MAXHUB Pivot, XBoard V7 offers a reliable, scalable collaboration experience with easy plug‑and‑play setup and a three‑year warranty. Learn more.

 

MAXHUB Universal Console TCP33T
MAXHUB Universal Console TCP33T is a Teams Rooms‑certified touch console designed for Microsoft Surface Hub and MAXHUB XBoard. It allows users to join meetings, invite participants, control meetings, and share content without leaving their seats—supporting smooth, focused, and efficient collaboration across meeting spaces. Learn more.

 

MAXHUB XBar V70 Kit
The MAXHUB XBar V70 Kit with console is a Teams‑certified videobar built on MDEP Android and designed for medium to large meeting rooms. It features a 200‑megapixel quad‑lens camera system, 16 beamforming microphones, AI‑enhanced audio, and FlexMount for simple installation. Built on Microsoft‑certified Android security architecture, the solution enables secure Teams integration, streamlined deployment, and remote device management through MAXHUB Pivot, with included service coverage to simplify ongoing IT operations. Learn more.

 

Barco ClickShare Hub Pro and Huddly ®C1™ for Teams Rooms on Android

The ClickShare Hub Pro and Huddly C1 bundle is a certified Microsoft Teams Rooms solution for small‑to‑medium meeting rooms. ClickShare Hub Pro enables one‑click, wireless conferencing and 4K content sharing with next‑generation ClickShare Buttons and dual‑screen support, all built on the Microsoft Device Ecosystem Platform for secure meetings. Huddly C1 adds modular, AI‑driven video and intelligent audio that scales from standalone to multi‑camera setups—delivering engaging meetings for participants and flexible, enterprise‑grade management for IT teams. Learn More

Yealink UH42 / UH44 and WH68 Headsets
Yealink expanded its portfolio of Teams‑certified headsets with wired UH42 and UH44 models and the WH68 Hybrid headset with charging stand. These devices are designed for professional use across open offices and hybrid work scenarios, offering clear audio, comfortable form factors for all‑day wear, and flexible connectivity options to support modern Teams calling and meetings.

 

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Zero to Blazor Apps with GitHub Copilot | Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 2026

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Getting started with Blazor is one thing—building real apps quickly with AI is another. In this session from Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 2026, Alan Conway walks through how to go from zero to a working Blazor application using GitHub Copilot.

See how Copilot fits directly into your development workflow to scaffold apps, explore Blazor project options, and accelerate everyday coding tasks. This session also highlights an important theme: AI can speed you up significantly, but developer judgment and context still matter.

🔑 What You’ll Learn
• Getting started with Blazor using modern project templates
• Using GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio and VS Code
• Chat vs. agent mode and when to use each
• Building and enhancing apps with AI assistance
• Prompting techniques and providing effective context
• Refactoring, testing, and modernizing code with Copilot
• Where AI helps most and where developers still need to lead

⏱️ Chapters
03:21 GitHub Copilot overview, capabilities, and features
06:13 Real-world use cases: legacy code and productivity
11:08 Setting up Copilot in Visual Studio and VS Code
18:06 How Copilot works: context and models
28:08 Creating a Blazor app with Copilot
35:10 Blazor templates and project setup
41:10 Copilot agents and prompt workflows
49:26 Enhancing a Blazor app with agent mode
52:15 Prompting, iteration, and working with AI in real workflows

👤 Speaker
Allen Conway (@TheEclecticDev)
Principal Consultant, Xebia | Microsoft MVP

🔗 Links
• Download Visual Studio 2026: http://visualstudio.com/download
• Explore more VS Live! Las Vegas sessions: https://aka.ms/VSLiveLV26
• Join upcoming VS Live! events: https://aka.ms/VSLiveEvents

#blazor #githubcopilot #vscode #visualstudio #vslive

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Keynote: Knowledge is the Key: The Path for AI Applications | Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 2026

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Building AI-powered applications isn’t just about calling a model. It’s about understanding how AI works and designing systems that are reliable, secure, and scalable. In this keynote from Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 2026, Jerry Nixon and Drew Skwiers-Koballa break down the real path to building AI applications, from context windows and agents to data access and orchestration.

Learn how modern AI systems are built, why architecture matters more than ever, and how developers can move from experimentation to production-ready AI solutions.

🔑 What You’ll Learn
• How AI models work, including tokens, context windows, and cost tradeoffs
• Why context management is critical for performance and reliability
• How to design AI agents with clear responsibilities and minimal context
• The role of data access, tools, and retrieval (RAG) in AI apps
• Why natural language to SQL (NL2SQL) is risky in production
• How to securely connect AI to enterprise data using APIs and MCP
• How vector search enables semantic querying
• Why multi-agent orchestration is a key emerging pattern

⏱️ Chapters
01:07 Rethinking UI in AI-powered apps
02:45 How AI works: tokens, context windows, and cost
04:25 Managing context, memory, and reliability
07:02 Prompts, agents, and AI guardrails
10:27 Tools, RAG, and connecting AI to your data
13:53 Risks of NL2SQL and production considerations
15:17 Secure data access with MCP and APIs
20:28 AI + data strategy with SQL Server 2025
26:01 SQL projects, DevOps, and database lifecycle
33:35 Copilot in SSMS and database-level AI instructions
42:16 Multi-agent architecture and orchestration
47:37 Vector search demo and semantic querying
49:35 Multi-agent demo and key takeaways

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Jerry Nixon (@jerrynixon)
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Finishing updates for SharpSite and continuing on Streamer maps

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