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 ...

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

Microsoft published a walkthrough demonstrating how to upgrade a .NET AI chat app built from the official .NET AI templates to use the new Microsoft Agent Framework. The preview framework extends ...

Microsoft has updated its AutoGen orchestration framework so the agents it helps build can become more flexible and give organizations more control. AutoGen v0.4 brings robustness to AI agents and ...