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 has announced Playwright, a tool that lets developers write tests in Python for web applications across Chrome, Chromium-based Edge, Apple Safari and Mozilla Firefox. Playwright, a Python ...

Microsoft has launched a new 44-part series called Python for Beginners on YouTube, consisting of three- to four-minute lessons from two self-described geeks at Microsoft who love programming and ...

Microsoft today announced the public preview of Python in Excel, which will allow advanced spreadsheet users to combine scripts in the popular Python language and their usual Excel formulas in the ...

With native Python integration with Excel, users will be able to use the new “PY” function to input Python code directly into Excel cells. Microsoft has partnered with programming language repository ...

Turn Excel into a lightweight data-science tool for cleaning datasets, standardizing dates, visualizing clusters, and ...

Some members of the Microsoft 365 Insiders program can now try out the combination of Python's data analysis and visualization libraries, Excel's features and the Anaconda Python repository. Image: ...

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In a new role at Microsoft’s Developer Division, Guido van Rossum hints at how he and the company will be working to improve Python In a tweet published Thursday at noon, Python programming language ...

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 ...