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Issue #141 / 23-FEB-26

Claude Sonnet 4.6 in Microsoft Foundry-Frontier Performance for Scale

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is now available in Microsoft Foundry, and it is designed for teams who want frontier performance across coding, agents, and professional work at scale. With Sonnet 4.6, customers get access to powerful reasoning and productivity capabilities that make everyday AI a practical reality for development teams, enterprise knowledge workers, and automation scenarios.

OneDrive on Mac gets Liquid Glass with an All-New Activity Center

Two major improvements are coming soon to OneDrive on macOS. An all-new Mac-first experience in the OneDrive Activity Center gives you clean sync status and control that embraces the visual design of the Mac, including support for Liquid Glass on macOS 26 and beyond. And new Mac-native dialogs are built with native Mac controls to better fit its look and feel.

Azure reliability, resiliency, and recoverability: Build continuity by design

Modern cloud systems are expected to deliver more than uptime. Customers expect consistent performance, the ability to withstand disruption, and confidence that recovery is predictable and intentional. In Azure, these expectations map the three distinct concepts: reliability, resiliency, and recoverability.