Microsoft Agent Framework in Azure AI Foundry Officially Announced; 12-Months Free Copilot + Microsoft 365 Personal for College Students Now Available

Microsoft’s Agent Framework in Azure AI Foundry has now been announced, aimed at helping developers build, observe, and also govern at a larger scale. Additionally, the brand is also now offering a 12-month free Copilot + Microsoft 365 Personal subscription for college-going students.

Read more about these latest updates below.

Microsoft Agent Framework in Azure AI Foundry

As indicated above, in order to make it easier for developers to build, observe, and govern multi-agent systems, new capabilities have been brought in the Azure AI Foundry, and the newly-announced Microsoft Agent Framework is one among them. The Microsoft Agent Framework is currently available as a public preview, and it is pointed out as an open-source SDK and runtime that will simplify the working of multi-agent systems. AutoGen and Semantic Kernel are both unified together as a commercial-grade framework.

Speaking about its capabilities, with the Microsoft Agent Framework, developers will be able to experiment locally and deploy it to Azure AI Foundry; integrate API via OpenAPI, with Agent2Agent(A2A) collaborate it across runtimes, and connect with tools using Model Context Protocol (MCP); use multi-agent patterns (such as Magnetic One); reduce context-switching; and connecting Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and other agent platforms, to build multi-agent systems.

Copilot+ Microsoft 365 Personal 10-Month Free Subscription for College Students

Coming to Microsoft’s Copilot + Microsoft 365 Personal subscription, college students can now avail it for 12 months (a year) absolutely free of costs (through 10/31), and enjoy features to help them streamline studies, get organized, and be up to date. Copilot features like Copilot Quizzes, Copilot Vision on PC/Mac, File Upload in Copilot, Copilot Pages, Image Generation, Copilot Voice, and Think Deeper can be accessed too with the free subscription.

Stay tuned for more such updates.