Published on: June 16, 2025
Category: Microsoft Weekly Brief
Tags: .NET, Azure, Microsoft Updates, Developer News, Microsoft Weekly
🔔 Microsoft Weekly Brief – .NET & Azure Updates
Welcome to this week’s Microsoft Weekly Brief! Every Monday, we summarize the most important announcements, product updates, and new features in the world of Microsoft technologies, including .NET and Azure. Here's what’s new for the week of June 16, 2025.
🚀 .NET 9 Preview 4 Released
- Performance Improvements: Major optimizations in garbage collection and JIT compilation.
- New APIs: Enhancements for time zones, math operations, and HTTP handling.
- Blazor Updates: Better debugging and Hot Reload reliability.
🔗 Read official .NET 9 Preview 4 announcement
☁️ Azure Highlights
- Azure OpenAI Adds New Models: GPT-4 Turbo now available with enhanced performance and lower latency.
- Azure Monitor Logs UI Update: A refreshed experience with faster query rendering.
- New Cost Management APIs: Developers can now track resource group-level budgets via REST endpoints.
🧰 Dev Tools & Resources
- Visual Studio 2022 v17.10.2: Bug fixes, Git integration enhancements, and MAUI performance improvements.
- Azure Dev CLI (azd): Added support for multi-environment deployment from a single configuration.
- .NET Upgrade Assistant: Now supports WPF and WinForms legacy migration hints.
💡 Tip of the Week
💡 Use dotnet workload search to quickly discover and install .NET SDK workloads for Blazor, MAUI, Android, etc.
📬 Stay Connected
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