AI email marketing tools: Our top picks for 2026




Marketers are turning to AI-powered tools to scale relevance without increasing manual effort as inbox competition increases and performance expectations rise. AI email marketing tools are rapidly reshaping how teams execute and measure email campaigns. AI advances now support everything from subject line creation and personalization to send-time optimization and revenue attribution.
Digital Marketing

Schema markup for AEO: How to implement it to boost answer engine visibility in 2026




Schema markup for AEO helps answer engines understand a website. Schema is readable by AI crawlers because it’s added to a site’s HTML. It allows SEO professionals to add additional context and map entities without overwhelming the website’s front end or users. This additional context provided by schema reduces ambiguity and increases the likelihood that the web content can be accurately cited in AI-generated answers.
Digital Marketing

Enterprise Live Migrations: Moving from Azure DevOps Repo to GitHub with minimal disruption

Over the last several years, we’ve encouraged customers to move their repositories from Azure Repos to GitHub to take advantage of the latest AI-powered and agentic development experiences. For many enterprise teams, however, migrating at scale comes with real constraints. Traditional approaches can require extended downtime – sometimes days – which isn’t acceptable for teams […]
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How Microsoft is migrating repositories to GitHub

For the past decade, Azure DevOps has powered software development at Microsoft, supporting some of our largest repositories and most complex engineering workflows across Azure Repos, Boards, and Pipelines. Software development is being reshaped by AI, and where code lives now have a direct impact on how much value organizations can capture. For teams that […]
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RISC-V profiles – why is RVA23 significant?

Introduction One of the important offerings of the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) is the ability to customize and extend the base instruction set. An initial reaction to hearing this is often to worry about software portability and compatibility, since if every RISC-V CPU  offers a slightly different set of instructions, software won’t be portable.  […]
Desktop & Laptop

On-page content formats answer engines actually favor [new research]




It seems like every brand is scrambling to get a piece of the pie in this new answer engine optimization (AEO) world. But what if you could get ahead of the curve by knowing the best on-page content formats for AI as verified by research? I pored over results from the new HubSpot State of AEO 2026 report and Wix Studio’s AI Search Lab research on most-cited content types to find out.
Digital Marketing

Azure DevOps and GitHub: Journeying into the AI Era

AI is changing how software gets planned, built, and reviewed. As teams adopt agentic development, the platform underneath those workflows matters more. They need tools that bring planning, coding, security, and collaboration together—and can keep pace with how development is evolving. That’s why we’re delivering the newest agentic capabilities on GitHub across planning, coding, code […]
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What’s Coming Next in Visual Studio: Our Microsoft Build 2026 Announcements

Microsoft Build kicks off today in San Francisco, June 2 and 3. If you cannot make it in person, the sessions are streaming online for free, and I want to walk you through what we are announcing for Visual Studio this week. One idea tie most of it together. Code is an asset, not just […]
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The AI Perception-Reality Gap




There’s a widening gap between what the market says about AI and what we actually hear from customers. The media, the VCs, the AI labs, and influencers have all talked about AI replacing humans, ripping out trusted software, and token-maxxing as ends worth pursuing. But the leaders running real businesses are increasingly asking the right questions. How do I make my people better with AI? Which systems can I trust? How can I measure the ROI of this spend? We hear these questions every day.
Artificial Intelligence