As AI agent fever spreads, support for model reference protocol (MCP), AI data connection standard Anthropic Last year, increasing – and Microsoft is the latest to join, emphasizing security.
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The company joined the MCP Steering Committee last week with Github, Github, Copilot Studio, Dynamics 365, Azure and Azure AI, Foundry agents, Windows 11 and Semantic Kernel announced support for protocols. On Monday, as part of the company’s annual builder event, Microsoft announced two new initiatives to promote MCP’s “safe, scale adoption” as developers manufacture with agents in various platforms.
Microsoft said, “Windows 11 will support developers who create intelligent applications, who want to use MCP and generic AI capabilities, creating applications centered around the generative AI,” said Microsoft said. The company will release the new capabilities of the platform in preview for developers in the coming months.
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Microsoft is embracing support for MCP in many of its widely used products, but only in the right circumstances. “From a safety point of view, input and training data for an LLM are considered incredible,” said Microsoft, the attack on MCP server can justify AI chat apps or assert them to leak sensitive data. The company cited extensive research, identifying several main security intervals, can introduce AI agents, including poor credit management and lack of proper safety reviews.
Microsoft said in release, “The goal for Windows 11 as an agent OS is to provide the strongest fundamental safety capabilities, while also developing and optimizing emerging hazards.” To achieve that goal, Windows 11 will include features such as proxy-midnight communication, equipment-level authority and runtime authority.
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By joining forces with anthropic and other parts of the MCP network, Microsoft has prepared an authority imagination to improve security between apps and MCP servers. The new imagination allows users to implement verified sign-in methods such as Microsoft Entra ID to operate apps operated by agents and LLMS access data, including individual drives or membership.
Microsoft said in the announcement, “This is an important step towards enabling agent-based experiences in enterprises and consumer contexts, where trust and accountability is necessary.” This step responds to the overall trend in industries of companies that apply agents to everything for more complex, multi-step workflow workflow automation from lower level customer assistance.
Microsoft also announced a Windows Registry Service for the MCP server, which allows anyone to implement public or private, up-to-date, centralized repository for “MCP server entries” and enables various MCP implementation to discover and management of various MCP implementation with its related metadata, configurations and capabilities, “MICROSOFT Explained.
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Only the MCP servers who complete the company’s security limit will make it on the registry. The criteria include:
- Enabled
- The definition of server of equipment cannot be converted into runtime
- Security test of exposed interface
- Compulsory package identification
- The server should declare the privileges that they need
Microsoft also announced NLWEB, which is generally available “open project”, which compares the company to the HTML for “The Agentic Web”, given that every endpoint is a MCP server. This approach means that the website admins can easily make your content accessible to AI agents.
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Prior to this spring, Tech giants Google and Openai also joined the MCP. For the future of AI agents, Microsoft enhanced the signal for open software and “shared infrastructure”, “shared infrastructure”, as Microsoft said.
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