Microsoft ships Agent Framework 1.0 but Azure's agent stack still spans too many surfaces while Google and AWS offer cleaner developer paths.

Microsoft has released version 1.0 of its open-source Agent Framework, positioning it as the production-ready evolution of the project introduced in October 2025 by combining Semantic Kernel ...

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