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50 Microsoft tools you can use for free just in time for Build 2026

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Microsoft Build 2026 takes place on June 2 and 3 at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, marking the first time the conference has left Seattle since 2016. With in-person tickets priced at $1,099 and capacity capped at around 2,500 developers, this year's event is deliberately compact, built around a single theme: AI agents.

Satya Nadella headlines the opening keynote, with two days of technical sessions from GitHub, Azure, and Windows teams covering the practical side of shipping AI agents and building on Windows as an inference platform.

The best way to get something practical out of Build is to show up already familiar with the tools being discussed. This article rounds up 50 products and platforms from across Microsoft's developer, productivity, and IT ecosystem that you can start using for free right now. We've organized them into eight categories so you can find what's relevant to your work and...

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