GitHub and Microsoft have taken an influential step by joining the leadership group guiding the development of Anthropic MCP, Anthropic’s emerging protocol for linking artificial intelligence models with diverse data environments. This collaborative announcement was highlighted at Microsoft’s Build 2025 conference, marking a major milestone as MCP’s adoption broadens throughout the technology industry.
Earlier in the year, both OpenAI and Google committed to integrating MCP into their growing suite of AI tools, reinforcing MCP’s status as a potential industry standard. MCP’s core purpose is to let intelligent systems access data from varied business platforms, content libraries, and application development frameworks, streamlining tasks and powering new capabilities.
MCP Support Expands Across Developer Platforms
MCP brings developers the tools to enable seamless data flow between their applications and AI systems, supporting dynamic interactions such as chatbots or automated workflows. By utilizing MCP servers and MCP clients, teams can efficiently establish secure data exchanges between business apps and the models driving AI-powered solutions.
Microsoft and GitHub are planning comprehensive integration of MCP throughout their services, including major environments like Microsoft Azure and Windows 11. In addition, the Windows operating system will soon support MCP, giving developers the ability to make app features accessible to AI models running within MCP.
For example, new updates will allow features like file management and Windows Subsystem for Linux to be utilized by MCP-enabled AI systems as dedicated data sources. Microsoft’s official update outlined how developers can present desired app functionalities as MCP servers, providing AI models welcomed access to integrated tools.
Both companies have also advanced the MCP standard with key technical contributions. GitHub has helped design a new registry service for MCP servers, empowering coders to set up central repositories that make it easier to discover, manage, and configure every implementation as necessary.
At the same time, Microsoft has worked closely with the wider MCP community and Anthropic to refine the protocol’s security elements, creating a new authorization specification. This enhancement ensures people can confidently allow AI-driven applications to connect, share, and utilize services or subscriptions, while retaining strict access controls for personal and enterprise data.
