With control of its own platform, Microsoft has taken a different approach, simplifying things with its own graph query APIs that use REST to access Office 365’s underlying data.

The Microsoft Graph API is the 'secret sauce' behind Bing for Business, new contextual search for SharePoint and Delve, and more.

With Microsoft Graph Developer Proxy, the software giant is providing a command line tool intended to provide a better way to test applications that use Microsoft Graph.