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As the pace of change accelerates, organizations are moving quickly from AI experimentation to enterprise-scale transformation. Leaders are prioritizing measurable outcomes, faster time to value and repeatability across the business. But many are encountering the same reality: the challenge is no longer deciding whether to invest in AI — it’s scaling adoption and delivering consistent,...

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Updated May 11, 2026: The post was updated to reflect that third-party plugins will be available starting May 12, 2026. Spend time with any software engineering team right now and you’ll see something worth paying attention to. Over the last few years, the way software gets built has moved through four distinct patterns of human-agent...

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As our customers progress toward becoming Frontier Firms, they are using AI not only to optimize how work gets done, but to reinvent their business on the promise of growth. Organizations can now unlock creativity, accelerate innovation and democratize intelligence by bringing Copilots and agents directly into the tools people love and use every day....

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Today, I am pleased to announce that Azure Local now scales to support deployments of up to thousands of servers within a single sovereign environment, allowing organizations to run much larger workloads locally across large-footprint datacenters, industrial environments and edge locations while maintaining control within their sovereign boundary. Organizations operating national infrastructure, regulated workloads or...

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Amended Agreement Provides Long-Term Clarity The rapid pace of innovation requires us to continue to evolve our partnership to benefit our customers and both companies. Today, we are announcing an amended agreement to simplify our partnership and the way we work together, grounded in flexibility, certainty and a focus on delivering the benefits of AI...

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AI has moved quickly from experimentation to production. Customers want measurable business outcomes, along with security, governance and responsible AI built in from day one. Microsoft partners are a meaningful differentiator to deliver these objectives. They turn ideas into deployable solutions by prioritizing the highest value use cases, building the right data and security foundations...

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Today is the day. Open to Work: How to Get Ahead in the Age of AI is officially available! At a time when technology dominates the headlines, the conversation I see most often on LinkedIn is deeply human: what does AI mean for my job and my career? And that makes sense. Careers once felt...

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Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, and Mustafa Suleyman, Executive Vice President and CEO of Microsoft AI, shared the below communications with Microsoft employees this morning. SATYA NADELLA MESSAGE I want to share two org changes we’re making to our Copilot org and superintelligence effort. It’s clear a new era of productivity is emerging as AI experiences...

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Microsoft combines accelerated computing with cloud scale engineering to bring advanced AI capabilities to our customers. For years, we’ve worked with NVIDIA to integrate hardware, software and infrastructure to power many of today’s most important AI breakthroughs. What’s new at NVIDIA GTC Expanded Microsoft Foundry capabilities to build, deploy and operate production-ready AI agents on...

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Rajesh Jha, Executive Vice President, Experiences + Devices, and Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, shared the below communications with Microsoft employees this morning. RAJESH JHA MESSAGE  Subject: Organizing for the future and my transition Dear Team, After 35+ years at Microsoft, I am moving into retirement. I will transition out on July 1st and then stay in an...

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