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Amy Coleman, EVP and Chief People Officer, shared the following communication with employees today. When I stepped into this role, I promised to communicate more openly with you and share the “why” behind our decisions. Today we are eliminating around 4,800 roles, about 2.1% of our global workforce, as we focus our people, investments, and...

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The pace of AI adoption is moving incredibly fast. Customers have moved well beyond experimentation and understand the importance of adopting AI to transform their business. They are now concentrating on delivering measurable business outcomes and demonstrating a return on their AI investments, while ensuring their intelligence is amplified and their IP is protected. Today...

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As demand for cloud and AI services continues to grow, datacenters are becoming more essential than ever. Communities also want to better understand how this infrastructure affects local resources, particularly water. At Microsoft, water stewardship has been a priority since our first datacenter builds in the early 2000s and remains a core part of our...

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Cloud operations are entering a new era as AI-driven and autonomous agents become a larger part of modern software systems. As software becomes increasingly agentic, the challenge is no longer just managing greater scale and complexity. Operators must also contend with systems that evolve faster, act more autonomously and interact across an expanding network of...

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Today, Microsoft is announcing one of the largest single capacity additions in our history. In Pecos, Texas, we will build a new datacenter campus, expanding our global datacenter capacity by approximately 2 gigawatts (GW) to meet strong and sustained customer demand for AI and cloud services across industries and regions. Beyond the technology, this is...

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The two most important elements in any AI solution are Intelligence + Trust. I first made this statement in November at our Ignite conference and my conviction is strengthened by every conversation I have with customers. Through my travels, three consistent topics are being raised when considering the adoption of AI solutions: Will AI amplify...

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AI has arrived in the enterprise, and the shift is happening all at once. Every function, every role, every workflow is being reshaped. At the same time, a new class of organizations is emerging, one that will look fundamentally different from the companies that defined the last era of business. The winners won’t be those...

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Platforms shift when developers build. We explore, choose tools, dream, create. This platform shift comes with more information than ever, ready at your fingertips. This shift, it’s about building fast AND THEN: it’s about building, operating, optimizing and observing. Securing your infrastructure, applications and agents in a seamless way that doesn’t slow you down from...

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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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