Microsoft Overview
At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our mission is grounded in both the world in which we live and the future we strive to create. Today, we live in a mobile-first, cloud-first world, and the transformation we are driving across our businesses is designed to enable Microsoft and our customers to thrive in this world. We do business in 170 countries and are made up of 144,000 passionate employees dedicated to fulfilling our mission of helping you and your organization achieve more.Company Snapshot
- Cloud Revenue (as of 3/31/2025):$42.4B
- Cloud Services:SaaS,PaaS,IaaS
- CEO:Satya Nadella
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AI and Copilots
Microsoft and Gong are integrating AI-driven sales intelligence into Microsoft 365 and Dynamics, enabling sellers to automate workflows, access deep conversation insights, and drive faster, data-informed decisions using Copilot and custom agents.
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Microsoft's new AI safety ranking system aims to boost transparency and trust for developers using Azure's AI Foundry platform.
AI and Copilots
Sample app highlights how MCP can equip users with the industry-specific data they require from a diverse set of external tools and systems, working alongside a powerful AI orchestration engine.
AI and Copilots
Microsoft demos specific Purview functions that customers can tap into in AI use cases so they are protecting critical corporate data assets from both malicious external actors and insider threats.
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The Cloud Wars Top 10 have secured $915B in contracted future business, signaling extraordinary long-term demand for cloud and AI services.
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Cloud investment momentum continues despite political and economic uncertainties, driven by AI’s transformative promise.
AI and Copilots
Microsoft and ServiceNow collaborate to advance AI-powered agent-to-agent communication.
AI and Copilots
Most companies aren't ready for AI — not culturally, technically, or in terms of workforce adoption — despite the rapid pace of technological advancement.
AI and Copilots
Security software leader weighs in on agent security considerations, his firm's partnership with Microsoft for Copilot Studio, and security of emerging agent-to-agent communication protocols MCP and A2A.
AI and Copilots
New functionality in Azure AI Foundry, Copilot Studio, and GitHub brings major advances in building and managing AI agents while selecting the optimal model for developer flexibility.
AI and Copilots
This week's Build conference featured a new round of AI agent interoperability initiatives from Microsoft, with a particular focus on Model Context Protocol (MCP) and new servers.
AI and Copilots
Microsoft’s latest announcements boost agentic AI adoption with Copilot Tuning, multi-agent orchestration, and new developer tools for accessible, enterprise-ready AI.
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Microsoft and OpenAI are reshaping their partnership, paving the way for an IPO and new strategic dynamics in AI leadership.
AI and Copilots
Microsoft partners with AI software provider Gong to deliver the latter's sales intelligence directly into customers' software ecosystem for higher sales performance.
AI and Copilots
Security executive Krista Arndt explains how Security Copilot, agents improve response time to security incidents, accelerate training of new security professionals.
Cloud
Microsoft outlines its vision for building AI-first companies by integrating agentic AI, Copilot, and human collaboration across its business applications suite.
AI and Copilots
ServiceNow CEO taps into similar perspective as Microsoft CEO on the impact that AI agents will have on enterprise apps.
AI and Copilots
Microsoft brings Agent2Agent (A2A) to Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studio, accelerating the era of agentic AI through open protocol interoperability.
AI and Copilots
Adam Lieberman details AI focus at financial software provider Finastra: enterprise efficiency, devleoper productivity, and client commercialization. He also outlines the firm's work with Microsoft.
AI and Copilots
Bank's C-suite security leader laments the state of security with SaaS applications including AI and calls on the industry to step up its game.
Cloud
Despite Microsoft's dominance in current cloud revenue, Oracle’s 63% RPO growth signals a potential reshaping of the Cloud Wars power dynamic.
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Oracle, Microsoft, AWS, and Google reveal surprising shifts in cloud leadership through RPO and backlog growth figures.
Cloud
With cloud revenue rivaling AWS and Google Cloud combined, Microsoft silences talk of an AI slowdown.
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Microsoft’s blowout Q3 results and $315B in future cloud business crush AI slowdown fears and expose the absurdity of recent data center panic.
Cloud
Microsoft’s new “computer use” feature in Copilot Studio allows AI agents to interact with desktop apps and websites through GUIs — paving the way for more powerful, intuitive automation.
AI and Copilots
AI usage data gathered by Stanford researchers shows extensive reach in the tech industry, media and telecom, and professional services. Strategy and finance use cases are driving strong revenue impact.
Cloud
Despite media hype, hyperscalers like AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle, and Microsoft are massively investing in AI and cloud infrastructure, not scaling back.
AI and Copilots
Data from security firm Harmonic finds the typical organization has hundreds of AI apps in use, many of them unmanaged, while a majority of firms lack adequate governance strategies.
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The AI-driven cloud boom continues as Oracle, Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft expand infrastructure aggressively, countering reports of slowdown.
AI and Copilots
Microsoft moves forward with the rollout of its GenAI-powered screen capture tool, Recall, addressing security issues ahead of general availability.
AI and Copilots
Advanced Copilot functions include search and notebooks, while new agents deliver on the promise of an integrated human-AI workforce that's quantified in new research.
AI and Copilots
Board member and AI leader reveals company has saved 489,000 hours and delivered 11,500% ROI by tapping an AI assistant, whose use is expanding rapidly.
AI and Copilots
Business Apps and AI expert explains real-world use cases for MCP, Microsoft's support for the emerging standard, and how partners can capitalize.
AI and Copilots
Microsoft Copilot can work across multiple systems in complex use cases, with UiPath providing orchestration functionality.
AI and Copilots
Microsoft's Dewain Robinsons shares key insights from his three sessions at the recent AI Agent & Copilot Summit.
AI and Copilots
New thinking emerges about human-agent interplay and optimal ways to build organizations augmented by AI.
AI and Copilots
AI agent framework in Microsoft Azure AI Foundry designed to simplify orchestration in multi-agent systems.
AI and Copilots
OpenAI and Microsoft’s support for Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) marks a major step toward universal AI agent interoperability, signaling a shift from competition to collaboration in building open standards for seamless integration and future AI governance.
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Microsoft's Ray Smith provides key takeaways from his keynote at the AI Agent & Copilot Summit, including the customer journey and business transformations of AI.
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Microsoft’s EVP of AI, Mustafa Suleyman, announced major Copilot updates focused on personalization, memory, and user control to set it apart in the crowded AI assistant market.
AI and Copilots
Microsoft is supercharging its security portfolio with AI-driven tools like Purview Data Security Investigations, Entra access controls, and Defender enhancements to help enterprises swiftly detect, investigate, and mitigate data risks
AI and Copilots
Research captures the potential financial impact across industries, functions, and use cases. Healthcare and financial services have opportunities to be big winners in embracing GenAI.
AI and Copilots
With its agent OS, PwC delivers a powerful framework to help customers develop, manage, and govern agents that interact with a wide range of vendor platforms and data sources.
AI and Copilots
Microsoft's Copilot Control Systems provides security, management, and measurement reporting to help customers ensure the maximum value from their investment in Copilots and agents.
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Oracle is rapidly expanding its global network of small, full-capability cloud regions — outpacing competitors and betting on a unique strategy to lead the future of AI and cloud infrastructure.
AI and Copilots
Celonis and Microsoft integrate process intelligence with Microsoft Fabric to streamline AI-driven analytics.
AI and Copilots
PwC and Microsoft are taking on the challenge of a proliferation of agents to ensure rollouts are governed, compliant, secure, and well managed.
AI and Copilots
Heidi Bamburg discusses the launch of the Sikich AI Factory, which provides customers with an environment to be hands-on with AI applications.
AI and Copilots
A slew of agents — the first of many to come — begin the process of helping customers apply automation while scaling protection of broad, diverse data estates. They lay groundwork for an agent to perform every security task.
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Founded in 1975, Microsoft is among the largest enterprise-technology companies in the world and is the largest enterprise-cloud vendor in the world. It has been #1 on the Cloud Wars Top 10 rankings for more than 2 straight years. Playing at all 3 layers of the cloud—IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS—Microsoft is able to address what it calls “the entire digital estates” of its business customers around the world. Since Satya Nadella become CEO in 2014, Microsoft has surged to the top of the cloud-computing industry by combining a broad and deep product lineup, an early and totally uncompromising commitment to hybrid-cloud computing, and highly innovative go-to-market strategies. Those include some unprecedented situations in which Microsoft first helps its corporate customers build unique applications or other solutions around Azure, and then helps those corporations sell their unique IP to other companies, thereby turning IP into revenue.