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 06/30/2025):$46.7B
- Cloud Services:SaaS,PaaS,IaaS
- CEO:Satya Nadella
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AI and Copilots
Copilot Mode in Edge allows users to interact with webpages using voice, access guided browsing sessions, and enjoy AI-driven security.
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Microsoft’s latest Copilot update introduces text-based interaction with Copilot Vision, expanding beyond voice commands to give users more flexibility and accessibility.
AI and Copilots
Google Cloud's 46% Q3 backlog growth and Oracle's 43% outpaced rivals, signaling rapid momentum shifts in the hyperscaler race.
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Oracle and Google Cloud are outpacing AWS and Microsoft in RPO/backlog growth, signaling a shift in cloud market leadership focused on future business commitments rather than past revenue.
Cloud
Google Cloud is growing significantly faster than Microsoft and AWS, signaling a shift in who’s winning new AI business despite trailing in total revenue.
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Microsoft Azure’s Q3 share slips as Google Cloud gains momentum in new customer acquisition and market performance.
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Microsoft has launched new no-code AI agents in 365 Copilot, enabling business users to easily build apps and automate workflows using natural language.
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Emerging Microsoft AI agents for ERP systems automate core financial processes — such as reconciliation, variance analysis, and reporting — within Dynamics 365 to streamline the record-to-report (R2R) cycle and enhance audit readiness.
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Mico reacts visually and conversationally in Copilot’s new release, elevating user engagement with adaptive tone and personality.
AI and Copilots
Community Summit proved AI is no longer just hype. It’s a growing toolset that demands intentional learning, trial, and shared knowledge to unlock its full potential.
AI and Copilots
At Community Summit NA, Microsoft showcases Copilot and AI agent integration across Azure and business apps, empowering users through collaboration and innovation.
AI and Copilots
Final day of Community Summit North America 2025 spotlighted AI’s real-world impact — from cybersecurity and Copilot innovation to the evolving partnership between humans and intelligent technology.
Innovation & Leadership
At the 2025 Community Summit North America Women in Tech Luncheon, inspiring speakers shared stories of courage, connection, and leadership — showing how women across the Microsoft ecosystem are building bridges, businesses, and belief in themselves and each other.
AI and Copilots
Day three of Community Summit NA 2025 highlights AI transforming Microsoft business apps, boosting accessibility, efficiency, and customer experiences.
AI and Copilots
Microsoft Copilot Studio now offers enhanced AI agent creation, seamless M365 integration, Azure AI Foundry connectivity, and improved analytics for enterprise solutions.
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Microsoft’s new licensing deal with Harvard Medical School positions Copilot to lead in healthcare AI by offering more accurate, practitioner-level health insights and reducing reliance on OpenAI.
AI and Copilots
Community Summit’s second day focused on translating Copilot’s promise into measurable outcomes for teams across industries.
AI and Copilots
AI and Copilots took center stage on day one of Community Summit, with sessions showing how the technology is driving real business change.
AI and Copilots
Microsoft expands Azure AI Foundry with new OpenAI models — GPT-image-1-mini, GPT-realtime-mini, GPT-audio-mini, and GPT-5 — unlocking advanced multimodal capabilities in text, image, and audio for developers.
AI and Copilots
Sentinel Data Lake provides important data storage and management improvements; universal connectors facilitate integration of third-party data such as SAP, Jason Revill says.
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The new portrait feature aims to make Microsoft Copilot’s voice usage more engaging.
AI and Copilots
Framework places strong emphasis on standards, open-source initiatives to orchestrate complex workflows, processes across diverse systems and agents.
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With its expansion to mobile and deeper Windows integration, Microsoft’s Gaming Copilot introduces a smarter, AI-enhanced gameplay experience.
Innovation & Leadership
After 12 years as CEO, Satya Nadella is delegating major commercial duties and seems poised to transition toward a chairman/CTO role — an Ellison‑style shift.
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As Microsoft evolves to meet faster customer demands, Satya Nadella empowers Judson Althoff to streamline commercial operations and enhance internal collaboration.
AI and Copilots
Data lake, graph correlations, and support for MCP standard advance Sentinel toward becoming a single AI-powered source for security insights, and action.
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Microsoft’s new marketplace supports the scaling of innovation by simplifying access to AI-driven tools and platforms.
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Unlike passive tools, Microsoft’s new AI agent engages silently in meetings, handling logistics like agendas and follow-ups while enhancing collaboration and freeing humans for deeper discussion and creative thinking.
AI and Copilots
Microsoft announces the world’s most powerful AI data center in Wisconsin as Oracle, OpenAI, and SoftBank reveal plans for $400B+ AI infrastructure under the Stargate project.
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Microsoft is constructing the world's most powerful AI data center in Wisconsin, intensifying the competition in the booming AI cloud market.
AI and Copilots
Continuing a push to provide access to the best AI for a given function, Microsoft offers Claude models in Copilot Studio, GitHub Copilot, and Researcher Agent.
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Microsoft 365 Copilot is now officially approved for federal use, signaling growing government trust in AI technologies.
AI and Copilots
Microsoft debuts its first in-house AI models — MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview — signaling a shift away from OpenAI reliance.
AI and Copilots
New agent performs classification of data, gives prompts to site owners to improve quality, and maintains hygiene for content and its associated metadata.
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While Microsoft’s investment is a vote of confidence in UK AI leadership, some voices in Europe, including SAP and Siemens CEOs, warn that current EU regulations are leaving the continent behind in AI innovation.
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At Workday Rising, the company announced new ERP innovations and partnerships with Microsoft, Salesforce, Snowflake, and Databricks.
AI and Copilots
At Workday Rising, Gerrit Kazmaier emphasized how “ERP for the AI era” means rethinking legacy ERP: moving from function‑oriented systems to AI‑embedded workflows, experience layers like Sana, and purpose‑built agents that align with business context.
AI and Copilots
Copilot Studio now features advanced runtime protection, enabling organizations to block unsafe AI actions using connected security platforms in real-time without interrupting workflows.
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Microsoft is bringing Copilot to Samsung TVs and monitors, turning it into an animated, voice-powered companion that aims to make AI a shared part of daily home life.
AI and Copilots
Latest Copilot rollouts deliver functions specific to finance, sales, and service, while Copilot Studio is enhanced with authentication and simplified support for MCP.
Cloud
Google Cloud led all major providers with 32% Q2 growth, narrowing the revenue gap with AWS despite its smaller base, fueled by skyrocketing AI demand across industries.
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Google Cloud tops cloud market growth at 32%, with Oracle, Microsoft, and others showing strong momentum in Q2.
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Oracle’s 359% RPO spike to $455B dwarfs competitors, narrowing revenue gaps with hyperscalers.
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The cloud market has reached $1.1T in RPO across four major players, with Oracle leading and Microsoft close behind.
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Copilot Studio enables users to build custom AI agents across Microsoft 365 and business systems with tools suited for both beginners and developers.
AI and Copilots
From purchase orders to vendor approvals, many steps in common business processes can be managed without human intervention. Microsoft is making that easier to implement in Copilot Studio.
AI and Copilots
Anthropic uses actual attacks against its own software to lay out specific ways that threat actors are leveraging AI to further their goals. Report serves as a troubling call to action for vendors, partners, and customers.
AI and Copilots
Microsoft’s new Copilot Mode in Edge transforms web browsing from a linear task into an intelligent, AI-driven experience that anticipates needs, performs tasks, and organizes your online journey.
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CEO of Microsoft AI Mustafa Suleyman warns that believing AI is conscious could lead to mental health risks and misguided calls for AI rights.
AI and Copilots
AI Partner Executive is a new resource hub launching September 2025 to help Microsoft partners navigate the shift toward AI Agents, Copilot Studio, and the evolving AI Business Solutions strategy.
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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.