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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.

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  • Cloud Revenue (as of 12/31/2024):$40.9B
  • Cloud Services:SaaS,PaaS,IaaS
  • CEO:Satya Nadella
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Microsoft Makes Major Push Into AI Agent Interoperability with New MCP Rollouts

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 Release Announcements Aimed at Streamlining Agentic AI, Increasing Accessibility

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 Could Revise Partnership Terms Ahead of Potential OpenAI IPO

Microsoft and OpenAI are reshaping their partnership, paving the way for an IPO and new strategic dynamics in AI leadership.
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Microsoft Brings Sales Insights from Gong Into Copilot, Dynamics, and Other Apps

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

AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: St. Luke's University Health Network On Expanding AI Use Cases

Security executive Krista Arndt explains how Security Copilot, agents improve response time to security incidents, accelerate training of new security professionals.
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Microsoft's Mission to Make Your Company AI First

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

Apps Apocalypse: Bill McDermott Joins Satya Nadella in Saying AI Agents Will Crush Applications

ServiceNow CEO taps into similar perspective as Microsoft CEO on the impact that AI agents will have on enterprise apps.
AI and Copilots

Microsoft Adopts A2A Protocol, Agentic AI Era Begins

Microsoft brings Agent2Agent (A2A) to Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studio, accelerating the era of agentic AI through open protocol interoperability.
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AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: Finastra Chief AI Officer Lays Out Range of Use Cases, Microsoft Collaboration

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.
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AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: JP Morgan Chase CISO Publicly Pushes for Stronger Security Controls

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.
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Pipeline Wars! Oracle Trounces Microsoft, AWS on Cloud Backlog Growth

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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RPO/Backlog Wars!

Oracle, Microsoft, AWS, and Google reveal surprising shifts in cloud leadership through RPO and backlog growth figures.
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Microsoft Obliterates 'Data Center Overcapacity' Fantasy with Another RPO Blowout

With cloud revenue rivaling AWS and Google Cloud combined, Microsoft silences talk of an AI slowdown.
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Microsoft RPO Boom: → 34% to $315B

Microsoft’s blowout Q3 results and $315B in future cloud business crush AI slowdown fears and expose the absurdity of recent data center panic.
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New Feature in Microsoft Copilot Studio Enables Agents to Interact with Websites and Apps

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.
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AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: Stanford AI Report Quantifies Usage by Industries, Functions

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.
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Data Center 'Bust' Is Giant Hallucination: Oracle, Google Cloud Accelerate while AWS, Microsoft Roll On

Despite media hype, hyperscalers like AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle, and Microsoft are massively investing in AI and cloud infrastructure, not scaling back.
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AI Apps Run Rampant in the Shadows, While Corporate Controls Lag Behind

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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Data Center-Palooza, Oracle, Google Accelerate; AWS and Microsoft Steady

The AI-driven cloud boom continues as Oracle, Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft expand infrastructure aggressively, countering reports of slowdown.
AI and Copilots

Microsoft’s Controversial Recall Feature Closer to General Availability

Microsoft moves forward with the rollout of its GenAI-powered screen capture tool, Recall, addressing security issues ahead of general availability.
AI and Copilots

Microsoft Delivers Wave of AI Agent/Copilot Advances, Quantifies Ongoing Workforce Impact

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

AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: BDO's Kirstie Tiernan Details Powerful ROI of AI Initiatives

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

AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: AI Expert Will Hawkins Labels Model Context Protocol (MCP) 'Incredibly Useful'

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

AI Agent and Copilot Podcast: Dhruv Asher of UiPath on Microsoft AI Partnership Expansion

Microsoft Copilot can work across multiple systems in complex use cases, with UiPath providing orchestration functionality.
AI and Copilots

AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: Microsoft's Dewain Robinson Shares Copilot Studio Insights from Event Sessions

Microsoft's Dewain Robinsons shares key insights from his three sessions at the recent AI Agent & Copilot Summit.
AI and Copilots

AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: Agents, Custom GPTs Find Their Way Into Org Charts

New thinking emerges about human-agent interplay and optimal ways to build organizations augmented by AI.
AI and Copilots

AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: Microsoft Simplifies Agent Development/Orchestration

AI agent framework in Microsoft Azure AI Foundry designed to simplify orchestration in multi-agent systems. 
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OpenAI and Microsoft Support Model Context Protocol (MCP), Ushering in Unprecedented AI Agent Interoperability

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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AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: Microsoft’s Ray Smith on How AI Transforms Businesses

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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Mustafa Suleyman Details Microsoft Copilot’s AI Upgrades Focused on User Privacy and Control

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 Applies AI for Stronger Security Controls in Purview, Entra, and Cloud Services

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

AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: KPMG Data Quantifies GenAI Opportunity by Industry, Use Case

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

PwC's Agent OS Provides Orchestration, Oversight of Multi-Vendor Agent Deployments

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 Copilot Control System Brings Order, Management to Burgeoning AI Agents

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 Dominates Competitors in Cloud-Region Buildout; Microsoft #2, Google Cloud #3, AWS #4

Oracle hits 101 cloud regions—more than Microsoft, Google, and AWS combined.
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Oracle Has Biggest Cloud-Region Network: Microsoft #2, Google #3, AWS #4

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 Expand Strategic Collaboration Bringing Process Intelligence to Fabric

Celonis and Microsoft integrate process intelligence with Microsoft Fabric to streamline AI-driven analytics.
AI and Copilots

AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: Microsoft, PwC Deliver Tools to Manage Proliferating AI Agents

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

AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: Gaining Confidence in AI Tech with Sikich AI Factory

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

Microsoft Taps AI Agents, Partners To Scale and Automate Cybersecurity Protections

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.
AI and Copilots

AI Agent and Copilot Podcast: Microsoft Exec Dorothy Li on Role of AI Agents, Ecosystem in Security

Corporate VP explains functionality of new security agents from Microsoft and partners, the need for automation and scalability in cybersecurity, and why partners are so key to advancing the strategy.
AI and Copilots

Microsoft Agentic AI Innovations in Azure AI Foundry Accelerate Digital Workforce Direction

Responses API and Computer Using Agent helps customers scale agentic AI initiatives across customer service, IT operations, finance, and supply chain management.
AI and Copilots

AGENT WARS: Microsoft Grabs Lead as 160,000 Customers Build 400,000 AI Agents

Microsoft’s massive agent-building wave shows that success in the AI era is as much about mindset and experimentation as it is about outcomes.
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AGENT WARS Heat Up: Microsoft 160K Customers Have Built 400K AI Agents

Microsoft is leading the rapid rise of AI agents, driving a cultural and business shift as companies increasingly build their own digital agents.
AI and Copilots

AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: Mason Whitaker of Volt Technologies Shares Top Event Takeaways

AI Agent & Copilot Summit attendee Mason Whitaker weighs in on the event's agent-focused keynotes, masterclasses, and peer networking opportunities.
AI and Copilots

Microsoft Announces Sweeping Agentic Enhancements to Security Copilot

Microsoft taps the power of AI to help customers enhance security posture, delivering a set of agents for its key platforms and enlisting prominent partners that are delivering their own specialty agents.
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Microsoft AI Agents Will Surge into Mainstream Incredibly Fast; Are You Ready?

Microsoft sees AI agents rapidly becoming the new front end for business applications, driving productivity and reshaping how companies operate.
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AI Agent & Copilot Summit: Microsoft's Bryan Goode Assesses Impact of AI on Org Structures, Business Metrics, and More

Microsoft Corporate Vice President Bryan Goode looks ahead to a future where agents drive changes in organizational structures, work styles, business performance measures, and more.
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AI Agent & Copilot Summit: Microsoft's Agentic AI Vision and Platforms; BDO Exec on Organizational Success Drivers

Microsoft execs detail agentic AI opportunities and progression, as well as how their platforms make it all possible. BDO exec details organizational considerations for AI success.
AI and Copilots

Microsoft VP of AI Agents Ray Smith on Business Transformation Through AI Agents

AI agents are redefining how businesses operate, making processes more efficient and driving real transformation. A

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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.

Microsoft’s cloud services

Microsoft’s huge array of cloud services are centered around its Azure technology for IaaS and PaaS. On top of those foundational pieces, Microsoft has extended the Azure product lineup into AI, ML, IoT, security, databases, data management and more. While Amazon’s AWS unit is the top provider in the public-cloud infrastructure market, Microsoft’s strength in cloud-native databases, applications, and the commercial side of LinkedIn combine to make it the world’s #1 provider of enterprise-cloud services.

Why Microsoft has earned a spot in the Cloud Wars Top 10

Microsoft has done a superb job of aligning its cloud services to the emerging needs of corporate customers undergoing digital transformation. That focus and technological innovation—combined with its unmatched innovation in go-to-market strategy and execution—have all combined to drive Microsoft’s cloud revenue for calendar 2019 to $44.7 billion, which is more than 25% higher than the revenue of Amazon’s AWS for the same time.
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