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AI
02 Jun 2026
AI alone won’t change your business. The system running it will.
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... The post AI alone won’t change your business. The system running it will. appeared first on The Official Microsoft Blog .
AI
02 Jun 2026
Microsoft Build 2026: Be yourself at work
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... The post Microsoft Build 2026: Be yourself at work appeared first on The Official Microsoft Blog .
Security
02 Jun 2026
Microsoft Build 2026: Securing code, agents, and models across the development lifecycle | Microsoft Security Blog
Discover how Microsoft enables fast, secure AI development with MDASH and new security capabilities.
Security
21 May 2026
What’s new in Microsoft Security: May 2026 | Microsoft Security Blog
Microsoft Security’s latest updates extend visibility, control, and protection across expanding ecosystems as organizations accelerate AI adoption.
AI
21 May 2026
From AI pilots to enterprise impact: Why execution is the new differentiator
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,... The post From AI pilots to enterprise impact: Why execution is the new differentiator appeared first on The Official Microsoft Blog .
Cloud
05 May 2026
How Frontier Firms are rebuilding the operating model for the age of AI
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... The post How Frontier Firms are rebuilding the operating model for the age of AI appeared first on The Official Microsoft Blog .
Cloud
28 Apr 2026
Unlocking human ambition to drive business growth with AI
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.... The post Unlocking human ambition to drive business growth with AI appeared first on The Official Microsoft Blog .
Developer Tools
27 Apr 2026
Microsoft Sovereign Private Cloud scales to thousands of nodes with Azure Local
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... The post Microsoft Sovereign Private Cloud scales to thousands of nodes with Azure Local appeared first on The Official Microsoft Blog .
Developer Tools
27 Apr 2026
The next phase of the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership
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... The post The next phase of the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership appeared first on The Official Microsoft Blog .
Software Engineering
21 Apr 2026
Accelerating Frontier Transformation with Microsoft partners
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... The post Accelerating Frontier Transformation with Microsoft partners appeared first on The Official Microsoft Blog .
Software Engineering
31 Mar 2026
Open to Work: How to Get Ahead in the Age of AI
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... The post Open to Work: How to Get Ahead in the Age of AI appeared first on The Official Microsoft Blog .
Software Engineering
17 Mar 2026
Announcing Copilot leadership update
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... The post Announcing Copilot leadership update appeared first on The Official Microsoft Blog .