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Microsoft Ignite 2023: the age of Copilots — and the year Microsoft built its own silicon thumbnail

Microsoft Ignite 2023: the age of Copilots — and the year Microsoft built its own silicon

By Thimo Buchheister · Friday, November 17, 2023 · 0 comments
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Ignite 2023 in Seattle was where Microsoft declared itself 'the Copilot company,' rebranded Bing Chat to Copilot, shipped Copilot Studio and Microsoft Fabric GA — and quietly revealed Azure Maia 100 and Cobalt 100, its first custom datacentre chips. We were in the room, and the silicon story is the one that still matters.

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Microsoft Build 2023: the year Copilot became the platform thumbnail

Microsoft Build 2023: the year Copilot became the platform

By Thimo Buchheister · Thursday, May 25, 2023 · 0 comments
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Build 2023 was the AI inflection — Windows Copilot, Microsoft Fabric, Azure AI Studio, a shared plugin standard with OpenAI, and the Copilot stack. Three days in Seattle when 'add an AI feature' quietly turned into 'build a copilot.' Our notes from the room.

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Microsoft Ignite 2022: 'do more with less,' Entra grows up, and the quiet arrival of DALL·E 2 thumbnail

Microsoft Ignite 2022: 'do more with less,' Entra grows up, and the quiet arrival of DALL·E 2

By Thimo Buchheister · Friday, October 14, 2022 · 0 comments
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Ignite 2022 ran the whole show under one slogan — 'do more with less with the Microsoft Cloud.' Entra became a real identity family, Defender for DevOps and CSPM previewed, Teams Premium and Syntex landed, and Microsoft slipped DALL·E 2 into Azure and a new Designer app — three weeks before ChatGPT changed everything.

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Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert — the capstone I built one exam at a time thumbnail

Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert — the capstone I built one exam at a time

By Thimo Buchheister · Friday, July 15, 2022 · 0 comments
Microsoft Certified Certification DevOps DevOps Engineer Expert AZ-400 CI/CD
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AZ-400 earned me Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert in July 2022 — my only expert-level Microsoft cert, built on the Azure Developer Associate I'd earned in January 2021. It's less about CI/CD scripts than about people, process, and the discipline of shipping value continuously.

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Why I bothered with Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) — a foundations credential I actually use thumbnail

Why I bothered with Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) — a foundations credential I actually use

By Thimo Buchheister · Wednesday, June 15, 2022 · 0 comments
Microsoft Certified Certification Azure Azure Data Fundamentals DP-900 Data
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I earned Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) in June 2022. Here is what the certification really covers — core data concepts, relational and non-relational data on Azure, analytics workloads — and why a data-foundations credential earns its keep when you ship data-heavy line-of-business systems.

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