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Microsoft Ignite 2025: Agent 365, the IQ family, and the Frontier Firm gets an operating manual thumbnail

Microsoft Ignite 2025: Agent 365, the IQ family, and the Frontier Firm gets an operating manual

By Thimo Buchheister · Friday, November 21, 2025 · 0 comments

Ignite 2025 moved to San Francisco and put Judson Althoff — not Nadella — on the main stage. Microsoft renamed Azure AI Foundry to Microsoft Foundry, shipped Agent 365 to govern the coming flood of agents, gave Copilot a memory with Work IQ, and put Anthropic's Claude on Azure next to GPT. Here's what a Microsoft-stack shop in Ibbenbüren actually took home.

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Microsoft Build 2025: the year of the agent, the GitHub Copilot Coding Agent, and the open agentic web thumbnail

Microsoft Build 2025: the year of the agent, the GitHub Copilot Coding Agent, and the open agentic web

By Thimo Buchheister · Thursday, May 22, 2025 · 0 comments

Build 2025 ran four days in Seattle under one banner — 2024 was the year of the assistant, 2025 is the year of the agent. GitHub Copilot grew its own asynchronous coding agent, Agent Mode spread to every major IDE, Azure AI Foundry crossed into model-as-a-utility territory with Grok 3, NLWeb pitched itself as 'HTML for the agentic web,' and the Model Context Protocol quietly became the standard underneath all of it.

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Microsoft Ignite 2024: the year agents stopped being a side project thumbnail

Microsoft Ignite 2024: the year agents stopped being a side project

By Thimo Buchheister · Friday, November 22, 2024 · 0 comments

Ignite 2024 in Chicago was where Microsoft put agents at the centre of the stack — autonomous agents in Copilot Studio, Copilot Actions, and the launch of Azure AI Foundry — while Fabric got a real database, Windows got a resiliency overhaul after CrowdStrike, and security got a $4M bug-bounty event.

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