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Build 2026 shrank to two days at Fort Mason in San Francisco — 'real code, no fluff.' Agents became the platform, Microsoft shipped its own models, and Windows turned into an agent OS. It's also the first Build we haven't attended in person since 2012.
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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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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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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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