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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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Microsoft Build 2024: .NET Aspire goes GA, Windows gets an NPU, and Recall gets a reckoning thumbnail

Microsoft Build 2024: .NET Aspire goes GA, Windows gets an NPU, and Recall gets a reckoning

By Thimo Buchheister · Thursday, May 23, 2024 · 0 comments

Build 2024 in Seattle put cloud-native .NET on a supported footing with Aspire's GA, launched a new class of NPU-equipped Copilot+ PCs, and shipped Recall — the feature that would spend the next month getting taken apart by security researchers. Our candid read from Ibbenbüren.

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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

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

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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