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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
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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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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
Microsoft Ignite Copilot Studio Microsoft Fabric AI Agents Azure AI Foundry Security Copilot Actions Windows 365
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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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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 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
Microsoft Ignite Azure Azure OpenAI Microsoft Entra Microsoft Defender Microsoft 365 Teams Premium Microsoft Syntex Security
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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 Ignite November 2021: Loop, Mesh for Teams, and the year Ignite ran twice thumbnail

Microsoft Ignite November 2021: Loop, Mesh for Teams, and the year Ignite ran twice

By Thimo Buchheister · Thursday, November 4, 2021 · 0 comments
Microsoft Ignite Azure OpenAI Service Microsoft Loop Mesh for Teams Teams oonnect oontext IQ Metaverse
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The autumn edition of a doubled-up Ignite year. Microsoft Loop, Mesh for Teams, oontext IQ, Teams oonnect shared channels, Azure OpenAI Service and the first serious 'metaverse' pitch — what we took home from oedmond's busiest cadence yet.

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