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Judson Althoff, CEO, Microsoft commercial business, speaks at Microsoft Ignite 2025. (Photo by Dan DeLong)

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Judson Althoff, CEO, Microsoft commercial business, speaks at Microsoft Ignite 2025. (Photo by Dan DeLong)

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Judson Althoff, CEO, Microsoft commercial business, and Shantanu Narayen, CEO, Adobe, at Microsoft Ignite 2025. (Photo by Dan DeLong)

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Charles Lamanna, President, Business Apps & Agents, speaks at Microsoft Ignite 2025. (Photo by Dan DeLong)

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Charles Lamanna, President, Business Apps & Agents, speaks at Microsoft Ignite 2025. (Photo by Dan DeLong)

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Charles Lamanna, President, Business Apps & Agents, Microsoft; Tao Zhang, Cofounder & Chief Product Officer, Manus AI; Dean Arnold, Vice President of AI Platform, Workday; and Paul Fipps, President Global Customer Operations, ServiceNow, speaking at Microsoft Ignite 2025. (Photo by Dan DeLong)

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Asha Sharma, President, Core AI Product, speaks at Microsoft Ignite 2025. (Photo by Dan DeLong)

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Asha Sharma, President, Core AI Product, Microsoft, and Mike Krieger, Chief Product Officer, Anthropic, at Microsoft Ignite 2025. (Photo by Dan DeLong)

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Ryan Roslansky, CEO, LinkedIn and Executive Vice President, Microsoft Office & Copilot, speaks at Microsoft Ignite 2025. (Photo by Dan DeLong)

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Ryan Roslansky, CEO, LinkedIn and Executive Vice President, Microsoft Office & Copilot, speaks at Microsoft Ignite 2025. (Photo by Dan DeLong)

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A datasheet overview of Azure HorizonDB for PostgreSQL.

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Introducing an overview of Azure HorizonDB for PostgreSQL

Six Azure Copilot agents connected with arrows in a loop.

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Azure Copilot’s new agentic capabilities

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Windows 365 for Agents

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MCP on Windows

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How Agents Operate

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Passkey with Windows Hello integration

Video demonstration of Workforce Insights Agent generating data-driven insights for workforce planning.

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Workforce Insights Agent gives leaders a real-time, comprehensive view of their organization—supporting faster, data-driven workforce decisions.

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Full transparency – get a pulse on the agent’s activities and performance.

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Edge for Business is the world’s first secure enterprise AI browser

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Schedule meetings directly from chat—Copilot finds times, books rooms, drafts agendas, and resolves conflicts, all without leaving Outlook.

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Agents in Teams Channels now connect with GitHub, Asana, and Atlassian (Jira), pulling in tasks and risks from these apps for seamless teamwork.

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Microsoft Agent 365 – The control plane for agents

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Eric Jing, Co-founder, Mainfunc

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Get the complete view of all agents in your organization, including agents with agent ID, agents you register yourself and shadow agents.

Simple icons, paired with a design representing connected agents, convey how these elements work together to deliver a secure and efficient environment for users.

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The image shows a design representing the core features of Microsoft Agent 365. Key capabilities are highlighted: Productivity tools, threat protection, data security, access control, and observability.

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AI startup Mainfunc aims to make agents more intuitive.

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Secure your Microsoft 365 environment with recommended configurations—identify gaps, simulate changes, and deploy protections in just a few clicks.

Architecture diagram of Azure Copilot. Shows 3 columns. First column is "experience" with chat mode and agent mode text boxes. Second column is called "orchestrator" which shows how tools and agents connecting to knowledge sources. Third column is called "governance" with 3 text boxes for BYOS, configuration and observability.

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Azure Copilot Architecture Diagram

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Managed Instance on Azure App Service

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Agents on the taskbar

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Ask Copilot on Taskbar

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Copilot in Outlook mobile offers hands-free voice commands to summarize emails and guide you through actions like replying, deleting, and flagging.

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A centralized dashboard shows agent usage and adoption trends, helping IT and leaders govern and maximize agent impact.

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GitHub Advanced Security and Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Videos

Microsoft Ignite 2025: CEOs on AI, Partnership & Frontier Firms

Microsoft Agent 365 demo

Sales Development Agent

Windows: Evolving the OS for people and agents

Agent 365: Visualization

Agent 365: Access control

Agent 365: Security

Agent 365: Interoperability

Azure Copilot: Empowering you in the era of agentic cloud operations

Word Agent: Create documents from your work with Copilot Chat

Excel Agent: Build new spreadsheets with Copilot Chat

PowerPoint Agent: Generate presentations from your work with Copilot Chat

Agent Mode in Word: Edit and Format Document with Copilot

New enhancements to Agent Mode in Excel

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