Software
MicrosoftKeynote announcements and appearances
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Announced
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Keynotes
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Status of what Microsoft announced
GA 5Preview 8Coming 1Announced 10
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Source
Announcements
AnnouncementStatusCompanyKeynote
- Microsoft IQContext layer grounding agents in enterprise and world knowledgeGA
- Work IQ APIsProgrammatic access to workplace intelligence, GA June 16Coming
- Microsoft ScoutPersonal always-on work agent, available to Frontier customersAnnounced
- MAI-Thinking-1Microsoft AI's first reasoning model, private preview on FoundryPreview
- MAI-Image-2.5Microsoft's first text-to-image and image-to-image modelsAnnounced
- Agent 365 for local agentsExtends Entra, Defender, Purview to govern local agentsAnnounced
- Microsoft DiscoveryAgentic AI platform for the full science workflowGA
- Majorana 2Next-gen quantum chip, 1000x more reliable qubit lifetimeAnnounced
- Microsoft Agent 365Infrastructure to manage and govern AI agents at scaleGA
- Sales Development AgentAutonomous prospecting and outreach agent, Frontier programPreview
- Teams Admin AgentAutomates Teams admin tasks like monitoring and provisioningPreview
- SharePoint Admin AgentMonitors inactive sites and manages permissionsPreview
- Word, Excel, PowerPoint AgentsAgent Mode content generation across Microsoft 365 appsPreview
- Copilot voiceNatural speech interaction with Copilot for commercial usersGA
- New Power Apps maker workspaceUnified AI-powered canvas for app buildingPreview
- Dynamics 365 ERP MCP serversConnects AI agents to enterprise ERP systemsPreview
- GitHub Copilot coding agentAsynchronous agentic coding partner built into GitHubAnnounced
- Windows AI FoundryUnified platform for the AI developer lifecycle on WindowsAnnounced
- Azure AI Foundry Agent ServiceOrchestrates multi-agent workflows; Semantic Kernel + AutoGen in one SDKGA
- Microsoft Entra Agent IDAssigns unique identities to agents to prevent agent sprawlPreview
- Model Context Protocol supportFirst-party MCP support across GitHub, Foundry, Copilot Studio, Windows 11Announced
- NLWebOpen project giving websites a conversational, MCP-native interfaceAnnounced
- Microsoft DiscoveryAgentic AI platform for accelerating scientific R&DAnnounced
- Microsoft 365 Copilot TuningLow-code agent creation using a company's own dataAnnounced
Keynotes with Microsoft launches
Build 2026Jun 2, 2026Satya Nadella- Build 2026 relocated from Seattle to San Francisco for the first time, running June 2-5, 2026.
- Microsoft IQ, a new context layer grounding agents in enterprise and world knowledge, is GA.
- Work IQ APIs became generally available June 16, giving agents programmatic access to workplace context.
Ignite 2025Nov 18, 2025Judson Althoff, Asha Sharma- Judson Althoff, CEO of Microsoft Commercial Business, opened the keynote, not Satya Nadella.
- More than 200,000 people registered for Ignite 2025, with 20,000-plus attending in San Francisco.
- Work IQ was introduced as a workplace intelligence layer capturing how work actually happens.
Build 2025May 19, 2025Satya Nadella- Satya Nadella framed the event around building an open agentic web at scale.
- GitHub Copilot now has 15 million developers using it.
- GitHub Copilot coding agent is a full agentic partner built into GitHub.
Named on stage
Cloud Next 2026Apr 22, 2026Thomas Kurian, Sundar Pichai- Thomas Kurian outlined a unified stack of chips, models, agents and security for enterprise AI
- The Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform launched GA with Agent Studio, Runtime and Memory Bank
- New TPU 8t and TPU 8i chips shipped, with TPU 8t offering 3x the power of Ironwood
GTC 2026Mar 16, 2026Jensen Huang- The keynote opened by framing the token as the basic unit of modern AI, at NVIDIA GTC 2026, SAP Center, San Jose.
- Huang introduced DLSS 5, using 3D guided neural rendering for real time, photoreal 4K performance on local hardware.
- Huang said computing demand has increased by 1 million times in the last two years.
KubeCon 2025Nov 11, 2025Jonathan Bryce, Chris Aniszczyk- CNCF opened KubeCon NA 2025 in Atlanta by marking 10 years since the foundation's creation
- Organizers pointed to landscape.cncf.io to show project maturity levels, with several projects graduating this year
- CVS Health was welcomed as a new platinum end-user member of CNCF
Summit 2025Jun 2, 2025Sridhar Ramaswamy, Sam Altman, Sarah Guo- Snowflake highlighted deeper Apache Iceberg support, used by companies like Booking.com, via Catalog Linked Databases
- Sam Altman and Conviction founder Sarah Guo joined Ramaswamy on stage for a fireside chat on AI and agents
- OpenAI and Snowflake said their partnership has driven down the cost of accessing frontier models
Anthropic 2025May 22, 2025Mike Krieger, Dario Amodei- Mike Krieger opened Code with Claude, Anthropic's first developer conference, in front of a live audience
- Dario Amodei announced Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 were releasing live across all Anthropic products
- Claude 4 models add near-instant responses alongside an extended thinking mode for harder problems
Computex 2025May 19, 2025Jensen Huang- Huang told a crowd of more than 4,000 at Taipei Music Center that AI data centers are, in fact, AI factories.
- NVIDIA detailed huge new AI installations from CoreWeave, Oracle, Microsoft and xAI, calling them gigantic factory investments.
- NVIDIA and Foxconn Hon Hai are deepening their partnership to build an AI factory supercomputer for Taiwan, including TSMC.
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