Microsoft Ignite 2025
Nov 18, 2025 · San Francisco
Microsoft Ignite: Opening KeynoteNov 18, 2025 · 2h 28m · Judson Althoff, Asha Sharma- 1Judson Althoff, CEO of Microsoft Commercial Business, opened the keynote, not Satya Nadella.
- 2More than 200,000 people registered for Ignite 2025, with 20,000-plus attending in San Francisco.
- 3Work IQ was introduced as a workplace intelligence layer capturing how work actually happens.
- 4Microsoft Agent 365 became generally available for managing and governing agents at scale.
- 5Agent Mode in Excel lets users choose between Anthropic and OpenAI reasoning models.
- 6Logic Apps connectors expose over 1,400 systems, including SAP and Salesforce, as MCP tools.
- 7New Frontier-program agents were shown for sales development, workforce insights, and learning.
| Announcement | Status |
|---|---|
| Microsoft Agent 365Infrastructure to manage and govern AI agents at scale | GA |
| Sales Development AgentAutonomous prospecting and outreach agent, Frontier program | Preview |
| Teams Admin AgentAutomates Teams admin tasks like monitoring and provisioning | Preview |
| SharePoint Admin AgentMonitors inactive sites and manages permissions | Preview |
| Word, Excel, PowerPoint AgentsAgent Mode content generation across Microsoft 365 apps | Preview |
| Copilot voiceNatural speech interaction with Copilot for commercial users | GA |
| New Power Apps maker workspaceUnified AI-powered canvas for app building | Preview |
| Dynamics 365 ERP MCP serversConnects AI agents to enterprise ERP systems | Preview |
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