Microsoft Ignite 2025

Ignite 2025 keynoteJudson Althoff, Asha Sharma, Nov 18, 2025

Tuesday, November 18, 20252h 28mChecked 2026-09-24

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Microsoft Ignite 2025 centered on the complete lifecycle of AI, opened by Judson Althoff, headlined by Agent 365 and Work IQ for governing and grounding enterprise agents.

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1. 1Judson Althoff, CEO of Microsoft Commercial Business, opened the keynote, not Satya Nadella.3:40
2. 2More than 200,000 people registered for Ignite 2025, with 20,000-plus attending in San Francisco.
3. 3Work IQ was introduced as a workplace intelligence layer capturing how work actually happens.14:51
4. 4Microsoft Agent 365 became generally available for managing and governing agents at scale.1:24:36
5. 5Agent Mode in Excel lets users choose between Anthropic and OpenAI reasoning models.
6. 6Logic Apps connectors expose over 1,400 systems, including SAP and Salesforce, as MCP tools.50:39
7. 7New Frontier-program agents were shown for sales development, workforce insights, and learning.