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Bringing employee voices into our AI decision-making The early phase of enterprise AI can be a little chaotic, and that’s OK. Teams experiment. Ideas are…

Every great recipe starts with the right ingredients. Skip one and you’ll get uneven results (or even something RAW—rushed, ambiguous, and wasteful). The same goes…

Inside Track series: AI councils at Microsoft Explore how we’re using AI councils to shape how we adopt AI, navigate emerging challenges, and turn what…

As we move from AI experimentation to enterprise-scale deployment, a new challenge is emerging: How do we govern thousands of AI agents, workflows, and copilots…

Network engineers at Microsoft rarely struggle because they lack the tools to do their work. The challenges appear when they need to access too many…

For years, organizations have treated data as a critical business asset. Here at Microsoft, data powers our reporting, supports our decision-making, and helps our leaders…

When a production incident occurs, the last thing engineers want to do is burn critical time gathering context when they’re better served solving the problem.…

Generating value by empowering your employees to build agents AI agents are an increasingly important way for organizations to scale knowledge, help their employees boost…

When we launched our Employee Self-Service (ESS) Agent to our more than 300,000 employees and contingent staff in the fall of 2025, we expected that…

Product managers operate at the intersection of customers, engineering, strategy, and execution. They translate customer needs into requirements, prioritize competing investments, coordinate and make trade-offs…

As more companies introduce AI-driven options to help their employees find information and accomplish common tasks, a question frequently arises: Which agentic tool is best…

With AI innovation moving so quickly, it can feel difficult to stay on top of everything that’s happening, including the projects and collaborations, the successes…

For Microsoft sellers, one challenge remains remarkably consistent: The more time they spend on administrative work, the less time they spend with customers and making…

Two years ago, AI adoption at Microsoft felt kind of like pushing a boulder up a hill. We had the technology, the licenses, and the…

When organizations begin adopting AI, one of the first important questions to be answered is where to start. The needs and options across different teams…

The team building our datacenters here at Microsoft needed to get organized. Microsoft Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I), our organization that plans, builds, and operates…

When Kanu Priya was growing up in Nangal-Shama, a small village of 1,500 people in Punjab, India, she didn’t know of any young women who…

A network connectivity incident doesn’t begin when someone asks whether they can get online. It starts earlier, with the signals coming from routers, switches, access…