Author: Alex Fleck

I’ve always had a passion for story, whether I find it in a novel, a medieval epic, a movie, or a game. Now, I’m helping tell stories about the people and teams at Microsoft who build the technology that moves our world. When I’m not reading, writing, translating, or gaming, you’ll find me on a backcountry trek in Canada’s woods and mountains.

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  • Keeping our content fresh, findable, and governed at Microsoft with AI-powered SharePoint

    Microsoft SharePoint is where business knowledge lives. As AI-driven capabilities, assistants, and agents have exploded onto the scene, new possibilities for managing that knowledge and presenting it to our employees are emerging. At Microsoft Digital, the company’s IT organization, we’ve been using the latest AI-enabled features in SharePoint to unlock more flexible, branded, and enjoyable Read More

  • The agentic future: How we’re becoming an AI-first frontier firm at Microsoft

    The rate of change for AI tools and technology continues to accelerate, and new opportunities to reimagine business processes and employees’ day-to-day work are emerging. Agents are the force driving this evolution forward. Agents are specialized AI tools built to handle specific processes or solve business challenges. Within Microsoft Digital, the company’s IT organization, we’re Read More

  • Keeping our in-house optical network safe with a Zero Trust mentality

    When it comes to corporate connectivity at Microsoft, a minute of lost connection can lead to catastrophic disruptions for our product teams, sleepless nights for our network engineers, and millions of dollars of lost value for the company. That’s why we built our own optical network at our headquarters in Washington state, and that’s why Read More

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