Inside Track

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…

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…

About a year ago, our teams in Microsoft Digital—the company’s IT organization—began an AI transformation the same way most organizations did: ad-hoc. Our engineers taught…

Across Microsoft, our product teams rely on lab environments to develop, test, validate, and troubleshoot products before they reach customers. These labs are typically made…

Every IT team knows the feeling: A project is on track, and then testing becomes the wall everything stacks up against. Slow cycles, fragmented tools,…

At Microsoft, Python has long been one of our most popular programming languages. Our developers use it for building production systems, internal tools, automation workflows,…

At Microsoft, our network engineers work across multiple systems, including topology views, telemetry dashboards, logs, incidents, tickets, and fragmented tools. They piece together signals from…

We’re in a new world of work support today, where Microsoft 365 Copilot and agentic AI make getting detailed help with a problem as easy…

At Microsoft Digital, the company’s IT organization, we’re reimagining how engineers, product managers, and program managers work. Microsoft Azure DevOps (ADO) is our company’s end-to-end…

When generative AI burst into the mainstream, it landed in our IT engineering organization like a shockwave. There was excitement, curiosity, skepticism, and no shortage…

Knowledge workers have all been there. Maybe you’re a product manager with a backlog that you can’t ever get to. Perhaps you’re a designer who…