Developers and engineers
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Engineering the Frontier Firm: Sharing our AI-native approach to software development
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…
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Taming our Python dependencies at Microsoft with AI
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,…
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IT on the cutting edge: Working in Microsoft Digital in the era of AI
What’s it like to power the systems behind a global technology leader from the inside? Working in Microsoft Digital, the company’s internal IT organization, means…
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Microsoft CISO advice: Apply engineering fundamentals to securing AI
Agentic AI, like any software, is just one part of a business solution. It is not the only element that needs to be secured. Engineers…
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Reclaiming engineering time with AI in Azure DevOps at Microsoft
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…
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Olutunde Makinde: From Lagos to Redmond, a Microsoft IT engineer’s journey
A career in Microsoft Digital, the company’s internal IT organization, puts employees at the center of one of the world’s most complex and forward‑leaning enterprise…
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Powering the new age of AI-led engineering in IT at Microsoft
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…
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The Frontier Firm: How knowledge workers are forging their own AI tools at Microsoft
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…
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Powering a generational shift in IT at Microsoft with AI
As the IT team at Microsoft, we in Microsoft Digital have experienced monumental shifts in the way we build, deploy, manage, and support information technology.…
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Streamlining engineering at Microsoft with Azure DevOps
We periodically update our stories, but we can’t verify that they represent the full picture of our current situation at Microsoft. We leave them on…