Chart your AI and agent strategy with Microsoft Marketplace

By Dustin Ward

A new category of organization is emerging that embeds AI across every layer of their operations—accelerating delivery, scaling efficiently, and unlocking new business potential. These companies are leading Frontier Firm transformation, not simply adopting AI but rebuilding around it to set the pace for the next decade of innovation. Successfully adopting AI requires choosing the…

Azure updates for partners: December 2025

By Dustin Ward

At Microsoft Ignite 2025, we explored what it means for organizations to move into the era of Frontier transformation. This shift is focused on embedding AI across every part of the business to improve decision-making, increase speed, and create new value. Organizations leading in AI make it foundational. They rethink processes and integrate new technologies…

Azure at Microsoft Ignite 2025: All the intelligent cloud news explained

By Dustin Ward

Before joining Microsoft, I spent years helping organizations build and transform. I’ve seen how technology decisions can shape a business’s future. Whether it’s integrating platforms or ensuring your technology strategy stands the test of time, these choices define how a business operates, innovates, and stays ahead of the competition. Today, business leaders everywhere are asking:…

GitHub Universe 2025: Where developer innovation took center stage

By Dustin Ward

At GitHub Universe 2025, the theme was clear: the ability to see, steer, and build across agents will bring the greatest impact and GitHub is the platform that’s transforming and empowering how developers and agents work together. As we heard from Kyle Daigle, Chief Operating Officer, GitHub, on stage this week, it is “the new…

Introducing Agent HQ: Any agent, any way you work

By Dustin Ward

The current AI landscape presents a challenge we’re all too familiar with: incredible power fragmented across different tools and interfaces. At GitHub, we’ve always worked to solve these kinds of systemic challenges—by making Git accessible, code review systematic with pull requests, and automating deployment with Actions. With 180 million developers, GitHub is growing at its…