Accelerate migration and modernization with agentic AI

By Dustin Ward

Every organization has an innovation agenda. Whether it’s building AI-native applications, creating more engaging customer experiences, or unlocking new efficiencies—ambition is never the problem. But for many teams, it’s their technical debt that stands in the way. Legacy systems, outdated codebases, and fragmented infrastructure slow progress and drain resources. In fact, over 37% of application portfolios require modernization today—and that number will remain high over the…

Accelerate AI agent development with the Nova Act IDE extension

By Dustin Ward

Today, I’m excited to announce the Nova Act extension — a tool that streamlines the path to build browser automation agents without leaving your IDE. The Nova Act extension integrates directly into IDEs like Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Kiro, and Cursor, helping you to create web-based automation agents using natural language with the Nova…

Inside the world’s most powerful AI datacenter

By Dustin Ward

This week we have introduced a wave of purpose-built datacenters and infrastructure investments we are making around the world to support the global adoption of cutting-edge AI workloads and cloud services. Today in Wisconsin we introduced Fairwater, our newest US AI datacenter, the largest and most sophisticated AI factory we’ve built yet. In addition to our…

Microsoft named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Global Industrial IoT Platforms 

By Dustin Ward

We’re proud to share that Microsoft has been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Global Industrial IoT (IIoT) Platforms. We believe this recognition underscores our commitment to empowering industries with intelligent, secure, and scalable solutions that drive real-world impact.  As industrial organizations continue to modernize their operations, Azure’s adaptive cloud approach, which includes Azure IoT, Azure Arc,…

Agent Factory: Creating a blueprint for safe and secure AI agents

By Dustin Ward

This blog post is the sixth out of a six-part blog series called Agent Factory which shares best practices, design patterns, and tools to help guide you through adopting and building agentic AI. Trust as the next frontier Trust is rapidly becoming the defining challenge for enterprise AI. If observability is about seeing, then security is about…