We’re proud to announce that Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms for a second year in a row, and the furthest to the right in Completeness of Vision. We believe this recognition reflects our continued product innovation, seamless developer experience, and AI leadership. Enabling customers…
This blog post is the second out of a six-part blog series called Agent Factory which will share best practices, design patterns, and tools to help guide you through adopting and building agentic AI. Tools are defining the next wave of agentic AI In the previous blog, we explored five common design patterns of agentic AI—from tool…
A new kind of enterprise is emerging—and it’s rewriting the rules of leadership. Microsoft’s 2025 Work Trend Index calls them Frontier Firms: organizations that are not just adopting AI, but are powered by intelligence on tap, human-agent teams, and a new role for everyone; agent boss while rearchitecting their operations around it. These firms are…
This blog post is the first out of a six-part blog series called Agent Factory which will share best practices, design patterns, and tools to help guide you through adopting and building agentic AI. Beyond knowledge: Why enterprises need agentic AI Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) marked a breakthrough for enterprise AI—helping teams surface insights and answer…
We’re proud to announce that Microsoft has once again been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Container Management, for the third year in a row. We believe this recognition reflects the breadth, innovation, and real-world customer impact of our container portfolio. From Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Azure Container Apps…
For business leaders building with AI, the conversation has moved beyond chat. The bar is higher: can your AI generate, reason, and deliver measurable outcomes—safely and at scale? Today, we’re announcing general availability of OpenAI’s new flagship model, GPT-5, in Azure AI Foundry. This is more than a new model release; it is the most powerful LLM ever released across key…