Welcome to the new frontier
Every year at Microsoft Ignite, we are reminded of the extraordinary community that powers the world’s organizations. Whether you’re an IT professional, developer or business decision-maker, your work drives how people connect, create and achieve. This week marks 40 years of Windows—a legacy of innovation that has shaped work for decades. Now, we’re building on that foundation to reimagine Windows for what’s next.
Last year at Ignite, we introduced the “Era of AI.” This year, we’re evolving Windows to empower people to easily, securely and confidently leverage the full power of AI. Whether it’s incorporating AI tools in their workflow or choosing to use AI agents to perform tasks on their behalf, Windows is becoming the canvas for AI—embedding intelligence into the system, silicon and hardware, so organizations can move from experimentation to execution at scale. And, with leading AI innovation from first and third party partners on Windows, Windows remains an open platform, offering customers choice and control.
The world’s most ambitious organizations—what we call Frontier Firms—are already embracing AI in their daily workflows. They blend human ingenuity with intelligent systems to deliver real outcomes. Our ambition: make Windows the platform that empowers every organization to lead with confidence, speed and innovation. With security, identity, management and AI built in—not bolted on—Windows and Microsoft 365 provide a trusted, integrated foundation for AI-driven work at enterprise scale. You choose what AI tools to enable for who and when, offering greater flexibility and control to deploy as you and your teams are ready. This is all built on the foundation that your organizations expect from Windows—improved reliability, performance and fundamentals.
Prerelease AI interactions shown; subject to change. Sequences shortened for demonstration purposes.
This aligns with our announcements that we’re previewing at Ignite this yeari:
- Evolving the Windows platform: With native agent infrastructure, Windows provides secure agent connectors (preview) and a dedicated agent workspace (preview) to help agents operate safely on devices and in the cloud. This integration isn’t just about adding agents; it’s about making them part of the OS experience. By embedding agent capabilities into core Windows services, Copilot and other agents are able to orchestrate tasks across apps, files and system functions while the operating system is built to help ensure user security, consent and control. Windows 365 for Agents (preview) extends this foundation to the cloud, enabling computer-using agents to work on secure, scalable Cloud PCs. When enabled, this lets agent makers focus on innovation, not infrastructure.
- Bringing agents into your flow: Windows is now your canvas for AI and agents with Ask Copilot (preview) and Agents on the taskbar (preview). By putting Microsoft 365 Copilot, AI agents and search on the taskbar—in your flow of work—Windows makes AI assistance easier than ever to use. You can invoke any agents your organization makes available to you — first or third party, with a quick prompt and then monitor their progress using familiar UX patterns like hover, badges and notifications, allowing you to move on to other tasks while your agents are working for you.
- Cloud-powered flexibility: Windows 365 has expanded to meet the needs of every organization and employee, introducing embedded AI, enhanced Frontline support, Windows 365 Reserve (generally available) and a migration API that simplifies moving from Azure VM to Windows 365 Cloud PCs.
- More secure and resilient: Post-Quantum Cryptography (generally available), Zero Trust DNS (generally available), passkey manager integration with Windows Hello (generally available), Windows Cloud IO Protection (preview), Intune management of Windows Recovery (preview coming mid-2026), Point-in-time restore (preview) and more strengthen the security and resiliency of your organizations.
These innovations are already transforming how organizations work and deliver measurable benefits today, not just promises for tomorrow. One example is Levi Strauss & Co, a brand with over 170 years of heritage, leading one of the most ambitious digital transformations with a full stack of Microsoft solutions including: Windows 11, Surface Copilot+ PCs, Copilot Agents, Windows 365 and Windows 365 Link devices, and Microsoft Intune. Read more about their journey.
And it’s not just companies; our partners are seeing impact too. Manus AI is leveraging Windows 365 for Agents to power next-generation experiences:
“Windows 365 for Agents provides the secure, scalable and always-available compute foundation that Manus AI needs to thrive,” said Xiao Hong, CEO of Manus AI. “By harnessing the power of the Cloud PC, our general AI agent can operate with greater agility, responsiveness and reach—empowering users to access intelligent assistance wherever they work.”
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Intelligence and governance at scale
Over our 40 years together, Windows has continually developed to meet people’s needs at work. Now we are evolving into an operating system for people and agents, one designed for intelligence and governance at scale. Traditional computing has been a series of steps, keystrokes and mouse clicks. With agents on Windows, you simply express your desired outcome, and agents handle the complexity. And because every organization approaches AI differently, Windows gives you the choice and control to decide how agents fit into your workflow so when you use them, you can do so with confidence and transparency. To deliver agentic experiences at scale, you need an operating system designed for it, not a patchwork of apps and middleware.
Today’s ecosystem is fragmented:
- Users need consistent controls and better discoverability.
- Enterprises need security and manageability to deploy agents with confidence.
- Developers need tools and libraries to build and make their servers easily discoverable to agents without doing bespoke work for each platform.
Solving this isn’t about adding another layer. It requires OS-level integration for security, consent and control. Windows will have native agent infrastructure that will enable you to:
- Invoke and manage agents directly from your taskbar.
- Manage your digital workforce with built-in governance.
- Allow agents to raise questions and provide updates through secure notifications.
And now, we’re introducing new foundational OS capabilities, coming soon in preview, that enable agents with your permission and control to act on your behalf, safely and effectively, and to help you achieve your goals.
- Agent connectors, now in preview, are powered by Model Context Protocol (native support for MCP announced at Microsoft Build 2025), and provide a standardized framework for any AI agents, first or third party, to connect to apps and tools to complete tasks for you.
- Agent workspace (preview) provides a contained, policy-controlled and auditable environment where agents can interact with software with their own identity much like humans do, performing tasks on your behalf in parallel without disrupting your primary session.
- Windows 365 for Agents (preview) extends agentic capabilities to the cloud, so businesses can accelerate AI adoption and scale AI workloads without compromising compliance or productivity.
These innovations are built directly into Windows 11 with the governance and security controls you already know and trust:
- Policy-driven control: IT admins can define guardrails for consent, control and auditability across agentic workflows.
- Enterprise integration: Centralized management through Intune and Entra helps ensure that AI agents operate within organizational security, compliance and governance standards.
- Secure by Design: OS primitives enforce containment and compliance, making agentic interactions more secure than traditional apps.
With this foundation, Windows delivers agentic innovation at scale—secure, auditable and ready for enterprise deployment, and we are already collaborating with numerous agent builders and application developers utilizing the agentic platform on Windows to create advanced AI solutions with MCP.
Manus is an AI-powered general productivity agent that helps users with varied tasks such as creating websites, organizing files and generating content through simple prompts and secure integrations. Manus leverages MCP on Windows, enables users to build a website in minutes—directly from content stored on their PC—without uploading files or switching apps. The agent uses the File Explorer connector to fetch content and execute tasks entirely within the Windows security model. Beyond website creation, Manus can organize files, generate content and manage information through simple prompts and explicit user approval. This demonstrates the core value of MCP on Windows: enabling agents to act intelligently while keeping enterprise data protected and workflows more seamless.
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Claude by Anthropic is an AI productivity agent on platforms including Windows that helps users handle multi-step tasks efficiently. By connecting to File Explorer—with user consent—Claude can quickly find relevant documents like meeting notes and status updates, then generate summaries or reports in minutes. In a typical use case, Claude gathers all necessary files and produces an executive summary of a project, which can be sent directly through Outlook. This process saves time and maintains user privacy and control, showing how intelligent agents can streamline everyday work.
Learn more here: Ignite 2025: Furthering Windows as the premier platform for developers, governed by security.
Making Copilot a dynamic hub for agents on Windows
The new Ask Copilot on the taskbar (preview) provides a unified entry point that fluidly connects Microsoft 365 Copilot, agents and search. This makes Copilot and agents feel like a natural part of how you use your PC, turning everyday interactions into moments of productivity and impact.
- One-click access to Copilot from your taskbar: This opt-in experience is the most integrated and natural way to engage with Copilot through voice or text in the way that works best for you. Commercial users will have all the power of their Work IQ as contextual information that they can reference in their Copilot chats and with Microsoft 365 AI Agents.
- Invoke agents: You’ll be able to invoke agents directly from Ask Copilot on the taskbar using the tools button or by typing “@.”
- Streamlined search experience: Lightning-fast results in a refreshed design makes finding apps, files and settings easier.
Agents on the taskbar make agents more visible and accessible across Windows
As Windows evolves into a canvas for AI, agents are deeply integrated across the OS, extending the same contracts that apps use today to new surfaces and scenarios. With Agents on the taskbar, agents will become as easy to use and common as applications on Windows.
You will be able to invoke, monitor and manage Copilot and AI agents like Microsoft 365 Researcher directly from the Windows taskbar. This unified agentic experience makes AI agents more visible, accessible and interactive across Windows.
After initiating an agent task, either directly from the Microsoft 365 Copilot app or Ask Copilot on the taskbar, the agent will show as an icon with status badging and a hover card for progress and context. From there, you can easily monitor the progress of agents without disrupting your work, making the taskbar a dynamic hub that helps you accomplish more with less effort—bringing intelligent productivity into the flow of work.
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Delivering AI that matters with new capabilities for Microsoft 365 Copilot on Windows, Edge for Business and Copilot+ PCs
Voice in Microsoft 365 Copilot helps users quickly capture ideas for brainstorming, drafting responses or preparing meetings. Simply say “Hey Copilot” (available in Frontier in the coming weeks) or press the Copilot key to open the quick view input box to activate voice. This allows you to tap into Copilot without any interruption of switching apps and windows. Start a back-and-forth conversation with Copilot, receiving real-time spoken responses based on both web and work data.
Copilot is available right from your taskbar, and now highly contextual help extends to other Windows surfaces like File Explorer—where it can take contextual actions like summarizing files, creating briefs and even drafting emails with Microsoft 365 Copilot.
Microsoft Edge for Business is trusted by top customers for most of their browsing minutes. And now, Microsoft is redefining the enterprise browser for the AI era—introducing AI browsing with Copilot Mode (private preview). This new experience transforms workflows, while delivering enterprise-grade security, compliance and controls at every level.
AI is integrated directly into core browsing tasks, delivering agentic, proactive and contextual intelligence that supports daily work. With features like Agent mode, a Copilot-inspired New Tab page and additional new AI features—such as multi-tab reasoning—located outside of Copilot Mode, your workforce can move faster, reduce friction and stay focused on what matters most.
And because Edge for Business is deeply integrated with the Microsoft Graph, these AI capabilities are uniquely positioned to understand your data and workflows—delivering intelligent assistance exactly where work happens.
When you are on a Copilot+ PC, you get even more value, Copilot+ PC customers are more satisfied than on any other Windows deviceii. With better battery life, faster performance and exclusive experiences powered by the 40 TOPS NPU, employees who use Copilot+ PCs are saving on average five hours per weekiii. Quickly search across local and cloud files by simply describing what you’re looking for with the improved Windows Search (preview) and Microsoft 365 integration. And Click to Do just got more capable with expanded AI actions, like turning any table on your screen into an Excel table (preview).
What’s new: AI in Windows 11 and Copilot+ PCs:
- Writing assistance (preview): Rewrite and compose capabilities for any text box in any app, plus offline support on Copilot+ PCs.
- Outlook summary (preview): AI-generated summaries in Outlook.
- Word auto alt-text (preview): Automatic alt-text for images in Office documents for accessibility.
- Fluid dictationiv (preview): AI-powered voice feature that turns speech into polished text, correcting grammar, punctuation and filler words in real time.
Work anywhere: Cloud-powered flexibility
Of course, productivity doesn’t stop at the device. To meet the demands of flexible work, Windows is extending AI innovations to the cloud, delivering flexibility without compromise.
With Windows 365 for Agents, agent makers can create enterprise-ready agents that run on secure, policy-controlled Cloud PCs streamed from the Microsoft Cloud. This means organizations can accelerate AI adoption and scale workloads without compromising compliance or productivity. It powers advanced AI initiatives and partner solutions as the execution platform for agents built in Microsoft Copilot Studio’s Computer Use capability, ensuring seamless actions in a full Windows environment. Researcher with Computer Use in Microsoft 365 Copilot is the first supported Microsoft solution that leverages Cloud PCs running a Linux environment, allowing users to automate website navigation and actions.
Leading builders like Manus AI, Fellou, Genspark, Simular and TinyFish are already piloting Windows 365 for Agents. For example, Manus AI is using non-domain-joined Cloud PCs to deliver intelligent PowerPoint creation and editing, citing Windows 365 for Agents as the secure, scalable foundation enabling agility and reach.
Customers have been asking for more ways to take advantage of the flexibility and security of Cloud PCs. To meet that need, we’re introducing Windows 365 Cloud Apps and User Experience Sync (both generally available) to Windows 365 Frontline. These capabilities let IT admins deliver line of business apps without streaming the full desktop, reducing overhead while maintaining the same security and compliance benefits of Windows 365. With User Experience Sync, application settings and configurations persist for each user across sessions, ensuring a consistent experience and simplifying management—even in frontline scenarios where efficiency and reliability are critical.
New Windows 365 AI-enabled Cloud PCs (preview) include some of the unique AI experiences of Copilot+ PCs, like improved Windows search which helps you find your content using descriptive words and Click to Do which provides helpful shortcuts with relevant actions to take on text and images. IT admins can prompt Microsoft Security Copilot in Intune to ask questions about their Windows 365 Cloud PCs, and to support performance and license optimization. This delivers a unified AI experience across end-user and IT workflows: Microsoft 365 Copilot runs on Cloud PCs, Windows 365 for Agents, AI-enabled Cloud PCs and Copilot in Intune for admin capabilities.
Additional announcements for Windows in the cloud:
- Regional Host Pools: Remove cross-region dependencies in the connectivity platform, coming soon.
- Microsoft Hosted Network (MHN): Enable multi-region Cloud PC distribution to reduce single-region dependencies, coming soon (Windows 365 only).
- Multipath (generally available): Delivers seamless failover and boost connection by using multiple simultaneous network paths.
- External identities (B2B) support (generally available): Secured B2B logins for contractors and partners, simplifying collaboration without sacrificing compliance.
- Windows Cloud I/O protection (public preview): Newest capabilities add advanced input protection against keylogging malware and keystroke injection attacks.
To make it even easier to onboard to Windows 365, a new migration API (generally available) enables customers and partners to build custom tools that simplify and streamline the move from Azure Virtual Desktop and other Azure VMs to Cloud PCs. And as organizations make that transition, we’re also expanding the device portfolio to give users more choice in how they experience Cloud PCs. Windows 365 Link, the first Cloud PC device from Microsoft, is now generally available in 13 countries and expanding to Belgium, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Singapore and Spain starting in February 2026. And looking ahead, we’re partnering with major commercial PC OEMs to further scale into a portfolio of Windows 365 Cloud PC devices and will have more details to come in early 2026.
Key updates for Windows 365 Link:
- Support for pairing Bluetooth® devices during Cloud PC device out-of-box experience, making setup faster for desk-based or frontline workers (generally available early 2026).
- Support for tenant branding: IT can set a custom wallpaper, logo and name on Cloud PC device sign-in screens (generally available early 2026).
- Bare metal recovery: IT can restore Cloud PC devices using a bare metal recovery image, providing one more way for devices to be recovered in case IT needs to join them to another tenant (generally available early 2026).
- Webex by Cisco (preview coming first half of 2026) and Zoom are actively working to enable high-fidelity meetings on Cloud PC devices.
Security and resilience at every layer
Flexibility and intelligence only matter if they’re secured. That’s why Windows continues strengthening its foundation with new layers of protection for every organization. Businesses face relentless threats, from cyberattacks to risks like hardware failures and accidental data loss. That’s why Windows 11 is secure by design and by default, with multiple layers of defense enabled from day one.
In line with the Windows Resiliency Initiative, we’ve made updates over the past year that make Windows harder to compromise and easier to recover when the unexpected happens. At Ignite, we’re introducing innovations that help protect against future threats, simplify recovery and modernize security tools—all while reducing complexity for IT.
Resilience when it matters most
Even the most secure organizations can face unexpected incidents. Windows is evolving to help stop incidents before they start, simplify management when they occur and enable rapid recovery. Our commitment to prevention is ongoing—every Windows update brings new security and resiliency improvements. We’re also taking big steps to help third party driver code run with less risk.
As we have shared, the Windows Endpoint Security Platform (WESP) API (now in private preview) will give partners a safer way to build security tools outside kernel mode, reducing the risk of crashes and improving stability. But our work to help partners move code out of the kernel doesn’t end with security tools. We are working with the whole Windows driver partner ecosystem to move third party drivers out of the kernel, or to use Windows inbox drivers written by Microsoft. We are also hardening how kernel mode drivers run, to reduce reliability risks also for driver types like graphics, which cannot be moved to user mode for performance reasons.
It is becoming easier to manage incidents with Windows 365 Reserve, now generally available. It helps enable employees to stay productive even when their primary device isn’t working, using secure, cost-effective, temporary Cloud PCs. If a device is lost, stolen or compromised, IT can quickly provision a Reserve Cloud PC with all the necessary apps and policies, keeping employees productive and businesses running through disruption.
Intune and Azure Portal reporting of machines running the Windows Recovery Environment will also make incident management easier. This makes it easy to find impacted machines when an incident is preventing some machines from booting. To quickly recover when incidents occur, we’re reinventing the Windows recovery tools:
- Quick Machine Recovery (QMR) was released for general availability earlier this year and is soon getting increased networking capabilities and Autopatch management for enterprise level control of QMR updates.
- Intune recovery is remote management of the Windows Recovery Environment—a single, scalable management plane for recovery, enabling customers to execute custom recovery scripts and to trigger recovery actions. Azure Portal will have the same ability for Windows Servers hosted in Azure VMs.
- Point-in-time restore: Roll back individual or groups of devices to a previous state, before an issue started occurring, without complex troubleshooting. (Preview coming soon.)
- Cloud rebuild for Windows 11 (preview): Rebuild PCs experiencing erratic behavior, reducing downtime. You’ll be able to select the Windows release and language through the Intune portal. The PC will download the install media, rebuild itself and let the user take over with the out-of-box experience where Autopilot will ensure the right MDM management is configured. The user gets apps, PC settings and their files quickly through Intune, Windows Backup for Organizations, and OneDrive.
Staying current with updates is critical for security, compliance and productivity, but it’s also one of the biggest challenges for IT. That’s why we’re also introducing Autopatch update readiness (preview), a new approach to Windows update readiness that gives IT teams greater transparency, predictability and control. With Autopatch update readiness, organizations can proactively assess update readiness across their device fleet, identify potential issues before deployment and plan rollouts with confidence. This means fewer surprises, faster adoption of new features and a more resilient, up-to-date Windows environment for everyone.
Protection built in
Windows 11 is more secure by design and by default, with layers of security enabled by default to enhance your day one protection. We continue to strengthen security layers across the Windows stack to address the complex and evolving threat landscape:
Breaking today’s encryption is intentionally hard—but advances in quantum computing and algorithms will eventually make it possible. To prepare, Windows now supports Post-Quantum Cryptographic (PQC) algorithms, designed to withstand quantum attacks. Announced at Build 2025, PQC algorithm support via the Windows Cryptography API is generally available today. Microsoft has worked closely with the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and global standards bodies to shape these algorithms, and we’ll continue expanding PQC support to higher-level protocols and Windows features.
Having strong encryption on-device is critical for protecting your fleet’s data. BitLocker provides that today. Next-generation Windows devices will feature hardware-accelerated BitLocker—delivering full disk encryption with stronger hardware-based key protection, and faster BitLocker provisioning for new device onboarding. This capability will be generally available on new Windows devices next year.
We’re making advanced forensics easier. Sysmon functionality (generally available in early 2026) will be part of Windows, making security events available via event log, simplifying operations and giving security teams deeper insights to detect and respond to threats quickly.
Phishing and password attacks remains a top threat, and at Microsoft, we are also focused on getting to a passwordless world. Sign-in is now faster, smoother and more secure with Windows Hello’s visual refresh and new passkey manager integration—including Microsoft Password Manager in Edge, 1Password, Bitwarden and others.
Learn more about Windows security and resiliency announcements at: Preparing for what’s next: Windows security and resiliency innovations help mitigate risks, recover faster and prepare for the era of AI.
Empowering developers and IT pros
Security and flexibility set the stage, and developers and IT pros need tools to build and manage what’s next. Windows is more than an operating system; it’s a strategic platform for innovation at scale. Developers get a rich ecosystem of frameworks and APIs to create intelligent, agentic applications that integrate seamlessly with cloud services. IT professionals benefit from enterprise-grade security, streamlined management and automation capabilities that reduce complexity and accelerate deployment. Together, these capabilities enable organizations to secure, adapt and future-ready experiences—key to becoming a Frontier Firm.
Advancing endpoint management with AI
We’re bringing AI into Intune to transform endpoint management. New Security Copilot agents in Intune like the Change Review Agent, Policy Configuration Agent and Device Offboarding Agent make complex tasks easier and security stronger by turning requirements into policies, assessing changes before they impact productivity and identifying devices for removal. Intune is raising the bar for IT control with three new capabilities—all designed to keep organizations secure, agile and ready for what’s next. Admin tasks centralize high-priority actions like approval requests and security tasks, deployments enable controlled, phased rollouts across a diverse estate, and maintenance windows let IT schedule updates at the right time to minimize disruption.
Learn more about what’s new in Intune here.
Building AI workflows locally
The future of AI is hybrid—combining cloud intelligence with on-device innovation. With cutting-edge silicon, a modernized stack and deep OS integration, Windows 11 is becoming the most open and capable platform for local AI. At its core, Microsoft Foundry on Windows unifies model selection, optimization and deployment across CPU, GPU and NPU—powering next-generation AI experiences.
Microsoft Foundry on Windows gives developers the tools to build AI experiences on-device whether they choose to use AI APIs powered by the inbox models that ship with Windows or access a rich catalog of pre-optimized open-source models in Foundry Local. We are introducing two new Windows AI APIs today in preview, Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL) for high-quality image generation and video super resolution (VSR) to upscale low-resolution streams. App content search enters public preview as an API for developers to enable fast, intelligent in-app search experiences, making it easy to find relevant content within their Windows apps.
At the foundation of Microsoft Foundry on Windows is Windows ML, now generally available. Windows ML provides a unified execution layer that streamlines the deployment of custom or proprietary models across a diverse Windows hardware ecosystem. With unified execution, hardware mapping and power-aware performance—enabled through deep collaboration with AMD, Intel, NVIDIA and Qualcomm—Windows ML ensures your models run efficiently on CPU, GPU or NPU. This means developers can deliver consistent, high-performance AI experiences without rewriting code for different hardware targets.
Many leading app developers are already leveraging Microsoft Foundry on Windows to deliver innovative, secure and high-performance AI experiences locally on Windows.
Windows ML is driving innovation across industries with partners like Roboflow leading the way. Roboflow, a Microsoft Start Up Pegasus Program participant, provides Visual AI tools used by millions of developers and over half the Fortune 100 for computer vision applications both in the cloud and on-device. With Windows ML, Roboflow deploys the RF-DETR model for advanced detection and segmentation on edge devices, enabling tasks like cargo container tracking and manufacturing quality assurance.
Infosys, a global leader in digital services and consulting, has integrated Windows ML with Infosys Agentic Foundry, part of Infosys Topaz™. By leveraging custom models tailored with business data, Infosys is transforming a cloud-based invoice classification agentic AI system. This advanced agentic application is designed to help Infosys business operations teams effortlessly understand the status of invoices from data embedded in emails. Consequently, it can quickly determine the necessary actions to move these invoices through the workflow. This integration aims to significantly enhance and expedite the end-to-end process, while ensuring sensitive data remains secure without being transmitted to the cloud.
The momentum among developers and partners adopting Microsoft Foundry on Windows continues to accelerate, with innovative solutions emerging across industries.
Looking ahead: The future of Windows
As we mark 40 years of Windows, this isn’t about looking back; it’s about building the future. The next chapter starts now. The announcements at Ignite 2025 are more than just features—they establish Windows as the canvas for AI and the execution fabric for people and the future of work.
Whether you’re equipping frontline workers, knowledge employees or developers, Windows is the platform that brings it all together. From empowering teams with Windows 365, enabling secure hybrid work with Copilot+ PCs, and supporting the next generation of AI-powered apps and agents, Windows delivers a foundation that’s secure, manageable and ready for what’s next.
The time is now: Become a Frontier Firm
This is your moment. The organizations that will define the next decade are those that embrace the frontier, blending human ingenuity with intelligent systems, moving faster and delivering outcomes with confidence. Windows is the canvas for AI: enabling speed, resilience and IT control.
Start with assistance in the flow. Delegate work to agents with control and oversight. Stand up the execution fabric with MCP and Windows 365. Your employees will move faster, your operations will become more resilient and you will do it with IT firmly in control, protecting your data and users at scale.
Thank you for your trust and partnership. We can’t wait to see what you build next.
Editor’s note — Nov. 18, 2025 — Availability information in the Windows Resiliency Initiative section was updated.
Endnotes:
i New capabilities announced in this blog will roll out over time. Timing and availability of some experiences may vary by market.
iiNew Technology: The Projected Total Economic Impact™ of Microsoft Copilot+ PCs. Forrester Consulting study commissioned by Microsoft, July 2025. Projected benefits for a single composite organization that has US$1 billion annual revenue and 2,000 employees with 80% using Copilot+ PCs within three years. In comparison to a mixed environment of conventional Windows 11 and Windows 10 PCs.
iii New Technology: The Projected Total Economic Impact™ of Microsoft Copilot+ PCs. Forrester Consulting study commissioned by Microsoft, July 2025. Projected benefits for a single composite organization that has US$1 billion annual revenue and 2,000 employees with 80% using Copilot+ PCs within three years. In comparison to a mixed environment of conventional Windows 11 and Windows 10 PCs.
iv Available only on Copilot+ PCs.
