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Judson Althoff shared thisToday we announced major steps forward in empowering our customers—grounded in what we believe are the two most essential elements of Frontier Transformation: Intelligence + Trust. Organizations need to harness their own unique work intelligence as they build agents and solutions; and all AI artifacts across their technology stack must be observed, managed, and secured to ensure they are delivering value responsibly. With this as a foundation, we can help them move AI from experimentation to durable, enterprise-wide impact that delivers real business outcomes and growth. I am pleased to share several important aspects of this news: General availability of Microsoft 365 E7: The Frontier Suite on May 1 for $99 per user. Microsoft 365 E7 unifies Microsoft 365 E5, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and Agent 365 into a single solution powered by Work IQ—our intelligence layer that amplifies an individual’s IQ by tapping into an organization’s IQ—and integrated with the apps and security stack customers already rely on. It includes Entra Suite and advanced Defender, Intune, and Purview security capabilities, delivering comprehensive protection across agents and employees. New agentic experiences in Wave 3 of Microsoft 365 Copilot rolling out in March. Beyond a singular release of new capabilities, this is a commitment to continuous innovation—bringing frontier capabilities with enterprise promise to our customers in an open and model diverse manner. Copilot can now reason, plan, and act directly inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and the Microsoft 365 Copilot app—completing multistep tasks end to end right in the flow of work. Expanded model diversity with Claude and next-gen Open AI models available today. Microsoft 365 is model diverse by design. Copilot leverages leading models from Anthropic and OpenAI, operating openly across clouds and data services without locking customers in—and now Claude is available in mainline chat in Copilot. Copilot Cowork. Built in close collaboration with Anthropic, we are bringing the technology that powers Claude Cowork into Microsoft 365 Copilot to enable long-running, multi-step work that unfolds over time. It is currently being piloted with select customers and will become available as a research preview in March through the Frontier program. General availability of Microsoft Agent 365 on May 1 for $15 per user. As the control plane for AI agents, Agent 365 gives IT and security leaders a single place to observe, govern, manage, and secure agents across an organization—using the same infrastructure, applications, and protections they rely on to manage people. With intelligence grounded in work and trust built in by design, we are helping organizations unlock human ambition and organizational aspirations on their journey to becoming Frontier. https://lnkd.in/giDs5QcaIntroducing the First Frontier Suite built on Intelligence + Trust - The Official Microsoft BlogIntroducing the First Frontier Suite built on Intelligence + Trust - The Official Microsoft Blog
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Judson Althoff shared thisThis Sunday, we recognize International Women’s Day. I am incredibly grateful to work alongside such an exceptional group of women on my leadership team at Microsoft. Thank you for your guidance and the meaningful impact you make every day. Caroline Sanderson Cindy Jensen Deb Cupp Kim Akers Mala Anand Theresa McHenry #WomensHistoryMonth #IWD
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Judson Althoff shared thisAt Microsoft Ignite in November, we introduced Frontier Transformation—a holistic reimagining of business aligning AI with human ambition to help organizations achieve their highest aspirations and growth potential. While AI Transformation centered on efficiency and productivity, Frontier Transformation challenges us to do more for humanity by democratizing intelligence to unlock creativity and innovation for organizations and people around the world. Across industries, our customers are leading the way to becoming Frontier, sharing three common traits: •Putting AI in the flow of human ambition so people can achieve more in every role, across every industry •Inspiring the maker in every one of us with ubiquitous innovation that amplifies creativity and accelerates impact •Bringing observability to every layer of the stack to ensure outcomes are reliable, secure, and aligned with the business Microsoft’s differentiation is delivering cloud and AI capabilities built on a foundation of Intelligence + Trust. Our intelligence layer—Work IQ, Fabric IQ, and Foundry IQ—is grounding Copilots and agents in an organization’s own data, logic, and workflows; while Agent 365 is a single control plane for the governance, management, security, and observation of agents. I invite you to read my latest earnings blog to learn how our customers—many featured at Ignite—are achieving more with Frontier Transformation. https://lnkd.in/gYQsisXW https://lnkd.in/g4DDCG2vEmpowering Frontier Transformation | Microsoft Ignite 2025Empowering Frontier Transformation | Microsoft Ignite 2025
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Judson Althoff shared thisWe are thrilled to announce a new multi-year partnership with the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Formula One team ahead of the 2026 season. By putting Microsoft’s technologies at the center of racing performance, we are turning data into real-time intelligence that powers faster decisions, smarter strategies, and sustained competitive advantage—on and off the track. Read today’s press announcement to learn more: https://lnkd.in/g4dcasSH.
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Judson Althoff shared thisIt was great to be in San Francisco this week, where we held our largest customer and partner event of the year: Microsoft Ignite. I had a chance to catch up with Mayor Daniel Lurie 丹尼爾·羅偉 to express our gratitude for hosting our employees, customers, and partners from around the world. We look forward to bringing continued innovation to the city and coming back again next year!Judson Althoff shared thisMicrosoft Ignite is in San Francisco right now, bringing 20,000 people to our city and generating an estimated $68 million in economic impact and 68,000 hotel room nights. Today, Judson Althoff and I announced that this flagship tech conference is coming back to San Francisco in 2026! By establishing San Francisco as their home, Microsoft is reaffirming what we already know: our city is a global hub of innovation. Ignite’s return adds to a strong year ahead for Moscone Center, which will host 36 major events in 2026—outpacing 2025 and continuing the momentum we’re building across the city.
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Judson Althoff shared thisI was so pleased to be joined by customers and partners around the world for Microsoft Ignite with 20,000 attendees joining in San Francisco and 200,000 online. It is an exciting time as we shift from an era of AI Transformation to Frontier Transformation: a holistic reimagining of your business, aligning AI with human ambition to achieve your organization's highest aspirations and potential. By democratizing intelligence—empowered by Copilots and agents—we will help them obsolesce the mundane, unlock creativity, and drive even greater innovation. As our customers realize success, we have identified three common themes below with new product announcements aimed at empowering the Frontier Firm: 1. AI in the flow of human ambition. AI needs to be seamlessly accessible in the tools and solutions people use every day and tied to the key business metrics they use to determine ROI. Work IQ amplifies an individual’s IQ—it is the intelligence layer that enables Microsoft 365 Copilot and agents to know how you work, with whom you work, and the content you collaborate on. 2. Ubiquitous innovation. There is a maker in every one of us. The person closest to the challenge is often the best to solve it. Empowering employees with the ability to create AI artifacts in the flow of work and coupling citizen development with IT and professional developers through robust collaboration enables innovation at pace. ▪️ Foundry IQ is the intelligent connection point between all structured and unstructured knowledge and models that agents need. It is the first large scale implementation of context engineering pulling from multiple sources through a single API. ▪️ Fabric IQ is the semantic layer that agents and apps use to reason with enterprise context across your entire data estate, turning unified data into unified intelligence for decisions. If you are already using Power BI, all pre-existing data modeling will act as an immediate accelerant, giving your agents the unique context that defines how your business runs. ▪️ Microsoft Agent Factory harnesses the power of Work IQ, Foundry IQ, and Fabric IQ through a single metered plan, measuring ROI for AI before you start building agents. You can leverage our forward-deployed engineers, our partners, and our skilling assets to build and deliver agents. 3. Observability at every layer of the stack. You need to see all AI artifacts and how they are being used in real workflows. Microsoft Agent 365 enables you to observe, manage, and secure your AI agents whether they are created with Microsoft platforms, open-source frameworks, or third-party platforms. Underpinning these three traits are the fundamental Frontier building blocks of Intelligence + Trust. Enabled by Microsoft’s model diverse, open, and heterogenous platforms, we can bring together your organization’s IQ and help you achieve your highest aspirations in the pursuit of Frontier Transformation. https://lnkd.in/gvUW-M8a
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Judson Althoff shared thisOn November 18-21 in San Francisco, we are hosting our largest customer and partner event of the year: Microsoft Ignite. We will focus on what it means to become a Frontier firm—to empower human ambition and find AI-first differentiation in everything we do—and detail how we are demanding more from AI to solve humanity’s biggest challenges by democratizing intelligence, obsolescing the mundane, and unlocking creativity. We will also share how Microsoft’s technology portfolio and success framework are key to helping our customers maximize their potential by reinventing every aspect of their business with AI. From new product announcements and compelling demos to inspirational customer stories and featured speakers, you won’t want to miss this event to learn how you can lead and shape the future of industries by becoming Frontier. To register, visit: https://lnkd.in/ei_VfRaB I look forward to seeing you there! #MSIgnite Ryan Roslansky, Asha Sharma, Charles Lamanna, Scott Guthrie
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Judson Althoff shared thisTogether with our customers and partners, we have driven remarkable progress accelerating AI innovation over the past few years. We are achieving efficiency and productivity at scale to shape industries and markets around the world. It is time to demand more of AI to solve humanity’s biggest challenges by democratizing intelligence, obsolescing the mundane, and unlocking creativity. This is the notion of Becoming Frontier: to empower human ambition and find AI-first differentiation in everything we do to maximize an organization’s potential and our impact on society. I invite you to read my latest earnings blog sharing how Microsoft’s technology portfolio ensures our customers can go further with AI, using our AI Transformation success framework as a guide. I am also pleased to share several customer stories that exemplify the path to becoming Frontier firms. https://lnkd.in/eGfzVVnh
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Judson Althoff shared thisAfter a stop in Chicago last week, I’m in Toronto today keynoting the Microsoft AI Tour. It’s been a privilege to connect with thousands of customers and partners on how we’re helping them become Frontier firms through our AI Transformation success framework. I am always energized by my engagement with customers, and the communities we serve. I get a chance to see first-hand how they are using our products and services to obsolesce the mundane, democratize intelligence, and unlock creativity and innovation to help their organizations grow. This is how transformation happens. Microsoft is at our best when we marry our technology portfolio with customer needs today, while preparing them for the future. Every day, we aspire to get even better at tightening the feedback loop across product strategy, sales, support, marketing, and operations to deliver more value. This is why I am excited and humbled to take on a new role as CEO of Microsoft’s commercial business, with new team members and new responsibilities. Together we will continue to strengthen our mission in the era of AI: to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. https://lnkd.in/ejw3p8GN
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It is great to see Ryan Roslansky and Aneesh Raman publish this book—reinforcing what we see with our customers and partners every day: the biggest breakthroughs happen when AI is built to serve human ambition and elevate the work people do.
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Congratulations, Lindsay-Rae McIntyre! I wish you continued success at Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines!
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Judson Althoff reacted on thisJudson Althoff reacted on thisToday, Open to Work is finally actually out in the world! Getting here took Ryan Roslansky and I nearly two years of debating the ideas, researching the insights, and interviewing the experts. But the best parts of this book - the parts that make the book the book - come from members just like you. Members like Ume Habiba, JONETTA GRESHAM,Paul Cheek, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Neil Pretty, Taj English, Vivienne Ming, Joséphine Goube, Ethan Evans, Byron Auguste, Kate Kallot, Maria Flynn, Vivek Seshadri, Maria Anguiano, Nilofer Merchant, Nickle LaMoreaux, Tess Gilman Posner, Diego Rubio, Diego Arambula, John Henry, Leena Nair, Scott Galloway, Barbara Corcoran and more. All of the stories in the book are about people who pushed past the understandable fear and anxiety so many workers are feeling to not just engage with these new tools but also to realize their unique experience is their most competitive edge. That's what this book is about. I hope it finds you at exactly the right moment. Get yours here: linkedin.com/opentowork #OpenToWorkBook
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Judson Althoff reacted on thisJudson Althoff reacted on thisToday is the day - Open to Work is officially available! https://lnkd.in/gDqY5Bna Aneesh and I are excited to share it with the world. But more than anything, today is about gratitude. Gratitude for every past, present and future employee at LinkedIn and Microsoft who show up every day to create economic opportunity for the global workforce and to empower every person and organization in the world to achieve more. While that’s always true, it is especially true in moments of big change, when we all feel an extra responsibility to help professionals connect, learn, work, and grow in new ways, together. Gratitude for the members and experts who helped us tell this story. Who helped us show that no matter where you live or what you do, no matter what kind of job title you hold or what kind of career trajectory you’re on, this story belongs to you. Gratitude for the people - and the purpose - that made this book possible. Thank you. Ume Habiba, JONETTA GRESHAM, Neil Pretty, Taj English, Vivienne Ming, Joséphine Goube, Ethan Evans, Byron Auguste, Kate Kallot, Maria Flynn, Vivek Seshadri, Maria Anguiano, Nilofer Merchant, Nickle LaMoreaux, Tess Gilman Posner, Diego Arambula, Diego Rubio, John Henry, Leena Nair, Scott Galloway, Barbara Corcoran, Adam Grant, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Paul Cheek, Brad Smith, Steven Stegman, Avery R., Jeff Weiner
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Judson Althoff reacted on thisDear Microsoft, Empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Unapologetically inclusive—that’s our mission. Together, we have transformed our company, our culture, and, in meaningful ways, our industry. When we create the conditions for everyone to contribute and thrive, employees flourish, products improve, and customer experiences become more human and more powerful. There is a vast, complex world counting on Microsoft to help bend the arc of the future toward good. I am honored to have been part of this transformation for the past eight years. While I am stepping into a new chapter, I will remain deeply committed to this extraordinary company and the community that makes it what it is. Please take good care of one another, and of our customers. Dear Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines, I could not be more excited to join the Alaska family. Thank you to Ben Minicucci and the executive team for this opportunity. Aviation has long been part of my story. My grandfather and uncle were pilots for Air Canada; my aunt was a flight attendant. I grew up in awe of airplanes and of the extraordinary people who make air travel possible. Few industries so directly connect people and communities every day or play such a defining role in shaping how the world moves and advances. I am energized by what lies ahead and can’t wait to learn, build, and innovate alongside you as we grow together. With gratitude, Lindsay-RaeJudson Althoff reacted on thisThe strength of Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines is our people – and our success depends on attracting, developing and supporting the best people in the business. That’s why I’m pleased to share that Lindsay-Rae McIntyre is joining Alaska as our Chief People Officer. We’re at a transformational moment as we expand globally, integrate Alaska and Hawaiian, and operate with greater scale. Lindsay-Rae brings deep experience navigating complexity in global organizations. And most importantly, she lives our values. Please join me in welcoming Lindsay-Rae. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gawBEnwa
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Judson Althoff liked thisJudson Althoff liked thisIntroducing Critique, a new multi-model deep research system in M365 Copilot. You can use multiple models together to generate optimal responses and reports. Available today in Frontier: https://lnkd.in/g3mzcpk6
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Judson Althoff liked thisLove the scale and level of ambition shown by the SimCorp and Microsoft teams collaborating together to drive AI innovation for our clients. Thank you to allJudson Althoff liked this🚀 2,200 hackers. 22+ locations. 10 time zones. One global ambition. The SimCorp × Microsoft AI Hackathon 2026 brought one of EMEA’s largest customer hackathon to life, uniting teams worldwide to build production‑ready AI in a matter of days. Focused on real business impact across product innovation, software development lifecycle acceleration, SaaS scalability, and operational efficiency, this co‑created initiative is a key catalyst in SimCorp’s journey to becoming an AI‑driven leader. 🎬 Watch the recap to see what happens when strategy, technology, and talent come together at enterprise scale. #SimCorp #Microsoft #AIHackathon #AIatScale #SaaS #Innovation #FromIdeasToImpact #AIHackathon2026bySimCorpandMicrosoft
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Judson Althoff liked thisJudson Althoff liked thisSo much exciting news came out of Microsoft this week and it all points to a big shift in how AI shows up at work. For the past couple of years, many organizations have been experimenting with AI. Testing ideas. Exploring what’s possible. Now we’re seeing the next phase take shape: moving from experimentation to real transformation. Here are a few highlights that stood out to me from this week’s announcements: ➡️ AI embedded in the flow of work With Wave 3 of Microsoft 365 Copilot, AI is more deeply integrated into tools like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Copilot Chat. New capabilities like Copilot Cowork help turn a request into action, coordinating work across your emails, meetings, files, and data. ➡️ AI that helps teams focus on what matters most AI agents are beginning to support everyday tasks like gathering research, preparing materials, and coordinating routine workflows, giving teams more time to focus on creativity, strategy, and the human connections that drive great work. ➡️ Governance and security for the agentic era As AI adoption grows, visibility and trust are essential. Microsoft Agent 365 provides a control plane that helps IT and security teams observe, govern, and secure AI agents across the enterprise. ➡️ A unified platform for scaling AI Microsoft 365 E7: The Frontier Suite brings Copilot, Agent 365, Microsoft 365 E5, and advanced security together in one solution, making it easier for organizations to scale AI responsibly across the enterprise. What excites me most is what this unlocks for our customers. We’re at an inflection point where AI moves from promise to real, everyday impact — helping organizations work faster, smarter, and with more confidence. This next chapter is about turning possibility into progress, at scale.
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Free the Children, part of the WE.org family of organizations, empowers young people to create a better world. I have participated in Free the Children’s WE day events in San Francisco, Seattle, Calgary, and Ottawa, representing Microsoft and showcasing student innovators. Along with Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll and Jolene McCaw, I co-chair Seattle’s WE Day, which celebrates our kids’ empowerment to drive global change and local change.
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