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Microsoft 365 and Ignite 2021
Microsoft 365 and Ignite 2021
Ignite 2021 is here, and earlier than usual! There’s always a lot of news at Ignite, and I wanted to highlight some of…
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Microsoft 365 at Ignite 2020
Microsoft 365 at Ignite 2020
Part of what makes Ignite exciting for me year after year is seeing the hard work and collaboration happening across…
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Microsoft 365 at Build 2020
Microsoft 365 at Build 2020
Microsoft 365 was featured prominently at Microsoft Build 2020. It was a big week of announcements, so I wanted to…
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Kirk Koenigsbauer reposted thisKirk Koenigsbauer reposted thisWe’re building Copilot as a new OS for work that spans every model, every form factor, and every task. Today, we’re announcing our biggest update to Copilot to date, bringing four things together: • Autopilot: proactive and long-running agent built for the enterprise • Code: build apps with Copilot, hosted inside your company’s tenant • Home: Chat + Cowork together • Office: now fully embedded in Copilot (and Copilot embedded in Office, of course!) Plus, you can invoke Copilot in Teams, and we’re introducing Today, a proactive experience that surfaces the most important information from across M365 without needing to ask for it. The way we work is changing and so are our workflows. This update brings AI into that flow, from answering a question, to building an app, to getting work done on your behalf. Read more about what we are announcing: https://lnkd.in/gRuNDGb7
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Kirk Koenigsbauer reposted thisKirk Koenigsbauer reposted thisOur goal is to deliver the latest frontier AI models to customers the moment they’re ready. Today, I’m excited to share that OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra is available on day one across Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, GitHub Copilot, and Microsoft Foundry. Astra represents an important step forward in the kind of complex, multi-step work AI helps people accomplish. As models continue to improve, people are moving from using AI for individual tasks to delegating larger pieces of work. Astra can complete long running and highly complex tasks in a way we haven’t seen before. At Microsoft, we’re bringing those capabilities into the products and workflows our customers already use every day. Astra is paired with Work IQ in Microsoft Copilot to ground intelligence in an organization’s files, meetings, chats, and business data. Looking forward to seeing what customers build with it. Read more in the blog: aka.ms/astraincopilot
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Kirk Koenigsbauer shared thisChelsea Football Club announces Circle Internet Group as Principal PartnerChelsea Football Club announces Circle Internet Group as Principal Partner
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Kirk Koenigsbauer reposted thisKirk Koenigsbauer reposted thisCopilot Cowork is now generally available worldwide, now with multi-model support! Every organization can put long-running agents to work on complex, multi-step tasks, grounded in your organization's unique knowledge and know-how. https://lnkd.in/g3gD9TKd
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Kirk Koenigsbauer shared thisReleasing Copilot Cowork today!Copilot Cowork is now generally available | Microsoft 365 BlogCopilot Cowork is now generally available | Microsoft 365 Blog
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Kirk Koenigsbauer reposted thisKirk Koenigsbauer reposted thisThoughts on the future of the firm in an AI-driven economy, and why every company will need to compound the loop between their human capital and token capital … https://lnkd.in/gD_CzSuj
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Kirk Koenigsbauer shared thisI Gave My PM Work an AI Council. Here’s What I’m Learning.I Gave My PM Work an AI Council. Here’s What I’m Learning.
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Kirk Koenigsbauer shared thisThanks, Jeremy – I’m thrilled to join the Circle Board! Circle is playing a foundational role in modernizing the global financial system. I look forward to working the Circle team to help scale the business while strengthening customer trust and maintaining the highest standards of operational excellence.Kirk Koenigsbauer shared thisWe’re pleased to welcome Kirk Koenigsbauer to Circle’s Board of Directors. Kirk brings more than 30 years of experience building and scaling global enterprise software platforms and commercial cloud software services, including as President & Chief Operating Officer of Microsoft’s Experiences and Devices Group, focused on Microsoft 365 and Copilot. His expertise in operational excellence and building some of the most successful platforms and services in the world will be invaluable as we continue building trusted internet financial infrastructure. Read more: https://lnkd.in/g52r3snp
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Kirk Koenigsbauer reposted thisKirk Koenigsbauer reposted thisWe’re entering a new chapter where AI becomes an active participant in how work gets done. As I shared with Jeremy Kahn in this Fortune piece, the shift happens when AI starts carrying work across tools, time, and context—instead of just reacting as an assistant. That’s what Wave 3 of Copilot is about: agents that can move work end‑to‑end across Outlook, Word, Teams meetings, and data, grounded in organizational context and built with enterprise trust. And with Copilot Cowork, that work can run over time—so you can delegate more while staying fully in the loop. Charles Lamanna brings this to life with four real scenarios in his blog, showing what Cowork looks like in practice. I’ve linked both below, in the comments.
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Kirk Koenigsbauer liked thisKirk Koenigsbauer liked this26 years. It’s time. Goodbye and thank you, Microsoft. It’s been a privilege. I gave it my all.
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Kirk Koenigsbauer liked thisKirk Koenigsbauer liked thisEarlier today, I shared some news with our employees: after nearly 18 years at LinkedIn and Microsoft, I'll be leaving at the end of the year. Below is the note I shared with our teams. None of this would have happened without you, the people who use LinkedIn and Office every day. You found jobs, hired great teams and learned new skills. You wrote the plans, built the spreadsheets and sent the emails that run businesses all over the world. Watching that happen at the scale of billions of people has been the best part of my career. I can't wait to see what this team and this community build next.
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Kirk Koenigsbauer liked thisKirk Koenigsbauer liked thisI wanted to share more of the work that goes into building Copilot. So, I’m starting a series of short videos / whiteboarding sessions about the engineering problems our teams are tackling and how we’re thinking through them. The first is all about context, and how Work IQ makes Copilot special. Two companies can use the same AI model and get very different results. The model is important, but it does not come with an understanding of how your business or team works. That context is spread across the work happening every day: files, conversations, email, databases, and decisions. Figuring out what matters for a particular task, and what the model actually needs, is a hard & unsolved problem. That’s what we’re working on with Work IQ and why I’m starting here.
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Kirk Koenigsbauer liked thisKirk Koenigsbauer liked thisI could not be more excited about our Copilot announcement today and the next wave of innovation we will bring to our customers. https://lnkd.in/exq6UPDq Copilot was built to enable AI in the flow of human ambition. It has evolved from a chat assistant to the singular place to get uninterrupted work done. With Home, the convergence of Chat and Cowork, you can interact conversationally and create artifacts collaboratively. Code allows you to build AI solutions that help overcome obstacles to improve how you work. Autopilot acts autonomously to execute ongoing tasks, manage projects, and handle follow-up. We are also announcing Office in Copilot: Word, Excel and PowerPoint are now built into the experience. This all happens within the Copilot canvas, but the true differentiation and power of Copilot is derived from the Intelligence + Trust platforms upon which it sits. Microsoft IQ is the open, heterogeneous, model-diverse, intelligence platform that enables individual and organizational IQ to compound from within, protecting your IP so your unique value does not leak to improve models. Work IQ pulls from an individual’s gated M365 environment, and today we are announcing that Copilot can now access data from across your organization by connecting to Fabric IQ and Dynamics 365. A trust platform requires Observability, management, governance, and security of every agent and agentic process running across your technology stack to ensure you are seeing value and ROI. FinOps is critical here, and we are introducing new capabilities in Agent 365 and Copilot to manage model choice and cost for both user subscription licenses (USL) and usage-based billing (UBB), depending on the modality being used within Copilot. Please join us at Ignite in November to learn about how our latest innovations will continue accelerating your path to become Frontier. https://lnkd.in/ejMEq8gH
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Kirk Koenigsbauer liked thisKirk Koenigsbauer liked thisSomething I’ve come to notice over the years: The most truly talented people are often the easiest people to work with. Maybe that’s not a coincidence.
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Kirk Koenigsbauer liked thisKirk Koenigsbauer liked thisI’m proud to share that I’ve completed 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝗻 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆’𝘀 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗔𝗜 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺! A little over a year after graduating from the Harvard Business Analytics Program, it feels good to celebrate another learning milestone. The CMU program took me deeper into designing and building AI agents, from memory and tool use to multi-agent workflows, evaluation, and guardrails. I especially enjoyed putting those ideas into practice on a project close to home. Blossom, the academic planning assistant my daughter and I started during the program, has been growing too. Since my last post, we’ve added the ability to turn pasted school updates into assignments we can review and save, along with separate student and parent sign-ins. Small steps toward making it useful in our everyday lives, and a lot of fun building together. Next up: texting and integration with our family’s digital calendar. I’ll share more on those soon! Follow Blossom’s progress on GitHub: https://lnkd.in/gXWjfgra. #AgenticAI #LifelongLearning #EngineeringLeadership #CMU #BuildInPublicAgentic AI Program: Building Autonomous Systems for Real-World Applications • Gerardo Bodegas Martinez • EmeritusAgentic AI Program: Building Autonomous Systems for Real-World Applications • Gerardo Bodegas Martinez • Emeritus
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Kirk Koenigsbauer liked thisKirk Koenigsbauer liked this4 months into retirement. I get two questions almost every day - what are you doing with your time and how are you feeling? The two words that describe how I feel: healthier and present. I wasn’t sure what retirement would feel like. After 4 months I can honestly say I feel physically healthier—and more present—than I have in decades. Healthier - The Numbers The first thing I look at every morning is my sleep score on my Apple Watch. When I was working, it was typically in the mid-70s. Now it’s consistently in the high 90s. Without deadlines, constant stress, and so much travel, I’m getting to bed at a more consistent time, and, frankly just sleeping better. In 2020, I read Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker. It changed how I thought about health and reinforced something I now believe strongly: health really does begin with sleep. I use an app that takes data from my Apple Watch and estimates my “biological age”—essentially how old your body behaves compared to your chronological age. In 4 months my biological age has dropped by four years. It’s now eight years younger than my chronological age. I’ve also lost 20 pounds since retiring. I still have about 15 to go, but I’ll take the progress! Present This may actually be the bigger change. I’m a much better listener now. And I’m somewhat shocked by it. For most of my career, my mind was constantly racing ahead—thinking about the next problem, the next meeting, the next deadline, the next goal. Now, when I’m with someone, I find myself much more focused on them and on what we’re doing right now. One of my favorite things to do is hang out with our grandkids—the “interns.” No timers. No meetings. Nothing to race to. We draw. We color. We play Rock Band. We play Frisbee. We play soccer. We jump on the trampoline. We just be. I’ve struggled with this my entire life. I’ve always been hyper-focused on the destination and the achievement. I’m only now beginning to understand what people mean when they talk about enjoying the journey. An old lesson When I was in college, I worked at a local grocery store. There was an 80-year-old man named Elmo who worked there four days a week. He showed up at 5:00 a.m. and spent the day lifting 40-pound boxes of fruits and vegetables. Elmo was incredibly strong. His grip was so firm that when you shook his hand, he could put you on your knees. One day I asked him his secret to longevity. “You have to be both physically and mentally active, or you’ll die.” At 21 years old, I thought it was an interesting comment from an old man. At 60-something, I think he was onto something. Don’t wait for retirement. You don’t need to quit your job to sleep better, exercise consistently, put down your phone, slow down, listen more carefully, or spend uninterrupted time with the people you love. Being physically healthier and more present doesn’t just make retirement better. It makes life—and work—better.
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