Ilya Bukshteyn

As we close out Microsoft #Build 2025, one thing is clear: the future of software is being built with AI—and our partners are leading the way. This year’s announcements reflect a unified vision to empower the entire partner ecosystem, from software companies to systems integrators, managed services providers, resellers, and startups to enterprise, to innovate faster and scale smarter: • New AI capabilities and agentic tools are transforming how apps are built, deployed, and experienced. • Azure AI Foundry helps partners optimize performance, reduce costs, and accelerate time to value. • Programs like the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program and Microsoft for Startups are meeting partners where they are—with the right support at the right time. • And we’re doubling down on skilling with AI Agents Day, Certification Weeks and technical bootcamps to help every role stay ahead. This is more than a moment—it’s a movement. Let’s keep building together. Read the full blog  https://lnkd.in/gHBxDE6K

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shared insights on the artificial intelligence platform shift, describing it as being in the "middle innings." He emphasized Microsoft's systems-based strategy, aiming to cover every layer of the AI stack to democratize the technology effectively. Read more about his approach here: [Link to the article](https://lnkd.in/gU_jk2NM). #AI #Microsoft #TechnologyLeadership

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#MSIgnite highlighted the power of ubiquitous innovation and how Frontier Firms are reshaping industries. These organizations are integrating AI across their full stacks and building custom agents grounded in their own data and processes. They are moving with greater clarity, speed, and ambition. This article from GeekWire on the Microsoft Experience Center One illustrates that shift. The space is more than a collection of demos. It shows how quickly agentic systems are moving from concept to real competitive advantage for companies like BlackRock, Mercedes-Benz AG, Ralph Lauren, and others. These systems perceive context, act across tools and data, and help teams achieve outcomes that once felt out of reach. The results speak for themselves. Organizations treating AI as a strategic capability are seeing stronger ROI, faster decision cycles, and new pathways to growth. Agentic systems are not just supporting work. They are expanding what people and organizations can achieve together. The real question is how organizations will choose to apply this next wave of capability to shape their future. Read more about Experience Center One here: https://lnkd.in/gUCPtvrq

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I’m excited to share that Microsoft launched Microsoft Teams optimization for Amazon WorkSpaces. This new capability, developed in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), significantly enhances the Teams experience for Amazon WorkSpaces users by optimizing audio and video streaming performance. #euc #vdi #remotedesktop #amazonworkspaces #awseuc #amazondcv #aws #uc https://lnkd.in/dxd6fTzs

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Becoming Frontier: How Leading Organizations Partner with Microsoft to Go Further with AI AI is reshaping industries at an unprecedented rate, empowering companies to solve complex challenges, eliminate the mundane, and amplify human creativity. Microsoft’s customers are at the heart of this transformation—using our responsible, secure AI platforms to push boundaries and realize their ambitions. Here’s how some of our customers are going further with AI: - ADNOC: Unified 16 legacy HR processes into “OneTalent”, enabling every employee to be an AI collaborator. Predictive models on ENERGYai and Neuron 5 reduced plant downtime by 50%, and accelerated workflows from months to minutes. - BlackRock: Aladdin platform AI saves hours per client for relationship managers, streamlines compliance coding, and enables portfolio managers to make faster, data-driven decisions—enhancing service and compliance across 20 applications. - Epic: Agentic personas like “Art” cut after-hours clinician documentation by 60% and reduced burnout by 82%. AI boosted lung cancer detection rates to 70% (vs. 27% national average), and improved rare disease diagnosis for 13 million cases. - Harvey: Automated legal research and analysis for 74,000+ professionals. Attorneys now save 25 hours per month, and contract review times fell from hours to seconds with AI-powered document management. - Kraft Heinz: “Plant Chat” platform and AI deployments across factories yielded a 40% supply-chain waste reduction, 20% better sales forecast accuracy, and $1.1 billion in operational efficiencies since 2023. - Manus AI: Enabled multi-agent, autonomous workflows for millions, making large-scale analysis and dashboarding instant—driving strategic planning and rapid research for global users. - Nasdaq: Boardvantage platform with AI summarization saves board secretaries hundreds of hours annually, and meeting minutes features reduce workflow time by up to five hours per meeting. - Ralph Lauren: “Ask Ralph” conversational AI delivers personalized styling advice and frictionless shopping, interpreting user intent for dynamic recommendations. - Schneider Electric: Resource Advisor Copilot saves sustainability managers hundreds of hours per year and Grid AI Assistant reduced outages by 40%, improving response during critical events. - Telstra: Enabled instant, AI-driven customer knowledge access, cutting call handling times by over a minute and reducing repeat contacts almost 10%. Every day, Microsoft’s technology is turning ambition into impact for these Frontier organizations. Imagine what’s possible for your business when you demand more from AI. Read more in Judson's blog: https://lnkd.in/e8Z3rDpZ

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“A new model is emerging… new AI infrastructure will empower more thinkers to intuit new possibilities and build out new systems.” I highly recommend you check out this Fortune piece from Rubrik CEO Bipul Sinha on why AI’s massive growth means we’re set for an era of unprecedented innovation and transformation 👉 https://bit.ly/3WI0Y6U

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Frontier firms are moving fast from AI ambition to AI outcomes. At Microsoft, we built Experience Center One to help customers turn AI ambition into measurable business value. In this new executive‑briefing destination, customers work hands‑on with experts across the end‑to‑end Microsoft cloud to accelerate AI transformation.     GeekWire got a first look at the space and captured the energy behind it. As they put it, “Microsoft’s pitch isn’t just about off‑the‑shelf AI models — it’s about custom agentic systems that act on behalf of workers to complete tasks across multiple tools and data sources.”     And the results speak for themselves: an IDC study cited in the article found:  💠Companies integrating AI across an average of seven business functions are realizing 2.84x ROI, while “laggards” see 0.84x.  💠And, 88% of Frontier Firms report top‑line growth from AI initiatives vs. 23% of laggards.     Agentic AI is fast becoming the next defining chapter of a frontier organization. You can see it in the Experience Center One hands‑on demos: a custom Copilot in BlackRock’s Aladdin platform to help analysts process market data; teams of agents diagnosing factory issues for Mercedes-Benz AG in minutes instead of days; and AI‑accelerated drug discovery with Insilico Medicine compressing weeks or months of research into days or hours.     If you’re steering your company’s AI agenda, this is where we roll up our sleeves together and build what’s next.      Read: Inside Microsoft’s new “Experience Center One”: What we learned at the edge of the AI frontier — GeekWire  https://lnkd.in/g7eqxrdf Mariana Castro Monica DeMeulemeester Justin Chandoo

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Microsoft is recommending several policies to Washington state lawmakers to help speed up housing development. Read more about what it will take to close the housing gap. https://msft.it/6042QKRwa #MicrosoftEmployee

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Windows just took a bold leap forward for AI development. At Microsoft Build 2025, major updates were announced that position Windows as a leading platform for AI innovation—from silicon to user experience. The latest post from the Windows Developer Blog outlines powerful new tools and capabilities designed specifically for AI-first applications. Here are some highlights: • Windows Copilot Runtime: A new layer for AI experiences with over 40 AI APIs developers can tap into. • AI-Powered Workflows: Deep integration of local inferencing via NPUs for performance, efficiency, and privacy. • Dev Home Enhancements: Better setup, performance monitoring, and workflow management for AI-centric development. • Support for PyTorch, ONNX, WebNN, and more—making it easier to build and deploy AI models on-device. This is a strong signal: the future of Windows is deeply AI-native—and it’s opening doors for developers across industries. #MicrosoftBuild #AIDevelopment #WindowsDev #EdgeAI #NPUs #OnDeviceAI #AIDeveloperTools #AIInnovation #GenerativeAI #MachineLearning #DeveloperTools #WindowsAI #FutureOfTech Full article here: https://lnkd.in/d4sEgGBt

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Thrilled to see the incredible impact Space Intelligence is driving using Microsoft Foundry and the Microsoft Planetary Computer. Their work mapping global forests at unprecedented scale is a powerful example of how cloud, AI, and ecological expertise can accelerate climate action. By moving to Microsoft Foundry, Space Intelligence achieved 100× faster data production and cut mapping time by 75%, enabling them to map 3 billion hectares across 50+ countries in just one year. #PlanetaryComputer #AIFoundry #Azure

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