This blog post is the third 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. Seeing is knowing—the power of agent observability As agentic AI becomes more central to enterprise workflows, ensuring reliability, safety, and performance is critical.…
From startups to industry-leading enterprises, there is an insatiable desire for organizations to experiment with the idea of how the world could work differently. They explore bold, new ways for society to operate and meet market demand by focusing their efforts on developing innovative products and services. With 78% of companies using AI in at least one…
At Microsoft, secure design begins at the foundation of our computing stack—the silicon level—and extends through every layer of the cloud. Since launching the Secure Future Initiative (SFI)—a company-wide commitment to security, we continue to prioritize delivering products and solutions that are secure by design, secure by default, and secure in operation. SFI sits at…
Microsoft’s engagement with the open source community has transformed the company from a one-time skeptic to now being one of the world’s leading open source contributors. In fact, over the past three years, Microsoft Azure has been the largest public cloud contributor (and the second largest overall contributor) to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).…
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…