What they’re building
Copilot Studio for building custom copilots and agents, Azure AI Foundry as the underlying infrastructure, and autonomous agents inside Microsoft 365 Copilot that act on a user’s behalf across email, calendars, documents, and third-party services.
Company facts
Investment & ownership
Publicly traded (NASDAQ: MSFT); also OpenAI’s anchor investor, with more than $13B committed since 2019.
Key people
- Satya NadellaChairman & CEOLinkedIn
- Mustafa SuleymanCEO, Microsoft AI
Why it matters for the agentic web
Microsoft owns the software most office work already happens in. Putting agents inside Office, Teams, and Azure means hundreds of millions of workers get agentic help by default, and every business tool that wants to stay relevant has to become agent-readable.
Latest headlines
Pulled from news feeds August 18, 2026 — refreshed on the newsroom’s twice-weekly beat.
- What Copilot in Windows means for endpoint governance - TechTarget
- Copilot Chronicles, August 2026: Leading Sales & Service in the Age of AI Agents - MSDynamicsWorld.com
- How Is Salesforce Challenging ORCL & MSFT in the Agentic AI Space? - TradingView
- The agents of change: moving from automated to autonomous network management - Technology Record
- Obsidian Closes $85M Series D to Scale AI Agent Security Growth - theaiinsider.tech
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The other side of this story
Microsoft sends agents out to use the web. Our platform is the receiving end: a #name and portal make your business findable, readable, and transactable by exactly these agents.