Microsoft Ignite 2024: Empowering partners to drive growth and innovation
Today marked the start of Microsoft Ignite, our biggest customer and partner event of the year, showcasing the latest innovation, product updates, and breakthroughs across our business. Partners from around the world joined us to learn how Microsoft is investing in partner success and creating new opportunities to accelerate growth and help customers transform their businesses with AI. Today, we are announcing upwards of 80 new products and features, including new capabilities in Microsoft 365 Copilot, additions to the Copilot + AI stack and new Copilot+ devices offerings. Underpinning each of these innovations is our commitment to security. Microsoft 365 Copilot – Microsoft 365 Copilot is your AI assistant for work, and we have seen the momentum grow as more organizations are moving to Copilot and using it successfully to increase employee productivity. Microsoft is continuing to supercharge productivity with new capabilities in Microsoft 365 Copilot designed to help simplify the workday. Copilot + AI Stack – The Copilot stack empowers users to build more ambitious products by leveraging advanced technology at each layer of the stack. Today we’re announcing Azure AI Foundry, where organizations design, customize, and manage the next generation of AI apps and agents at scale. Azure AI Foundry brings together our wide collection of foundation, open, industry, and task models, AI tooling, and safety and monitoring solutions into a single experience. Foundry helps businesses efficiently and cost-effectively design and scale their AI applications while empowering IT pros to manage AI safety, reliability, and performance. Security – Since launching our Secure Future Initiative (SFI) one year ago, we have made security the No. 1 job of every employee at Microsoft, dedicated 34,000 engineers to this focus and, at Ignite, we are announcing innovations that are rooted in our SFI principles: secure by design, secure by default, and secure operations. These are just some of the over 200 announcements made at Microsoft Ignite today. For the full list be sure to check out the Microsoft Ignite blog and the event Book of News. Continue reading here
