Inside Track
Customer Zero
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Prioritizing AI transformation opportunities in Microsoft Finance
When organizations begin adopting AI, one of the first important questions to be answered is where to start. The needs and options across different teams…
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Transforming the data foundation behind our datacenter expansion at Microsoft
The team building our datacenters here at Microsoft needed to get organized. Microsoft Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I), our organization that plans, builds, and operates…
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From alerts to action: How AI agents are reshaping network operations at Microsoft
A network connectivity incident doesn’t begin when someone asks whether they can get online. It starts earlier, with the signals coming from routers, switches, access…
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Engineering the Frontier Firm: Sharing our AI-native approach to software development
About a year ago, our teams in Microsoft Digital—the company’s IT organization—began an AI transformation the same way most organizations did: ad-hoc. Our engineers taught…
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Keeping leaders safe from cyber actors: Three lessons learned from our experience at Microsoft
Once a Marine, always a Marine. That’s certainly true for Doug Pierson, a recently retired US Marine Corps Major General who manages our Microsoft Executive…
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How we deploy and manage enterprise devices at Microsoft Digital
In a global organization such as Microsoft—with more than 220,000 employees connecting and working together from offices and remote workspaces scattered around the world—we enable…
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Start light, scale intentionally: Choosing the right Microsoft agent architecture
There’s a moment in almost every organization’s AI journey when experimentation gives way to something more difficult: Deciding which tool to rely on to build…
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Securing AI agents in the enterprise: Learnings from our journey at Microsoft
As AI agents become more sophisticated and autonomous, large enterprises like ours face a fundamental challenge: How do you enable powerful new AI experiences among…
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Enhancing Microsoft network reliability with AIOps and Network Infrastructure Copilot
In today’s rapidly evolving technology landscape, maintaining network reliability is paramount. Our team in Microsoft Digital, the company’s IT organization, keeps the company connected and…
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From AI ambition to enterprise execution: Our Customer Zero journey
For many organizations, the next phase of AI is to move beyond vision and into execution. Most leaders understand the opportunity that AI presents, but…
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From AI assistant to capable teammate: How Copilot Cowork is changing the way we work at Microsoft
Most workdays don’t fall apart because employees lack ideas. Instead, challenges arise between intention and execution. What employees need is a way to set executional…
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Resolving repetitive support tickets at Microsoft with AI automation
Across Microsoft, our product teams rely on lab environments to develop, test, validate, and troubleshoot products before they reach customers. These labs are typically made…