Inside Track
Customer Zero
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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…
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Keeping the enterprise secure by default: Secure Boot certificate updates at Microsoft
At Microsoft, we manage around 500,000 Windows client devices worldwide, from employee laptops to servers to meeting room systems. In an environment that large, it’s…
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Building a trusted IT asset inventory with Fabric and AI at Microsoft
For an enterprise company like Microsoft, understanding exactly which devices are connected to our corporate network is essential. As the company’s IT organization, we in…
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How Microsoft Digital Asia used AI to create human connection across continents
Here at Microsoft Digital, the company’s IT organization, we believe AI can be a powerful force for building community. In our Microsoft Asia region, our…