Microsoft Build 2025

May 19, 2025 · 1h 59m · Seattle

• Satya NadellaChairman and CEO, Microsoft

Microsoft used Build 2025 to lay out an open agentic web, pairing GitHub Copilot's new coding agent with GA of Azure AI Foundry Agent Service and broad MCP support.

What it announced

• GitHub Copilot coding agent · MicrosoftAsynchronous agentic coding partner built into GitHubAnnounced
• Windows AI Foundry · MicrosoftUnified platform for the AI developer lifecycle on WindowsAnnounced
• Azure AI Foundry Agent Service · MicrosoftOrchestrates multi-agent workflows; Semantic Kernel + AutoGen in one SDKGA
• Microsoft Entra Agent ID · MicrosoftAssigns unique identities to agents to prevent agent sprawlPreview
• Model Context Protocol support · MicrosoftFirst-party MCP support across GitHub, Foundry, Copilot Studio, Windows 11Announced
• NLWeb · MicrosoftOpen project giving websites a conversational, MCP-native interfaceAnnounced
• Microsoft Discovery · MicrosoftAgentic AI platform for accelerating scientific R&DAnnounced
• Microsoft 365 Copilot Tuning · MicrosoftLow-code agent creation using a company's own dataAnnounced