Microsoft Build 2025 Experience and Takeaways
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🚀 Microsoft Build: My First Experience!
Microsoft Build has wrapped up, and what an experience it has been! I’ve been busy helping, connecting with people, and learning as well.
Some of my highlights include:
- ✅ Supporting my Community space while also assisting at other Expert Booths, including Open Source Linux on Azure and Content Safety. Loved interacting with people!
- ✅ Completed the OpenHack challenge.
💡 My First Take
Build 2025 marked the arrival of the agentic web—where AI agents evolve from assistants to autonomous collaborators. Satya Nadella
This shift makes sense. GitHub Copilot isn’t just completing lines of code—it’s becoming a code-owning teammate that fixes bugs, writes tests, and runs builds.
🧠 The Big Shift for Devs
Microsoft shared its boldest vision yet in “Reimagining every phase of the developer lifecycle”—positioning Copilot and AI agents as foundational tools not just for writing code, but for every stage of dev:
- Plan: AI-assisted backlog grooming and architecture exploration
- Develop: Context-aware, org-trained Copilots in every IDE
- Test: AI-generated unit tests, live debugging assistants
- Deploy: Copilots that monitor rollout health and assist rollback
- Operate: SRE agents that triage incidents and generate RCA summaries
🧪 Playing with Azure AI Foundry
Azure AI Foundry = the new agent playground. It’s now fully integrated with:
- 1,900+ models from open source and commercial providers
- Support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent2Agent (A2A)
- Foundry Local lets you run models privately on Windows or Mac
- Built-in governance: Purview, Entra Agent ID, Observability out of the box
🌐 Ecosystem Expands
Notable updates:
- Grok 3 + Grok 3 Mini join the model zoo
- NVIDIA partnership for AI edge/cloud acceleration
- OpenAI Assistants API getting deep hooks into Azure + Studio
- Copilot+ PCs: New Windows devices with built-in NPU acceleration, Recall, and AI-powered workflows (details)
- Azure Compute Fleet: Unified compute management for VMs, containers, and AI workloads (details)
- Microsoft Fabric updates: Real-time intelligence, new data governance features, and tighter integration with Azure AI (details)
- Entra Agent ID: Secure, managed identity for AI agents across clouds and platforms (details)
🌐 References
🧭 Wrapping Up
Build 2025 wasn’t just “AI in dev tools.” It was a paradigm shift. From plan to prod, Microsoft is embedding agents that understand your stack, your team, and your intent.
Now’s the time to design with agents, not just for them.