Microsoft’s Radical Bet Turns Windows Into an AI Playground
Summary
At this week’s Microsoft Build 2025, CEO Satya Nadella said the internet’s legacy systems need to be reconfigured to work with the coming wave of AI agents. Read more: From Spark to Strategy: How Product Leaders Are Using GenAI to Gain a Competitive Edge At Build, Microsoft announced a slew of foundational updates that will enable autonomous AI agents to reason, act, and collaborate directly within Windows, turning the world’s most widely used desktop operating system into an intelligent platform for a new generation of software. “We’re going to be doing a whole bunch of work over the next handful of months with our partners and collaborators at Anthropic to make sure that the really tough enterprise problems that need to be solved on top of a protocol like MCP get resolved,” Nadella said. Foundry Local is built into Windows and works with new AI-powered PCs, making it easier for developers to create intelligent software that understands what users need and gets things done for them. Microsoft is working with companies like Tripadvisor to deploy NLWeb so their websites can let AI agents search and book trips directly.