agentic ai

Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft’s executive vice president and consumer chief marketing officer, plans to leave Microsoft after the 2026–27 fiscal year, after spending his final year helping reshape Windows for what the company calls the agentic era. That phrasing matters more than the retirement notice...

Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft’s longtime consumer marketing chief and one of the most visible executives behind Windows, Bing, Surface, Xbox, and Copilot, is leaving the company after 35 years while staying through the next fiscal year to help steer Windows toward Microsoft’s agentic AI vision. That...

Microsoft introduced agentic browsing for Microsoft Edge for Business on May 20, 2026, putting Copilot into a limited preview where it can navigate approved websites, fill forms, and complete multi-step browser workflows under IT policy control. The announcement is less about one flashy AI...

NTT DATA has signed a definitive agreement to acquire WinWire, a Santa Clara-based Microsoft partner focused on Azure, data engineering, cloud-native development and agentic AI, in a deal announced in May 2026, with closing subject to customary approvals and financial terms undisclosed. The...

OneStream on May 19, 2026 announced generally available agentic AI capabilities for corporate finance, including a Finance Agentic Layer that lets its governed OneStream data and agents interoperate with external AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Microsoft Copilot. The announcement is less...

Microsoft on May 20, 2026, announced RAMPART and Clarity, two open source AI safety tools aimed at helping developers test agent behavior in CI pipelines and examine product assumptions before implementation, as enterprise agents gain access to email, CRM records, code execution, and business...

NTT DATA announced on May 18, 2026, from Plano, Texas, that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire WinWire, a Santa Clara-based Microsoft partner focused on agentic AI, Azure AI, data engineering, and cloud-native enterprise application development. The transaction is less a...

NTT DATA announced on May 15, 2026, from Plano, Texas, that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire WinWire, a California-based Microsoft partner specializing in agentic AI, Azure cloud development, data engineering, and enterprise application modernization. The deal is not just another...

Novo Nordisk said on May 19, 2026, that it has deployed an internal Azure-based reasoning agent built with Microsoft to help researchers run exploratory clinical analyses in minutes rather than weeks across its governed research data estate. The claim is not that a chatbot has discovered the...

NTT DATA announced on May 18, 2026, that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire WinWire, a Santa Clara-based Microsoft partner specializing in Azure AI, data engineering, cloud-native development, and agentic AI for enterprise customers. The deal is less a routine services roll-up than...

Verint announced on May 19, 2026, in Melville, New York, that its Calabrio Workforce Management platform has earned Microsoft’s Solutions Partner with certified software designation for Healthcare AI and Financial Services AI, positioning the contact-center workforce tool more tightly inside...

Digitate said on May 19, 2026, that its ignio platform has earned Microsoft’s Solutions Partner with certified software designation for Azure, including certified software recognition across Azure, Retail AI, Manufacturing AI, and Financial Services AI categories. The announcement is not merely...

NTT DATA said on May 18, 2026, that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Santa Clara-based WinWire, a Microsoft partner focused on Azure, data engineering, cloud-native development, and agentic AI, adding more than 1,000 Azure engineers and AI specialists after closing. The deal is...

NTT DATA signed a definitive agreement in May 2026 to acquire Santa Clara-based WinWire, a Microsoft-focused AI and Azure services partner, adding more than 1,000 Azure engineers and AI specialists to expand enterprise AI, agentic AI, data engineering, and cloud-native transformation work. The...

NTT DATA said on May 18, 2026, that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Santa Clara-based WinWire, a Microsoft-focused services partner specializing in agentic AI, Azure AI, data engineering, and cloud-native application development. The deal is not just another systems-integrator...

NTT DATA announced on May 18, 2026, that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire WinWire, a Santa Clara-based Microsoft partner with delivery centers in India, adding more than 1,000 Azure engineers and AI specialists to expand enterprise AI and Microsoft cloud transformation services...

NTT DATA said on May 15, 2026, from Plano, Texas, that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire WinWire, a Santa Clara-based Microsoft partner focused on agentic AI, Azure, data engineering, and cloud-native application development. The deal is not just another services roll-up dressed in...

On May 15, 2026, NTT DATA said it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire WinWire, a Santa Clara-based Microsoft partner focused on Azure, data engineering, cloud-native development, and agentic AI, with the deal subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals. The...

NTT DATA has signed a definitive agreement to acquire WinWire, a Santa Clara-based Microsoft partner with delivery centers in India, to expand its Azure, data engineering, cloud-native development, and agentic AI capabilities for enterprise customers. The transaction, still subject to closing...

NTT DATA signed a definitive agreement in May 2026 to acquire Santa Clara-based WinWire, a Microsoft-focused cloud and AI consultancy with delivery centers in India and more than 1,000 Azure engineers and AI specialists. The deal is less about buying another systems integrator than about buying...