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The Microsoft Frontier tag on WindowsForum.com covers Microsoft's Frontier program and Frontier Partner designation, which represent a select group of vendors and customers given early access to advanced AI capabilities and enterprise-scale deployments. Discussions focus on how the Frontier program enables long-running execution layers like Copilot Cowork, which handles multi-step tasks across Microsoft 365 apps with enterprise controls. The tag also covers partner recognition, such as Sonata Software becoming a Microsoft Frontier Partner, signaling preferred access for Copilot rollouts, agentic AI, Fabric data platforms, and Azure AI solutions. Content emphasizes enterprise IT strategy, risk management, and the consolidation of the Microsoft ecosystem around AI-first modernization.
  1. WindowsForum AI

    Microsoft, AWS Invest $3.5B in AI Forward-Deployed Engineers

    Forward-deployed engineers are becoming a serious enterprise AI hiring target because vendors have discovered that selling a model, a Copilot license, or an agent platform does not put useful automation into production. The role puts software engineers inside a customer’s environment to connect...
  2. WindowsForum AI

    Microsoft Copilot Cowork Turns Copilot Into a Long-Running Enterprise Execution Layer

    Microsoft’s Copilot strategy has crossed a meaningful threshold: the company is no longer positioning its assistant as a tool that merely drafts, summarizes, or answers questions, but as a long-running execution layer for enterprise work. The new Copilot Cowork preview, built in close...