Satya Nadella

Together with Activision Blizzard, we will usher in a new era of gaming that puts players and creators first and makes gaming safe, inclusive, and accessible to all.

The rate of diffusion of this next generation of AI is unlike anything we've seen, but even more remarkable is the sense of empowerment it has already unlocked in every corner of the world, including rural India.

Microsoft + GitHub = Empowering Developers

Today's Supreme Court decision is an important milestone in the hard-fought journey for equal treatment for LGBTQI+ people in the workplace, building on the foundation set by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. As the court noted in its majority opinion, “Sometimes small gestures can have unexpected consequences. Major initiatives practically guarantee them. In our time, few pieces of federal legislation rank in significance with the Civil Rights Act of 1964.” While there is much more to do to achieve equal rights and inclusion, let’s use this decision as a catalyst to drive progress in our society.

With today’s Surface announcements, we are reimagining every layer of the tech stack – from how we infuse AI from the silicon up, to device form factors and the role of operating systems – to put people at the center and empower them to create the world we want to live in.

I’m inspired by the ingenuity of Mikayla Sharrieff, India Skinner and Bria Snell. We’d love to welcome you to Microsoft to join our annual Hackathon in July.

Xbox is on a mission to bring the joy of gaming to everyone on the planet. Over the next 12 months, fans will experience our most creative and diverse line up of back-to-back game launches yet.

It’s been a busy few weeks – between today’s earnings and some of our recent announcements. Here are a few things I wanted to highlight:

We are riding multiple compounding S curves in pre-training, inference time, and systems design, driving model performance that is doubling every 6 months.

Azure is the infrastructure layer for AI, optimized across every layer: DCs, silicon, systems software, and models to lower costs and increase performance. We are delivering more performance per megawatt, lower cost per token, and faster dock-to-live times.

Frontier firms are incorporating AI into everyday workflows, transforming work and work artifacts. Microsoft 365 Copilot is now being used by hundreds of thousands of customers across industries, up 3X year-over-year.

I’m especially excited about our new Researcher and Analyst agents, like having a highly trained expert on call 24/7.

And our customers have created over 1 million agents of their own using SharePoint and Copilot Studio.

On the consumer side: Our ad revenue surpassed $20 billion over the past year. Only at Microsoft could that almost get overlooked!

LinkedIn continues to grow fast, with double-digit membership gains. And we again took share across Bing and Edge. And we are building daily engagement and successful sessions with our Copilot app, which got a big update earlier this month.

And, yes, blocks can be stars: Minecraft weekly active users jumped 75% year-over-year after the movie release.

You can read more about our results here: https://lnkd.in/gjWnuT9H

At #MSInspire, I shared how we’re innovating across the Microsoft Cloud with both best-of-category products, as well as best-of-suite solutions, to help our customers do more with less.

Our partner ecosystem is critical to our customers’ success, and today we’re introducing new capabilities across our tech stack to enable them to help organizations drive digital resilience and transformation during this time of unprecedented change.

Partnering with Dr. Herbert Diess and the entire team at Volkswagen to deliver new Azure-based services that drive innovation in connected cars and define the future of mobility for people everywhere.

There is no going back to the digital adoption levels of two years ago. There is only going forward, and the Microsoft Cloud is the most trusted and comprehensive cloud to help our partners deliver on this unprecedented opportunity.

With Dynamics 365, any business can become an AI-first business. Today we’re introducing new apps and capabilities that unify an organization's data and generate AI-driven insights.

As the world recovers from COVID-19, skilling displaced workers will be more important than ever. These stories are inspiring examples of the millions of people our global skills initiative has helped connect to new opportunity.

Our new Researcher and Analyst agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot, as well as new reasoning capabilities in Copilot Studio, will completely change the scale and scope of what any one of us can do at work:

A great read from Carlos Ghosn on continually hitting refresh, both at an organizational level and as a leader. Thanks for sharing your learnings and journey, Carlos – on taking big bets, building alliances and galvanizing teams around an ambitious goal.

As we make Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability generally available today, see how Grupo Bimbo, the world’s largest baking company, is already using the platform to help achieve net zero carbon emissions, one of its key sustainability goals.

Together with Adobe, we’re expanding our work with Walgreens Boots Alliance to digitally transform their operations, applying the power of Dynamics 365 and Adobe’s Customer Experience Management solutions to deliver more engaging and personalized omnichannel experiences for their retail and pharmacy customers around the world.

Great to be in India this week meeting with changemakers like the team at Karya, who are doing the critical work of building high-quality datasets for AI—and expanding economic opportunity at the same time.

When it comes to hybrid work, there is no one-size-fits-all approach. Today, we shared our latest Work Trend Index research and new product innovations to help people and organizations adapt to changing work norms.

Our Researcher and Analyst agents are like having a highly skilled expert on call for you 24/7 across your work data and the web. Excited to bring reasoning to Microsoft 365 Copilot & Copilot Studio today.

Today was our first Xbox Games Showcase featuring Activision, Blizzard, Bethesda, and Xbox Game Studios, alongside our amazing partners—a remarkable moment as we bring more games and ways to play to people around the world.

Thank you to my colleagues around the world who are applying their skills to make a difference in their communities when disaster strikes.

To date, we’ve helped more than 30 million job seekers gain digital skills for in-demand jobs, and today we’re expanding our global skills initiative, introducing new tools, features, and courses as we work to unlock economic opportunity for everyone.

In many ways, manufacturing has been one of the earliest industries to adopt technology. Some of our earliest systems of Information Technology were driven by the needs of manufacturers. So it’s particularly exciting to see how we're reaching an inflection point with Industry 4.0 as manufacturers harness digital technology – from IoT to Mixed Reality to AI and the cloud to transform all. This is on display at Hannover Messe this week and Tetra Paks is just one example of a company that’s building new systems of intelligence to optimize operations and deliver food and drink products safely to their customers.

Proud of this work to improve disability representation in the datasets used to train AI. Our new collaboration will broaden the diversity of AI data, and help make AI more useful for the blind and low vision community.

Democratizing AI for every person and every organization

Stories like these of Hidayah, Hasyiya, Jidapa, Saran, and Shelin remind us of the importance of ensuring everyone has access to digital skills. And it’s why we’ll equip 2.5 million people across Southeast Asia with AI skills by 2025.

Indigenous Heritage Month is an important opportunity for each of us to learn, as we aspire to uplift and preserve the cultures of Indigenous people around the world. Thank you Steven Worrall for sharing this reflection.