Microsoft Ignite kicked off this week, and we’ve already seen some major announcements from the company. Many of those announcements center around agents, which have been a hot-button topic lately. The newly announced data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://click.linksynergy.com/deeplink?id=kXQk6%2AivFEQ&mid=46107&u1=wp-us-1223707699256800965&murl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fmicrosoft-365%2Fblog%2F2025%2F11%2F18%2Fmicrosoft-agent-365-the-control-plane-for-ai-agents%2F%3Fmsockid%3D06dc292e5deb66d1266a3ce65c0b679c” data-url=”https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2025/11/18/microsoft-agent-365-the-control-plane-for-ai-agents/?msockid=06dc292e5deb66d1266a3ce65c0b679c” target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” rel=”sponsored noopener” data-hl-processed=”hawklinks” data-google-interstitial=”false” data-placeholder-url=”https://click.linksynergy.com/deeplink?id=kXQk6%2AivFEQ&mid=46107&u1=hawk-custom-tracking&murl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fmicrosoft-365%2Fblog%2F2025%2F11%2F18%2Fmicrosoft-agent-365-the-control-plane-for-ai-agents%2F%3Fmsockid%3D06dc292e5deb66d1266a3ce65c0b679c” data-merchant-name=”Microsoft for Business” data-merchant-id=”179551″ data-merchant-network=”LS” data-merchant-url=”microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365″ data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link”>Microsoft Agent 365 will help organizations manage and deploy agents.
Agents are data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-redirect=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/artificial-intelligence” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence”>AI tools designed to automate specific tasks. data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot/copilot-101/copilot-ai-agents?msockid=06dc292e5deb66d1266a3ce65c0b679c” data-url=”https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot/copilot-101/copilot-ai-agents?msockid=06dc292e5deb66d1266a3ce65c0b679c” target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link”>Microsoft says people can “think of agents as the apps of the AI era,” which is quite bold considering how essential apps have become.
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