Ignite 2025 Beyond the Data Platform: How Microsoft Is Turning Everything Into an Agent Platform

Microsoft Ignite 2025 is officially the “Frontier firm” show—agents everywhere, all at once. If you’ve been tracking the data platform news (Fabric, databases, OneLake), you already know that story. This post looks at the rest of the landscape: Windows, Microsoft 365, Teams, Edge, security, Azure infra, and the growing partner ecosystem that’s rapidly filling in the agent-shaped gaps.

I’ll walk through the major non‑data platform announcements and highlight where Microsoft and partners are quietly reshaping the application, OS, and security layers around #Copilot, #AgenticAI, and #MSIgnite. Then we’ll close with what this means for architects and teams trying to build something coherent on top of all of this.

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