Microsoft, Famous for Culty Jargon, Is Naming Half Its Organization ‘Agents and Infra’
THE SO WHAT
When a company at Microsoft’s scale names half the org “Agents and Infra,” it’s treating agentic workloads and the underlying stack as a primary axis of strategy, not a feature. If you’re selling into or building on this ecosystem, expect roadmaps, budgets, and partner programs to increasingly bifurcate along those same two lanes.
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