Microsoft Build 2025: Now Available in Hardcover, Paperback, and Eternal Scroll
Microsoft dropped the Build 2025 “Book of News” — and in true Clippy fashion, they offered to help… by handing us 50+ pages of AI-generated buzzwords and calling it a book. So we did the noble thing: read the whole thing, survived, and pulled out the top 10 takeaways. You’re welcome.
1. Copilot, Copilot Everywhere
They’ve officially Copilot-ified everything. Windows? Check. Azure? Check. Outlook? You bet. Your toaster? Probably on the roadmap. If it has a screen, it’s now a Copilot.
2. Microsoft Fabric Is Still a Thing, Apparently
It’s the “unified data platform for the era of AI.” Translation: it’s the thing they really want you to use instead of your ugly, cobbled-together dashboards. Power BI is now married to AI, and this is their honeymoon album.
3. GPT-4o Is Coming to Azure AI Studio
Because you can’t spell “Build buzz” without dropping OpenAI’s latest toy. GPT-4o is integrated, multimodal, and allegedly “real-time” — just like Microsoft’s dream of you never leaving Azure.
4. AI Agents Are the New Clippy
Microsoft is unleashing customizable AI agents built with Copilot Studio. They’re “goal-oriented” and “autonomous,” which sounds suspiciously like how they described Cortana before quietly pulling the plug.
5. Windows on Arm Is Back, Again, Again
A new “Copilot+ PC” is coming, powered by Arm chips and stuffed with AI features like Recall, which lets your computer hallucinate everything you’ve ever done. Privacy experts just collectively screamed into the void.
6. GitHub Copilot Gets Even More Hands-On
Dev tools are getting juiced. Copilot can now explain code, suggest fixes, write unit tests, and maybe tuck you in at night. It’s the clingy pair-programmer you never asked for.
7. Team Copilot = Clippy With a Group Chat
Now Copilot wants to join your meetings. It’ll summarize, take notes, assign tasks, and likely start subtweeting your manager if you’re not careful. Resistance is futile.
8. Azure Gets More LLMs Than a VC Group Chat
Phi-3, LLaMA 3, Mistral, Command R+, you name it — Azure is turning into an open model zoo. Bring your own AI, as long as it runs on… surprise: Azure.
9. App Development Is Now a Copilot-First Affair
From Visual Studio to Power Platform, it’s all about building apps with as little actual coding as possible. You don’t write code anymore, you “co-create experiences” while Copilot does the work and takes the credit.
10. The Word ‘AI’ Appears 468 Times
Okay, not really — but it feels that way. If you took a shot every time they said “AI,” you’d be unconscious by page three. Which, honestly, is one way to survive this Book of Buzzwords.
