Satya Nadella Full Keynote Microsoft Ignite 2022

SATYA NADELLA: Hello and welcome to Ignite. It's great to be with you all today. As Judson mentioned, we are going through a period of historic economic, social and technological change. But despite all the uncertainty we continue to see in the world, one thing is clear: organizations across industries are turning to you and your digital capabilities to help them do more with less, so they can navigate this change and emerge more. powerful. You are the agents of change that make it possible to do more with less (less time, less cost, less complexity) with more innovation, more agility and more resilience.

Doing more with less does not mean working harder or longer. It's not going to escalate. It means applying technology to expand what can be done and, ultimately, what an organization can achieve amid current limitations. In recent years, we have talked extensively about digital transformation, but today we must deliver on the digital imperative for all organizations. And it all comes down to how we can help you do this with Microsoft Cloud. No other cloud offers best-in-class products and solutions. And that's what we'll focus on in Ignite this week, as we look at the five key imperatives. Let's dig deeper.

It all starts at the infrastructure layer and how we help you build agility and optimize your business with Azure. Moving to the cloud is the best way to align your IT investments to scale with demand, so you can do more with less. We see this clearly in our data: moving to Azure enables operational and cost efficiencies, and we want to help you leverage these savings to accelerate your own innovation. Azure is the only cloud that supports every organization and every workload, from enterprises to startups to highly regulated industries. Azure is the world's computer. We have more than 60 data center regions, connected by 175,000 miles of fiber.

But the thing do not ends there. We want to help you deliver the power of Azure anywhere. That's where Azure Arc comes into play. Azure Arc extends the Azure platform so you can build applications with Azure services that can run in on-premises, edge, and multi-cloud environments. As Kubernetes adoption takes off, you can use Arc to run containerized applications with AKS on Azure Stack HCI, Windows Server, Windows devices, and Windows IOT, enabling a consistent experience across Azure on-premises and edge. And we will allow AKS to run on even more platforms in the future. We also want to help you modernize your infrastructure, from the ground up, taking a systems-level approach, starting with compute.

Our new Azure virtual machines with Arm-based Ampere Altra processors run at the highest clock speed of any Arm-based processor available in the cloud today and are more cost-effective and energy efficient without compromising performance. With the new Premium SSD v2 disk storage, we offer the most advanced general-purpose block storage solution available, designed for performance-critical workloads like SAP and OLTP that consistently require sub-millisecond latency combined with IOPS and throughput. elevated. Just think about how important this is when you have a large SQL Server database that needs fast and consistent disk access. And with the new Azure Elastic SAN, we offered the industry's first

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It delivers massive scale and enables customers to seamlessly transition their SAN dataset to the cloud without having to refactor their application architectures. When we say "the trusted computing platform for every organization and every platform," we mean it. Azure is the only cloud provider that enables highly regulated industries to bring their most sensitive applications to the cloud. Azure Confidential Computing can help you protect data while it's in use, with enclaves that protect and isolate code and data in a zero-trust environment, so customers can prevent even Azure, as the provider of the cloud, get access. We provide the broadest and most complete set of virtual machines, containers, and services, powered by the latest Confidential-capable CPUs from Intel and AMD, as well as Confidential GPUs from NVIDIA.

And we continue to expand our Azure confidential computing portfolio, with confidential VM node pools on AKS, enabling seamless switching of Linux container workloads and confidential VM options on both Azure Virtual Desktop and SQL on machines. Azure Virtuals. I'm also pleased to announce the preview of Azure Managed Confidential Consortium Framework, which enables developers to build, deploy, and manage highly confidential multi-party applications. Calastone, the world's largest fund network, for example, is using the open source framework to confidentially share trading data across the asset management industry on a common infrastructure and develop new digital investment mapping models. Today, we see customers across industries using sensitive computing capabilities, from F5 to mitigate insider threat risk, HashiCorp to manage customer keys, Signal to protect customer contact data, RBC to correlate partner data with credit card transactions, Fireblocks for secure blockchain-based systems. asset and transaction tracking, and Australian startup Carbon Asset Solutions, which uses Azure Confidential Ledger to ensure the carbon credit data they collect remains secure and tamper-free, giving buyers confidence.

Now, let's move on to the data. With our Microsoft intelligent data platform, we provide a complete data fabric, from operational warehouses to analytics engines and data governance, so you can spend more time creating value and less time integrating and managing your data estate. . Our goal is to provide you with the most comprehensive end-to-end data platform, so you don't have to deal with the complexities of building and operating a cloud-scale data infrastructure yourself. Analytics alone on our intelligent data platform cost up to 59% less than any other cloud analytics out there. And today we go even further. As far as our operational databases are concerned, Azure Cosmos DB will now support distributed relational data with support for native PostgreSQL.

This offers the best of both worlds: the scalability and high performance of NoSQL, as well as the familiarity and benefits of a relational database. When it comes to analytics, with Azure Synapse, organizations can put their data to work much more quickly, productively, and securely, generating insights from their hybrid and multi-cloud data sources. We offer out-of-the-box connectors for Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, and Dataverse. And we're working with our partners to deliver more bridging connectors for even more hybrid and multi-cloud data sources. And with Synapse Data Explorer, we offer a best-in-class solution for real-time analytics, so you can reason about your streaming data in near real-time.

Finally, when it comes to governance, all of these operational and analytical capabilities that I just talked about are

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y integrated with Microsoft Purview. With Purview, organizations can scan, catalog, lineage, track, and configure data access and management policies across their entire data estate. And we know that this is a team sport. You'll hear more from Rohan about how we're working across our entire partner ecosystem to ensure category-leading solutions are deeply integrated with everything I've talked about. Now let's talk about our second imperative: delivering efficiency in automation and AI. When it comes to “doing more with less,” AI is the ultimate amplifier.

It's going to change what an app looks like, what the design language of an app is, how it's built, and how it's delivered. We are committed to realizing the promise of AI for you and doing so responsibly. We've built next-generation supercomputers in Azure that we, OpenAI, as well as customers like Meta use to train some of the largest and most powerful AI models. Azure provides nearly 2x compute performance per GPU and near-linear scaling to thousands of GPUs, powered by world-class network and system software optimization. And for inference, Azure is more cost-effective than other clouds, delivering up to twice the performance per dollar.

At Azure, we also offer best-in-class tools across the entire machine learning lifecycle, from data preparation to model management. Data scientists and machine learning engineers can use Azure Machine Learning to build, train, deploy, and operate large-scale AI models. Azure is also the best platform for PyTorch. At Ignite, we're excited to launch Azure Container for PyTorch, bringing together the latest version of PyTorch with the best optimization software for training and inference, all tested and optimized for Azure. And we help you build responsibly with tools like our Responsible AI Dashboard, which helps you evaluate the performance and fairness of your model.

We ourselves, together with our partners, use all these capabilities to train cutting-edge AI models. We are seeing exponential progress in its practical capabilities and are at a true inflection point: we have trained Turing for rich language understanding, Z-Code for translation in hundreds of languages, and Florence for ground-breaking visual recognition. The other big thing we've been doing is our work with OpenAI. We have trained the GPT family of models for human-like language generation, DALL-E for realistic image generation and editing, and Codex for code generation in over a dozen programming languages. But it is not enough to talk about these models.

It's about applying them and turning these advances into capabilities for you, which is why I'm so excited to have OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman with me here today. - Hello Sam. - Hello, Satya. - Welcome. - Thank you. You know, Sam, we've been working together for a year, or more than a year. In fact, I think the last time at Ignite was when we first announced the Azure OpenAI service here. And these next-generation models, like GPT-3 and Codex, combined with the enterprise capabilities of Azure, have been a real game-changer. It's exciting to see that so many customers, from HSBC and PwC to Shell and Wipro, are already applying these models in quite advanced scenarios such as content creation and code generation.

And I was wondering, Sam, if you could share some of the business scenarios that you've seen that excite you. SAM ALTMAN: Yes, thank you, Satya. We are very excited about the wide range of uses that customers are finding for these AI systems. Of course, many companies are using our completion endpoint to help create truly engaging content, from web copy to recruiting materials. And recently, we've seen more sophisticated applications that combine multiple AI capabilities for some really interesting use cases. For example, several Fortune 500 companies are now using a combination of our onboarding and completion endpoints together to power powerful search capabilities that significantly improve current processes.

Compliance teams can use these capabilities to search for complicated external standards documentation and then compare it to their own internal policies. And if they find gaps, they can even use these capabilities to suggest new language. This is the type of application that reduces the time spent manually comparing documents from many weeks to hours. Customers are also using that combination of onboarding and completion to help employees quickly find and synthesize answers from a huge internal knowledge base. For example, Morgan Stanley is creating an AI assistant to help its tens of thousands of wealth managers better support their clients.

The assistant combines search and content creation so that wealth managers can quickly find and adapt the right information for each client at any time. It uses advanced artificial intelligence technology to provide deep knowledge. SATYA: No, that's right, Sam. And even that content creation and search being supported by AI is just fantastic. And today, we're obviously very excited to put even more of these advancements in the hands of customers. We're bringing the power of DALL-E to the Azure OpenAI service and want all our customers to be able to apply DALL-E to any business use case, whether it's image editing and generation, or content personalization and quick-response marketing campaigns.

And in fact, we are already seeing some use casesfantastic. For example, RTL, Germany's largest media company, will create personalized images for audiobook and podcast listeners as part of its subscription service. And Mattel has been exploring using the service to spark creativity across the organization, from toy design to marketing. And with all that, Sam, what's the next frontier for OpenAI in terms of innovation? SAM: It's an exciting time. We take our role as responsible stewards of this technology very seriously, and I know you do too. That's why we're excited to collaborate with Microsoft to set the standards for industry-wide deployments and use of these powerful AI systems.

A critical part of ensuring our systems are as secure and aligned as possible is learning from real-world usage. Therefore, our approach is to implement our technology iteratively in the most responsible way possible, learning at each stage and reintroducing those learnings into the system to make it more secure. We are also working to make our AI systems smarter, more capable and more useful. We recently opened up our automatic speech recognition system, Whisper, which can transcribe complex speech more accurately than ever before, such as complicated technical terms and accents. SATYA: That's great. And I know you're also working on something else that's pretty exciting.

Do you want to share that with us? SAM: Yes, we are very excited to show you how OpenAI makes our Codex models interactive, bringing you one step closer to becoming a true pair programmer. I'd love to show you a little bit of what we're working on. Our latest Codex prototype can explain and debug your own code, learn from mistakes, and make fixes on the fly. Recently, I saw how powerful this tool could be in a programmer's workflow when I presented Codex with an issue I saw. discussed online. Let me teach you. First, we asked Codex to calculate the probability that in an eight-player single-elimination tournament, the second-best player finishes second.

This means that the best players always defeat the weakest players in each round. I'll ask Codex to solve the problem using a simulation and we'll see how it takes my address and turns it into code. To start, you can see that Codex suggests and then imports the random library to generate pseudo-random numbers. For its next steps, Codex explains this approach in natural language with detailed commentary, creating a skill list of the eight players, and outlining the tournament bracket. For each step, Codex generates and runs the code and then evaluates its results before moving forward. Now, Codex is writing the second and final round of the tournament.

Codex then checks whether this result proves or disproves the initial problem. In this random tournament, the player who lost in the final match was not the second most skilled player. To estimate the average probability after many games, Codex invokes its simulated tournament 1 million times in a row. As Codex breaks down this problem, it explains each step in natural language. And here it seems that Codex has a small error. It is estimated that the probability will be zero. Very unlikely. Codex reviews your code at every step in real time, so let's see what Codex does here. The model correctly notices and identifies the problem.

Now let's see how Codex manages to solve it. Although Codex identified the issue, it still didn't fix it correctly on the first try. With the new condition, the probability is now calculated at 100% instead of zero, which is probably still incorrect. So he tries again and now he will do it right. Here we see the power of this new model. It evaluates its code, recognizes its own errors and tries to correct them. With just the problem statement and my brief instruction, Codex solved the entire problem independently. I'm excited about how this technology will dramatically improve the productivity of software developers, bringing Codex one step closer to becoming a true pair programmer.

SATYA: Thank you very much, Sam. It is a real pleasure to work with you and your team. I am very excited about the work we are doing together and all the advancements that are to come. - Thank you, Satya. - Thank you. That was just an incredible display. We'll also bring all of these advancements to our own Microsoft services, including Microsoft Designer, the new graphic design application we announced this morning. We fundamentally believe that AI will not only amplify what we can do, but also increase our curiosity, creativity and imagination. Designer is your personal skin generator powered by the AI ​​models we just talked about, including DALL-E 2.

Create new skins that the world has never seen before and that are uniquely yours. Consider how useful this could be for a small business, for example, that wants to create images and content for social media posts, invitations, graphics, and more. We can start by writing just a few words. With just that, Designer immediately generates templates based on what you type, and you can get custom images based on your ideas. And there's no need to waste time creating a new design on your own or searching through thousands of pre-designed templates. As you tell Designer what you like, the design adapts to your needs.

One more click and you will have a design ready to use and you can share it with the world however you want. It's pretty fantastic. We're bringing the power of DALL-E 2 in Designer not only to our own app, but also to our new Image Creator tool in Bing and Edge. For years, we have limited ourselves to searching for images that already exist on the web. Soon you'll be able to turn your own words into images you want to see! But it goes beyond that. We imagine a world where everyone, regardless of their profession, can have an experience like this in everything they do.

That includes sales. We're applying conversational intelligence to Viva Sales to transcribe customer calls and automatically identify highlights and critical follow-ups to ensure better customer service. And Dynamics 365 uses the same capabilities to help sellers identify new opportunities and suggest next steps to close deals. We're also applying these models to transform the way people build software, which brings us to the third imperative: innovate with the most comprehensive cloud development platform. With GitHub Copilot, we're applying Codex to suggest complete code and features in real-time, right from your editor, turning natural language cues into coding suggestions. It extracts the context of the code you're working on to finish the lines you start and even suggest entire functions.

We'll also quickly add some of the features Sam showed off to Copilot. Like the rise of compilers and interpreters, we believe AI-assisted coding will fundamentally change the nature of software development, giving developers a new tool to write better code easier and faster. And for Copilot users, you're already writing 40% of the code and developers can code more than 50% faster. They tell us that they feel more satisfied and less frustrated when they code and that they can ultimately do more with less. And we won't stop there. We're experimenting with new features through GitHub Copilot Labs. Like Explain Code, which lets you highlight a block of code and see what it does in plain English.

And Translate Code, which allows you to select a language and translate the code into it. We'll share a lot more about our plans with GitHub Copilot on GitHub Universe next month. When we think about the future of software creation, it's clear that innovation and creating great app experiences is the job of everyone in the organization. 70% of new apps will use low-code and no-code by 2025, up from 25% in 2020. And we're turning low-code into no-code with the power of AI. We're bringing the same principles and capabilities behind Copilot to the Power Platform. With Express Design in Power Apps, you can upload a hand-drawn sketch and it will become a functional app in seconds.

It is easy. You can also describe what you want to do in natural languages ​​and Power Apps will generate a list of the most relevant Power Fx formulas for you to choose from. Basically, the code writes itself. And we're going even further, bringing AI-powered Copilot capabilities to Power Automate. You can describe what you want to automate and it will generate suggested flows to drive flow creation. And all that's left for you to do is simply configure the connectors and finalize the flow design. It has never been easier for you to create advanced automation workflows. The bottom line is that it can't be the data scientists or professional developers in your organization who are creating these new capabilities for you.

It's about empowering everyone. Think about your domain experts, your developers. For AI to deliver business value, they cannot be disconnected. That's why I'm so excited about AI Builder, which makes it easy to add intelligence to the apps and workflows you build. You can use pre-built models for common business scenarios, such as sentiment analysis or invoice processing, or implement custom models. Today we're introducing new capabilities in AI Builder, including the "feedback loop," which retrains models to continually improve their performance and accuracy. One of the most common use cases we see for AI is displaying the right content at the right time.

How do you take any organization's enormous amount of content (proposals, contracts, presentations, designs, invoices, legal documents) and use AI to incorporate it into the workflow as well as the business process? Today we're introducing Microsoft Syntex, which uses our AI Builder and Power Automate capabilities to automatically read, tag, and index large volumes of content and display it wherever needed. Syntex includes AI-powered summarization, translation, auto-assembly, and annotation features, and of course, is integrated into Microsoft 365 and Teams. Take a series of PDF files or Word documents in a foreign language, for example, and Syntex will translate them instantly. Open the translated document and Syntex can summarize it, providing highlights and links to the most important information.

It's pretty fantastic. Now, let's move on to our next imperative: revitalizing your workforce. We are experiencing a once-in-a-lifetime change in work patterns. We are not going back to 2019. We need to accept and find a new way forward. And we must directly address the lessons we have learned in recent years. Our latest Workplace Trends Index identifies three clear priorities for every organization: We need to stop the endless "productivity paranoia." People are working harder than ever, but leaders still worry that employees aren't doing their jobs. We need to embrace data over dogma and realign organizations around the work that matters most.

We need to accept that people come to the office for each other, not for politics. And, as leaders, we must rehire our employees. Recruitment does not end when the job offer is accepted. Leaders must continually help their employees learn new skills or risk losing them. Employees must be empowered and energized to do meaningful work that allows them to thrive. To do so, organizations need a new system to generate human, social and knowledge capital throughout the organization. You should help people feel aligned with the company's mission, purpose, and business priorities. You need to help them connect with each other wherever they are and wherever they are working.

You should help them continually develop new skills in the workflow. And all of these things need to work in harmony to have a workforce that thrives. That's what Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Viva allow. With Microsoft 365, we deliver a complete cloud-centric experience that improves the work of today's distributed and digitally connected workforce. Customers can save more than 60% compared to a patchwork of solutions. Microsoft 365 includes Teams, plus the apps you've always relied on (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook), as well as new apps for creation and expression like Loop, Clipchamp, Stream, Designer. And it's all built on Microsoft Graph, which makes information about people, their relationships, all their work artifacts (meetings, events, documents) available to you in one interconnected system.

Thanks to Graph, you can understand how work is changing and how your digitally distributed workforce is working. This is very critical. It all comes to life in the new Microsoft 365 app. Provides personalized recommendations powered by Graph. Gather all your toolsfavorite productivity, as well as third-party solutions you choose to add. It's your go-to app for all the ways you work today. Now, let's talk about Microsoft Teams. Work does not happen in a vacuum. Must be excellent at sync, asynchronous, in-person and remote collaboration. In a previous era, you could get away with one or two of these quadrants, but now you need all four quadrants to be excellent at any given time for work to get done and collaboration to occur.

Teams supports all the ways people work today. It has become essential to the way hundreds of millions of people meet, call, chat, collaborate and do business. We have introduced more than 450 capabilities over the past year. And today we're announcing new Teams features at Ignite to help you not only have better meetings but also change meeting culture. This includes Teams Premium, which offers advanced meeting protection, so you never have to worry about your most sensitive conversations being shared. And also smart summary, which uses AI to assign tasks during meetings and highlight important moments in the recording. Forget about having to attend each and every meeting again.

The best app, of course, for Teams is the Teams app platform and how it has become the organizing layer for all the apps you can use to run your business. Just as mobile devices completely transformed the way people consume software, we're seeing collaborative apps in Teams transform the way people work together. Collaborative applications represent a paradigm shift in how applications are built. Instead of applications being the focal point where users go, collaborative applications bring business workflows, data and valuable information to where users are. More than 1,600 third-party apps are currently available on the Teams App Store, and more than 100,000 businesses have deployed their own custom line of business apps on Teams.

We're seeing leaders across industries, from Canva to ServiceNow, create apps that deeply integrate Teams and Microsoft 365 into their workflows. 3M has created a "Post-It" app in Teams to support all the ways people exchange ideas and collaborate, including taking notes on Post-Its. Handwritten Post-It notes transform seamlessly into a digital whiteboard just by taking a photo. Using the power of Graph, the app assigns tasks, displays relevant documents, automatically groups content, and includes relevant notes, all within the Teams meeting experience. SAP is building a Teams app, so you can access and update real-time data from SAP S/4HANA Cloud directly within a Teams chat.

And because the experience is built using adaptive card-based Loop components, data can be shared across Outlook and kept synchronized across SAP, Teams, and Outlook, making it easy for employees to always have access to the latest information. where they prefer. work. Loop components based on adaptive cards will be generally available next year. Power Platform and Teams also make it easy for anyone to create and deploy collaborative applications. American Airlines, for example, has used Power Apps to create a collaborative application that brings together ground staff with its flight crews, in order to speed up response times at its gates.

Let's shoot the video. SHALINI NEELANKAVIL: We are American Airlines and we are the largest airline in the world. Every day, in DFW alone, between 700 and 900 flights take off. From gate agents, flight attendants, pilots or behind-the-scenes staff, they all play a key role in getting you to the right destination on time. Collaboration and communication in a timely manner is very, very key. CHAITANYA KOMMIDI: It's like orchestrating a musical, only more difficult. What we built previously was an app that bridged the gap between different work groups at airports, but it had a problem. The key thing we are looking for is that it is faster, cheaper and better.

SHALINI NEELANKAVIL: ConnectMe is a hybrid microservice tool, layered on top of Teams and Power Platform. With the new Teams platform, it's actually down to a quarter of the cost. Twenty hours before the flight departure, we create a flight channel and automatically subscribe everyone responsible for making the flight arrive on time. CHAITANYA KOMMIDI: There is no end to the type of information that can be transmitted. SHALINI NEELANKAVIL: Let's say you're the client who has a close connection. A gate agent could send a message through ConnectMe Teams to say, "Hey, this is a tight connection and you need to prioritize these bags or yours." CHAITANYA KOMMIDI: We needed a platform that fit the digital transformation journey we are embarking on.

Teams and Power Apps were perfect for that. SHALINI NEELANKAVIL: We care about our customers' journey and time is of the essence. A company like American, this is one of the best things that has ever happened to us or our front line. I love how American Airlines has used Teams as a platform to connect thousands of their employees to do more with less. When it comes to new patterns of collaboration, our approach extends to where people work, so you can unlock productivity wherever you are. With Teams Rooms, bring Teams to a growing ecosystem of devices and space configurations to help people stay connected and participate from anywhere.

And I'm very excited to announce that Cisco will become a Microsoft Teams Rooms Certified Device Partner and will run Teams Rooms on Android natively on their room systems. The certified device portfolio will include multiple meeting devices and peripherals, with more to come. Our approach to space extends to the metaverse and how we are bridging the digital and physical worlds. We're taking an approach to ensure that all of our software can benefit users on all of their favorite devices. Just yesterday we announced with Meta that we're bringing immersive Teams meeting experiences to Quest, so you can connect, share, and collaborate in VR as if you were together in person.

And today, I'm thrilled to announce the private preview of Mesh avatars in Microsoft Teams globally. Customers will be able to create their avatars in a way that reflects their identity and can represent them in meetings, giving them the flexibility and option to be present without having to turn on a camera. These same paradigm shifts – the digitization of people, places and processes – are also occurring in the industrial metaverse. Judson will tell you later today how many of our customers, including Mercedes-Benz, Coca-Cola Hellenic and Equinor, are using our tools to automate, simulate and predict any business function or process.

And we won't stop there. We want to help you evolve and manage your space for both hybrid and in-person work. Today's hybrid workplace is often too ad hoc. Leaders are being asked to reconsider their real estate portfolio with very limited data. And employees are asked to come to the office with a very limited understanding of why they should do so in the first place. That's why we're introducing a new Connected Workplace category and announcing Microsoft Places. We want to help you turn your space into a place. A space becomes a place when people give it meaning.

Think about the importance of the Outlook calendar for organizing when people meet and collaborate. Places will do the same with where. Don't just say: show up to a meeting. You show up with purpose and connection. So we're creating a new system to help you create a venue, including tools to help you see when your colleagues are planning to come, which meetings are best suited to be in person, and reserve the right venue for you. And, for leaders, we provide recommendations on how to transform your space into a place. We'll see. New ways of working hold great promise and at the same time create new challenges.

But change brings opportunity, and Microsoft can help coordinate where work gets done to prioritize your time and maximize in-person connections, reshape the office experience with smart technology, and optimize the places where you work to be more dynamic and sustainable. Introducing Microsoft Places. Transform your space into a place, at the office, at home and everywhere in between. Microsoft Places will be available next year. Finally, let's talk about Microsoft Viva. When work increasingly happens anywhere, anytime, the employee experience must adapt accordingly. Microsoft Viva is the first employee experience platform for hybrid work. Bring insights, connections, purpose, and growth to the workflow to empower employees and teams to be their best.

Viva provides a system for leaders and employees to receive actionable insights and feedback, connect the entire company from the front line to the CEO, align an organization's goals, and learn new skills, so they can collectively drive better business results. Last month, we announced the availability of new capabilities that incorporate business objectives into the flow of daily work, making it easier to share OKRs and track progress across the organization. Think how powerful that is. When all your objectives and key results are shared across the organization, everyone aligns. Viva helps every employee excel, and we're also expanding Viva with customized solutions to meet the specific needs of each job role.

For example, Viva Sales, which became generally available last week, provides sellers with a unified view of their activities, bringing real-time CRM data directly into their customer interactions in Teams and Outlook. And in the near future we will have more specific solutions for each function. Just as we're building Teams, Viva, and Places for this new era of work, there are two other platforms I want to talk about: Edge and Windows. With Edge, our mission is to create the most secure and productive browser. Edge, no questions asked, is the best browser for business. Edge makes it easy to protect your organization's data and your online privacy.

Edge offers the highest phishing and malware protection on Windows, and we're investing in features like website typo protection. I'm also very excited to introduce Edge Workspaces, a brand new experience that allows everyone working on a project to see the same set of websites, web apps, and files in one place, so they can stay on the same page. It's about making web browsing multiplayer. Instead of sending links via email or chat, you can open an Edge workspace and access a shared set of tabs. When it comes to Windows, we are fundamentally redesigning the operating system from client to cloud for hybrid work.

Windows 11 is designed for the future of work today. And from the new PCs we announced this morning to the expansion of our cloud offering from Windows 365 to Azure Virtual Desktop, Windows continues to evolve to work like you. Start by making yourself more secure with new cloud-powered features. Improved phishing protection helps you better understand whether something is malicious or clean. The combination of Windows Enterprise and Intune helps make your endpoints less vulnerable to evolving security threats. And with Windows 365, we're transforming the way you experience Windows by combining the power of Windows PCs with Azure computing. Windows 365 is a completely unique SaaS offering, built for this era of distributed workforce.

What this means is that you can now access your cloud PC directly from the Windows 11 taskbar or Start menu. And we also announced the availability of Windows 365 Government and an Enterprise multi-user plan designed for frontline workers and by turns. Panos will share more tomorrow about these and new Windows features and how your organization can benefit. Now, let's move on to our last imperative: security. As the pace of threats accelerates, this is a top priority for all organizations. Protection is complex and can be expensive. Every organization experiences this, with so many different devices, connections to partners, and an ever-changing deployment of cloud resources.

The more agile you become, the harder your security team will struggle to manage risk. And the more connected we are, the faster a successful attacker can move laterally through the enterprise to their target. For too long, customers have been forced to adopt multiple disconnected solutions from disparate sources that do not integrate well and leavegaps. We offer a better option: a natively integrated security solution that is supported by a vibrant ecosystem of partners. It starts with Microsoft Entra, our new identity and access vision and portfolio. It extends to Microsoft Purview, which I mentioned earlier is the future of compliance and data governance, as well as Microsoft Priva to help you manage privacy and Microsoft Intune to protect and manage your endpoints and of course Microsoft Defender and Sentinel .

You get a comprehensive solution that closes gaps and works for you at machine speed. On average, customers save more than 60% when they turn to us, compared to a multi-vendor solution. Our approach extends across all clouds and all platforms, and we're investing to protect it. Today, we're introducing new innovations in Defender for Cloud, including improved security posture management that will help you focus on the most critical risks and provide integrated security recommendations for multiple clouds. The new Defender for DevOps helps you protect the entire development lifecycle and unify DevOps security management across multiple environments. We're also adding automatic attack stopping to Defender to limit lateral movement and help you stop ransomware before it has a chance to encrypt your data.

And we're adding new identity governance capabilities to Entra, providing even greater control over digital identities on-premises and in the cloud, so only the right people have the right access to the right resources at the right time, resulting in which is very critical. in a world where everything is just a login away. I'll end where I started. These are the digital imperatives for every organization. And what I've shared with you is just a snapshot of what you'll see this week at Ignite. We're introducing more than 100 updates to Microsoft Cloud to help you do more with less. These are your basic components.

Ultimately, it all comes down to the results you get with these platforms and tools, and how you can transform your business, your industry, and the world. Nonprofit organizations are a great example of the possibilities. They are on the front lines of many of our world's most pressing challenges and embody what it means to do more with less. We are committed to doing our part to ensure that technology can help you help the world. And over the next five years, we'll double the number of nonprofits we reach around the world with technology discounts and grants to help amplify their impact.

So let's take a look and thank you all very much. Enjoy the rest of Ignite. SPEAKER 1: The problem is incredibly big. There is a crisis. SPEAKER 2: Forests provide clean air and water. There is a lot at stake. SPEAKER 3: I don't like losing a rhino. That is my goal. If you touch the rhino, you touch me. SPEAKER 4: I wanted to train women in basic computer skills. Now here come people who train me how to do it. And then give me the opportunity to train others. It was like a dream come true. SPEAKER 5: We are now at the forefront of the second war against rhinos.

The rangers just want to save the rhinos, they don't want to be technical. That's why we started looking at Azure and the cloud. SPEAKER 6: Through the fundraising and engagement created with Microsoft solutions, Right To Play will be able to expand the impact of our programs and impact the lives of many more of the world's most vulnerable children. SPEAKER 7: I was asking for some kind of hope that you are not alone in this and Team Rubicon gave me that hope. They said: 'we're not going to leave you like this.' SPEAKER 8: All of you were able to save my house.

Thank you. SPEAKER 9: There are so many problems we can solve with technology. It is only limited by our imagination.