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CEO of Microsoft and architect of the company's $13B OpenAI investment. Integrated AI across Azure, Office, GitHub, and Bing under the Copilot brand.
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Nadella bet $13B on OpenAI and integrated AI into Microsoft's product stack faster than anyone thought possible. The Copilot rollout across Office, Azure, and GitHub is the most aggressive enterprise AI distribution play in history. His real masterstroke was structuring the deal so Microsoft wins whether OpenAI succeeds as a company or implodes from governance drama.
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MAY 15 RELEASES VS Code 1.109 adds native CLAUDE.md support and Claude agent sessions VS Code 1.109 ships native support for CLAUDE.md files, Claude-specific slash commands, and Anthropic's Agent SDK integration. Claude agent sessions now run natively inside VS Code — not a hackathon project, but a phased roadmap from a senior engineer. Visual Studio Magazine
MAY 15 RELEASES Microsoft ships Power Platform skills plugin for Claude Code The microsoft/power-platform-skills repo gives Claude Code first billing over Copilot in the description itself. Ships identical plugin manifests for three platforms: Copilot, Claude Code, and OpenAI Codex. GitHub (microsoft org)
MAY 15 RELEASES Microsoft announces WinUI agent plugin for Claude Code and Copilot A Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft built win-dev-skills with identical configs for Copilot, Claude Code, and OpenAI Codex. 64 commits co-authored by Copilot, 4 by Claude. The PR review skill uses cross-model verification — Claude orchestrators pass work to GPT-5.4 and vice versa. Microsoft DevBlog
MAY 15 POLICY Microsoft feared being 'too dependent' on OpenAI, trial testimony reveals Trial testimony in Musk v. Altman revealed Microsoft executives internally worried about becoming too dependent on a single vendor, even as they wrote billion-dollar checks to OpenAI. CNBC