Microsoft Ignite 2025 had a different charge in the air this year — the kind you feel when the industry collectively realizes it’s moving into a new phase. From the first keynote to the last hallway conversation, the event centered on a single idea: AI is no longer a feature layered onto products. It is the operating fabric of modern enterprise work. Copilots, agents, and AI-native workflows were everywhere, not just in demos but in conversations among architects, developers, and platform teams figuring out what “running at agent scale” means for their organizations.