The walled garden cracks: Nadella bets Microsoft’s Copilots—and Azure’s next act—on A2A/MCP interoperability

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s endorsement of Google DeepMind‘s Agent2Agent (A2A) open protocol and Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) will immediately accelerate agentic AI-based collaboration and interdependence, leading to rapid gains in agentic-based apps and platforms. Nadella’s endorsement delivers the catalyst the agentic AI development community needed to fast-track their collaborations, leading to entirely new apps, platforms and networks. Having historically been open about the potential for agentic AI to integrate across platforms, yesterday’s announcement, which also unveiled upcoming support for CoPilot Studio and Foundry, set a new precedent in how committed Microsoft is to open agentic standards. On Wednesday, Nadella wrote on X (formerly Twitter) that “Open protocols like A2A and MCP are key to enabling the agentic web,” before announcin ... Read full article.