The Future of Windows: AI-Native Computing with Pavan Davuluri
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Hey, what's up, everybody? We are at Microsoft Ignite 2025, and today I am joined by Pavan Davalori, who heads up the Windows and Devices team at Microsoft. Thank you for having me.
It's great to be here today.
Welcome to the show. I want to start by asking you specifically, so under your leadership, Microsoft has continued to redefine what the Windows ecosystem means in an AI-driven world. Sure. How has your vision changed as AI has become basically a huge part of that?
It's a great question. I personally think of this as an amazing learning journey in itself for us, both as a team and organization in terms of how we build our product, but also how we serve the breadth of Windows customers and users, both in commercial environments, certainly in consumer, gaming, and education, and many, many other places. For us, I feel like this is a journey that started a couple of years ago, in a way. In fact, May of 2024, we started with this idea of Copilot Plus devices about the time we were also building the Copilot. And really in that window of time, one of the fundamental things that we had to think about was what was the role of Windows in this environment and how do we build Windows in a way that can contribute in this space, but was also sort of modernized to be able to be effective in the world of AI.
And so we spent a couple of years thinking about what does that mean from a system stack from the silicon platform, you know, that Windows devices are run on. What does it mean for the operating system itself in terms of being aware of AI workloads? We had to think about what the developer platform needed to be over time. And certainly we spent a good amount of time on what experiences do we want to bring to life on Windows. both as a Windows team, second from a Microsoft perspective, certainly with the co-pilot work that's happening across the company, but really for us, the magic is Windows being a platform to have others build on top of Windows, both in the consumer and commercial space. So it has been kind of a multi-step journey for us to think about the layers of how to bring value to customers at the end of the day.
Right, right. And Windows has always been the backbone. If we think of it, it's the backbone of productivity, specifically in the workplace, right? But to your point, lots of other consumer use cases. I mean, I grew up with a Windows PC in my house. Yeah, so we were a Windows family. So obviously, I've used it for everything. How do you see it evolving into a more intelligent platform, given those different layers that you have going there?
I think we should probably start with a piece that you opened with. I think a lot of customers have an expectation for resilience and security as a foundation for trust for Windows. And when we started with Windows 11, in fact, one of our core principles was making sure Windows 11 mapped to the secure future initiative work Microsoft as a company was doing to make sure secure by design, by default. We built a lot of our production systems around making sure we could deliver on that base foundation for Windows being a great, resilient, secure platform. And that's, for us, an ongoing journey. And so we continue to stay invested on it. In fact, today at Ignite, we have a ton of work in that space that we're going to share broadly.
So that's, I think, sort of the layer cake at the bottom. People expect the trust and capability of Windows as a platform. The exciting thing that we have when we think about productivity and unlocking productivity, one of our big learnings has been most customers are familiar with the Windows UX today. They understand how to get their jobs done. It's the place where they're productive all day long. They use it for a variety of instances. And so a lot of our thinking has been on how do we have AI come into your workflow as you have it today? How can Copilot be of an assistance to you in the world that you're already operating in? The simplest example I can think of is the interaction layers in Windows.
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