Microsoft Mechanics Podcast

← Microsoft Mechanics Podcast21 aug · 15 min

Windows 365: Five Years In, See What's New

Windows 365: Five Years In, See What's New21 aug15 min

An AI agent works inside your Windows 365 Cloud PC from a Teams chat on your phone — finding downloaded files, editing documents, and drafting emails with your laptop lid closed. Microsoft Scout, a new Autopilot agent powered by the open source OpenClaw project, runs on your own Cloud PC using your identity, your files, and your apps.

Developers get a Developer Optimized Cloud PC preloaded with GitHub, VS Code, and Node.js that runs Foundry Local for token-free AI coding, and input and output protection capabilities black out the screen when anyone tries to capture a sensitive file.

Bhavya Chopra, Windows 365 Partner Director, joins Jeremy Chapman, Microsoft 365 Director, to show how Windows 365 now covers every seat — end users, developers, admins, and the AI agents working alongside them.

👥 Who it's for: architects and IT teams deploying AI agents like Scout and Windows 365 for Agents, developers who want a pre-configured cloud coding environment with local AI, security and compliance teams enforcing data loss prevention on remote desktops, and admins managing Cloud PC connection health.

⏱️ Chapters:

0:00 What's new across Windows 365 Cloud PCs

0:59 Why Cloud PC adoption keeps accelerating

2:04 Healthcare and telecom Windows 365 case studies

3:14 Sign in to a full Windows desktop anywhere

4:10 Block screenshots with input and output protection capabilities

4:35 Pull table data from images with Click to Do

5:19 Resume your Cloud PC session on an iPad