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Microsoft adopts Google’s standard for linking up AI agents
Microsoft says that it's embracing Google's recently launched open protocol, Agent2Agent, for allowing AI 'agents' to communicate with each other.
“By supporting A2A and building on our open orchestration platform, we’re laying the foundation for the next generation of software — collaborative, observable, and adaptive by design,” wrote the company in a blog post. “[C]ustomers can build complex, multi-agent workflows that span internal [agents], partner tools, and production infrastructure — while maintaining governance and service-level agreements,” the company explained in its blog post. BOOK NOW Microsoft’s decision to throw its weight behind A2A comes after the company introduced support for MCP, Anthropic’s standard for connecting AI to the systems where data resides, in Copilot Studio.
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