A team inside Microsoft has been quietly building a platform for devices that run AI agents instead of apps, based on Android instead of Windows.

Move over, smart speakers. Microsoft wants to unleash more powerful 'agent-first devices,' including a desk display and a badge concept that can hang around your neck.

Microsoft Project Solara previews agent-first enterprise devices built on MDEP, with badge and desk concepts that raise IT questions around identity, privacy, and management.

Project Solara is not something you’ll have to worry about killing your apps anytime soon. It’s limited to a few pieces of concept hardware and software that are awaiting the magical agents of the ...

Project Solara is an initiative by the Applied Sciences Group, led by Microsoft's Steven Bathiche, and is based on the idea that AI agents will become a 'new unit of programming' and a 'new ...