Microsoft Agent 365 hits general availability today. Here is what the headlines are missing.
The GA only covers assistive agents. The kind that act on behalf of a licensed human user, inside that user's identity. Helpful, but not autonomous.
Fully autonomous agents—the ones with their own identity that pursue goals across systems on their own—remain in Frontier preview. No GA date. Industry analysts expect December 2026 at earliest.
This matters because it splits the market in two.
Okta announced yesterday that they've built governance for AI agents. They can discover shadow agents, control connections, manage permissions. They claim to address 88-90% of security incidents involving rogue agents.
Microsoft's answer is assistive-only. Okta's answer is governance-first. Neither solves the autonomous agent problem.
That's where we live.
Outermind builds autonomous agents that govern themselves. We're not trying to discover shadow agents or bolt on permissions after the fact. We're building agents that know their boundaries from the start.
Okta GA (April 30) + Microsoft Agent 365 GA (May 1) validate that autonomous agent governance is now a product category. They're the enterprise play. We're the SMB play through MSP partners.
The market just confirmed we're building in the right space.
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