10 key Microsoft Ignite takeaways for CIOs

Microsoft kicked off its 2021 Ignite customer conference on March 2 with some stunning demonstrations of Mesh, a mixed-reality working environment like Second Life on steroids, accessible to anyone with a $3,500 Hololens 2 headset and high-speed internet.

Out of the spotlight, though, there were other innovations — in Microsoft Azure, Teams, and Power Platform — more likely to help the majority of CIOs deliver computing, collaboration, and coding tools to a workforce that is still socially isolated and increasingly socially divided as a result of the pandemic.