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By The Zookeeper in Microsoft —

Microsoft Fabric Promises an AI Data Foundation, Eventually

At the FabCon and SQLCon 2026 event in Barcelona, Microsoft is heavily pushing the narrative that your existing database mess is the only thing standing between your business and autonomous productivity. The latest Microsoft Fabric and SQL innovations are pitched as the ultimate data foundation required to finally make Microsoft Copilot and enterprise agents behave themselves.

  • Microsoft continues its relentless campaign to convince corporations that a unified data platform will magically solve deep-seated organisational silos.
  • The positioning neatly shifts the blame for underwhelming AI performance away from the models and squarely onto your legacy infrastructure.
  • Enterprise architects are invited to yet another expensive conference to learn how to prepare their spreadsheets for tomorrow's chatbots.

Why should I care? Could be big
Enterprise data plumbing is important, but mostly it is just an excuse to sell you more cloud storage.

Read the original: FabCon and SQLCon 2026 in Barcelona: Building the data foundation for Microsoft Copilot and agents

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