It's a good thing for projects and PM when standard consensus emerges. Risk is lower; competitive compatible products are more available; standard API's become rote.
So it is that in May of 2025 Microsoft and Google come together on a standard for AI agents, or AI-to-AI.
On Wednesday, Microsoft announced that it would bring support for Google’s Agent2Agent (A2A) spec to two of its AI development platforms, Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studio. Microsoft has also joined the A2A working group on GitHub to contribute to the protocol and tooling.“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. “The best agents won’t live in one app or cloud; they’ll operate in the flow of work, spanning models, domains, and ecosystems.”
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