Microsoft has long offered a variety of marketplaces for businesses in its ecosystem. For cloud solutions, there is the Azure Marketplace, while for everything around productivity, and, more recently, AI tools, there is Microsoft AppSource. But starting today, the company is combining both of these marketplaces under the aptly named “Microsoft Marketplace” banner. As businesses increasingly adopt AI-powered apps and agents, one of the questions that companies now often face is how to find and procure these tools. During the early days of Software as a Service (SaaS), numerous marketplace solutions popped up and it’s perhaps no surprise that we are now seeing a very similar development around AI apps and, more recently, AI agents. Microsoft’s current marketplaces see about six million monthly visitors, so that’s a large market of potential customers for both large enterprises and small, specialized development shops.

Full report : Microsoft launches Microsoft Marketplace, combining Azure Marketplace and Microsoft AppSource in a single destination for cloud tools and AI apps and agents.