{"id":1012133,"date":"2026-06-04T08:55:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T03:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1012133"},"modified":"2026-06-04T09:05:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T03:35:35","slug":"why-microsoft-chose-openclaw-to-build-scout-its-first-agentic-ai-offering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/04\/why-microsoft-chose-openclaw-to-build-scout-its-first-agentic-ai-offering\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Microsoft chose OpenClaw to build Scout \u2013 its first agentic AI offering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the Microsoft Build 2026 event, the company unveiled Scout as its first agentic AI offering \u2014 an always-on, proactive personal work agent that lives inside Microsoft 365 apps like Teams, Outlook, OneDrive, and SharePoint. While the world immediately drew parallels to Peter Steinberger\u2019s OpenClaw, on which it is based, there was a larger question looming on the pathways of the internet forum \u2013 why did Microsoft choose OpenClaw rather than build something of its own, in the usual Microsoft way? Why did Microsoft choose to rely on open-source software for what it believes is its next big thing? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Microsoft Build 2026 event, the company unveiled Scout as its first agentic AI offering \u2014 an always-on, proactive personal work agent that lives inside Microsoft 365 apps like Teams, Outlook, OneDrive, and SharePoint. While the world immediately drew parallels to Peter Steinberger\u2019s OpenClaw, on which it is based, there was a larger question looming on the pathways of the internet forum \u2013 why did Microsoft choose OpenClaw rather than build something of its own, in the usual Microsoft way? Why did Microsoft choose to rely on open-source software for what it believes is its next big thing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012153,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012133\/revisions\/1012153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}