MCP on Windows offers a standardized framework for AI agents to connect with native Windows apps, enabling them to easily participate in agentic interactions on Windows. Windows apps can expose specific functionality to augment the skills and capabilities of agents installed locally on a Windows PC.
This is the sort of thing iOS and Mac developers would like. Give us the ability to hook our applications up to AI agents using a well defined protocol.
While it’s not ready for prime time yet I’d imagine it will ship close to when they say it will.
Microsoft is, once again, pushing things in the right direction for developers because they know the value developers bring to Windows.
It really is too bad they missed the mobile revolution. This time they’re out front, leading.