# Autodesk x Microsoft (Strategic Alliance): partnership

Canonical ID: `ba2dbbdd-25e2-4b35-ac35-65f9f1dd0ae4`

Autodesk and Microsoft formed a strategic alliance to help customers create, manage, and share critical design data across the product and project life-cycle. The alliance includes alignment of Autodesk's DWF technology with Microsoft's XAML platform, and has continued into AI-powered design workflows as of 2025.

- **Type:** technology
- **Status:** active
- **Verification posture:** reported (press-release-only)

## Parties (2)

- Microsoft _(off-registry)_ technology provider
- [Autodesk](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/autodesk.md) technology provider

## Timeline

- **Announced:** 2005-12-13

## Sources (1)

1. https://news.microsoft.com/source/2005/12/13/microsoft-and-autodesk-broaden-strategic-alliance-to-enhance-productivity-in-manufacturing-engineering-and-construction-industries/


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