At its Build developer conference, Microsoft is launching Microsoft Execution Containers, a police-driven layer to make it more secure to run things like OpenClaw on Windows. It’s going a step further too, by allowing a companion app for OpenClaw to run contained on Windows PCs. It should stop AI agents like OpenClaw from deleting all your files. “You can totally run OpenClaw inside your company now,” says OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger. [Image: OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger at Microsoft Build. https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/openclawwindows.jpg?quality=90&strip=all]

At its Build developer conference, Microsoft is launching Microsoft Execution Containers, a police-driven layer to make it more secure to run things like OpenClaw on Windows. It’s…

Tech people will say everyone's already using OpenClaw. They're right. But Microsoft is the one with 1.4 billion Windows users to adopt it.

A few days after Google introduced its OpenClaw-based AI agent with Spark, Microsoft is now doing the same with Scout. The new AI tool is the first...