Girl Scouts can now earn five different technology badges with Microsoft Store workshops around the U.S.
On a recent field trip to a Microsoft Store near Detroit, Joselyn Garcia, a 9-year-old Girl Scout from Lincoln Park, was excited to make a PowerPoint deck with fellow Girl Scout Juniors. They happily learned how to make slideshows with photos they took, words they wrote and visual effects they chose. The girls loved learning […]
Release wave 2 launches with over 400 updates, new apps, and industry solutions
2019 release wave 2 launches with new applications and hundreds of capabilities across Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform. Today marks the general availability of more than 400 new feature updates and capabilities across Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform. This release wave—one of our largest to date—showcases our continued investment in artificial intelligence to […]
Helping partners innovate in business applications
At Microsoft Inspire this year, more than 17,000 partners, customers and business leaders will hear our CEO and leadership talk about the critical role our partners play in enabling customers to transform their businesses across industries. Microsoft invests billions annually in innovation to bring the best products to market to support our customers, and to […]
Helping customers compete and accelerate innovation with the cloud, AI and a new approach to Talent
Ever since the mainframe, customers have been dealing with business apps that were little more than forms, over siloed data, tied to monolithic CRM and ERP suites that were hard to customize. We believe we can do better. Today, at our Business Forward event in Chicago, Judson Althoff, James Philips and I are excited to […]
Department of Health injects more clarity with Dynamics 365
There are 24.6 million people in Australia – and the Department of Health is focussed on keeping each of them well, and supporting them when they are not. The vision of the Department of Health (DoH) is simple; “Better health and wellbeing for all Australians, now and for future generations.” The challenges associated with that, […]
Renault Sport Formula One Team uses data to make rapid changes for an even faster race car
Formula 1 racing action is so fast that if you blink, you might miss it. Being in the business of speed means building cars that race at mind-blowing velocities—more than 220 miles per hour. Car configurations and new parts need to be delivered at equally incredible speeds to stay ahead of the innovation race. “We […]
It’s back to school and back to innovation with free tools for student developers
It sneaks up on me every year. One minute, my family is fully ensconced in summer break, the next we’re deep into school supply lists and pre-work to prep for the first day back. This year, as I’ve helped my own students get ready to go back to school, I’ve been thinking about all the […]
Enabling government to advance ‘tech intensity’ with newest cloud product innovations
In a world where every company is transforming to be digital, we see examples of organizations across public and private sectors embracing the concept of ‘tech intensity’ to maximize their impact. From our perspective, there are three aspects to the leadership principle of tech intensity: First, every leader will need to tune their organization to […]
Feed the world: How the USDA is using data and AI to address a critical need
Farmers around the world are facing the urgent question of how to sustainably feed a global population expected to reach 9.7 billion by 2050 — and the answer, in part, might be found nestled among the cornstalks and soybeans on a farm a short distance from Washington, D.C. The fields are outfitted with a network […]
$60 million Microsoft investment boosts King County’s efforts to preserve affordable housing in greater Seattle region
Microsoft Corp., King County Housing Authority (KCHA) and King County on Thursday announced a combined $245 million investment to protect 1,029 units of affordable rental housing throughout King County. The partnership comes in the form of a 15-year, $60 million loan from Microsoft to KCHA at below-market interest rates, combined with $20 million in low-interest […]