Ideas from the heart could help make employment more attainable for people with disabilities
Kim Charlson was 11 when she started losing her eyesight because of glaucoma. An operation a year and a half later not only didn’t help, it resulted in complications that hastened her blindness. Her pragmatic parents insisted she learn Braille, a key to literacy for people who are blind or have low vision. Without that […]
Ideas from the heart could help make employment more attainable for people with disabilities
Kim Charlson was 11 when she started losing her eyesight because of glaucoma. An operation a year and a half later not only didn’t help, it resulted in complications that hastened her blindness. Her pragmatic parents insisted she learn Braille, a key to literacy for people who are blind or have low vision. Without that […]
Dassault Systèmes Acquires IQMS to Extend the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform to Business Operations for Small and Midsized Manufacturers
IQMS provides all-in-one solution to optimize engineering, manufacturing and business processes Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform to become the business operations platform for manufacturers, supplementing its offering for the large SOLIDWORKS install base World’s 250,000 small and midsized manufacturers seeking digital transformation in today’s Industry Renaissance can gain efficiency and agility to better serve customers […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
SAP and UNICEF Partner to Give Young People Job Skills Training to Power the Future Workforce
SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) and UNICEF today announced a new global partnership to provide quality education, life skills and job skills training to young people in disadvantaged communities, preparing them for decent work and active citizenship. Announced at an event taking place at the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, […]
How AI and Teams are benefitting the littlest of patients
Last December in Germany, beautiful twins Amelia and Bianca were born. The two share the same lively eyes and sweet smiles. But, unlike her sister, Bianca’s health is perilous. She was born with heart problems, is missing ribs and vertebrae and has only one kidney. She cannot breathe without the help of special medical equipment. […]
Leaders who revealed their disabilities found unexpected rewards — and so did their teams
Dona Sarkar leads the global Windows Insider Program. Craig Cincotta oversees communications for Microsoft Azure and Business Applications. Angela Mills manages a team working on an innovative cloud-gaming platform. All three are respected, successful senior leaders at Microsoft, but they also have something else in common: a non-apparent disability they’ve chosen to talk about. They’re […]