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Microsoft acquires InMage: Better business continuity with Azure
I’m pleased to announce that Microsoft has acquired InMage, an innovator in the emerging area...
Date: 07/11/2014
Satya Nadella to employees: ‘Bold ambition and our core’
In an email to employees Thursday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says Microsoft will “reinvent...
Date: 07/10/2014
Microsoft delivers updates, innovations and expansions to meet cloud demand
The following post is from Phil Sorgen, Corporate Vice President, Worldwide Partner Channel,...
Date: 07/09/2014
Weekend Reading: July 4th Edition—ISTE conference shows off Office Mix, OneNote and partner apps
In this edition of Weekend Reading, we’ve got stories on The International Society for...
Date: 07/04/2014
Microsoft joins key industry groups to deliver on promise of the Internet of Things
The following post is from Kevin Dallas, General Manager, IoT, Microsoft. The Internet of Things...
Date: 07/02/2014
Is Office exec Julia White the face of a new Microsoft?
Editor’s note: The following is a post from Thomas Kohnstamm, a writer for...
Date: 07/02/2014
Microsoft takes on global cybercrime epidemic in tenth malware disruption
Editor's Note: This blog post was updated with the following new information at 8 a.m. on July...
Date: 06/30/2014
Welcome, Cortana, part of Skype 2.19 update for Windows Phone 8.1, Windows Phone 8!
A Skype update now available for Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone 8.1 integrates Cortana,...
Date: 06/26/2014
Xbox One holiday lineup: Already more than 25 awards, 60 nominations
Xbox One’s 2014 holiday lineup of nine exclusive games, announced at E3 2014 earlier this...
Date: 06/26/2014
Mining for digital gold with Amir Netz
Editor’s note: The following is a post from Geoff Carter, a writer for microsoft.com/stories....
Date: 06/23/2014
Launch day: Surface Pro 3 is now available in the US and Canada
The Surface Pro 3 is now available at retail stores, online and through authorized resellers in the...
Date: 06/20/2014
LA County brings its 100,000 employees together with Office 365
On Wednesday, Microsoft announced that Los Angeles County is moving more than 100,000 employees...
Date: 06/18/2014
Microsoft Azure Machine Learning combines power of comprehensive machine learning with benefits of cloud
The following post is from Joseph Sirosh, Corporate Vice President of Machine Learning at Microsoft....
Date: 06/16/2014
E3: Lots of holiday Xbox One exclusives, including ‘Halo: The Master Chief Collection’ and ‘Sunset Overdrive,’ are on their way
Phil Spencer, head of Xbox, at E3 2014 in Los Angeles on Monday. Lots of great games are coming to...
Date: 06/09/2014
Weekend Reading: June 6th Edition — Nearly 40 Windows devices and phones unveiled at Computex, and the Houston school district adopts Office 365
In this edition of Weekend Reading, we’ve got stories about the new Windows devices and phones...
Date: 06/06/2014
Microsoft Azure now generally available in Brazil South region
The following post is from Takeshi Numoto, Corporate Vice President, Cloud and Enterprise Marketing,...
Date: 06/05/2014
A soulful singer’s ship comes in
Editor's note: The following is a post from Jennifer Warnick, a writer for microsoft.com/stories...
Date: 06/04/2014
Microsoft Office 365 coming to 14,000 Houston students, 1,200 teachers
Texas’ largest school district is transitioning 14,000 students and 1,200 teachers to...
Date: 06/03/2014
Microsoft helps FBI in GameOver Zeus botnet cleanup
The following post is from Richard Domingues Boscovich, Assistant General Counsel, Microsoft Digital...
Date: 06/02/2014
Microsoft hires Preston McAfee as chief economist
The following post is from Harry Shum, Executive Vice President, Technology and Research, at...
Date: 06/02/2014
The power of ‘and’
The following post is from Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice President, Cloud and Enterprise Group,...
Date: 05/30/2014
Microsoft and salesforce.com announce strategic partnership
Microsoft and salesforce.com announced a strategic partnership Thursday to connect...
Date: 05/29/2014
James Whittaker on the art of making truly killer presentations
Editor's note: The following is a post from Jennifer Warnick, a writer for...
Date: 05/29/2014
Spell e-d-u-c-a-t-i-o-n: Each spelling bee participant receives new Surface, Office 365 and Skype gift card
Yan Zhong, Skype program manager at Microsoft, far left, when she competed in the national spelling...
Date: 05/28/2014
Microsoft demos breakthrough in real-time translated conversations
The following post is from Gurdeep Pall, Corporate Vice President of Skype and Lync at Microsoft....
Date: 05/27/2014
Explore the world of Microsoft in pictures
Satya Nadella on his first day as Microsoft CEO, February 4, 2014. Photo by Brian Smale. A few weeks...
Date: 05/22/2014
10 reasons businesses need a strategy for the Internet of Things now
The following post is from Susan Hauser, Corporate Vice President, Enterprise and Partner Group,...
Date: 05/21/2014
Pre-order Surface Pro 3 now
Pre-orders for Surface Pro 3, introduced Tuesday at an event in New York, have begun. Surface Pro 3...
Date: 05/20/2014
Surface Pro 3: Sleek, lightweight and the ‘tablet that can replace your laptop’
// 1|11 Surface Pro 3: Thinner, faster, lighter May 20, 2014 Surface Pro 3 has up to nine hours of...
Date: 05/20/2014
Thin and lightweight Surface Pro 3 with 12-inch screen announced
The Surface Pro 3 – the most powerful, thinnest and lightest Surface Pro yet – was...
Date: 05/20/2014
Watch now: Surface event live webcast is underway
Grab a cup of joe and join us for the Surface event live webcast from New York City. It started at 8...
Date: 05/20/2014
Watch the Surface event live Tuesday at 8 a.m. PT
Join us at 8 a.m. PT Tuesday, May 20, when the Surface team holds a live event from New York City....
Date: 05/19/2014
Connecting Microsoft’s mobile and cloud solutions to the universe of data in SAP software
The following post is from Takeshi Numoto, Corporate Vice President, Cloud and Enterprise Marketing,...
Date: 05/19/2014
Weekend Reading: May 16th Edition — New cloud services highlighted at TechEd North America and the Windows Store gets an update
In this edition of Weekend Reading, we’ve got stories about new services announced at TechEd...
Date: 05/16/2014
The return of Master Chief: ‘Halo 5: Guardians’ coming fall 2015 on Xbox One
“Halo 5: Guardians,” the next installment in the saga of the Master Chief, will launch...
Date: 05/16/2014
Forecasting clouds – for everyone
The following post is from Frank X. Shaw, Corporate Vice President of Communications at Microsoft....
Date: 05/15/2014
Fans get more choices for Xbox One
Microsoft is bringing more value to Xbox Live Gold members and offering all Xbox 360 and Xbox One...
Date: 05/13/2014
TechEd 2014: Moving customers forward in a mobile-first, cloud-first world
The following post is from Brad Anderson, Corporate Vice President of Windows Server and System...
Date: 05/12/2014
Microsoft cybersecurity report: 70 percent decline in severe security vulnerabilities, but criminals aren’t giving up
Microsoft’s latest cybersecurity report, released Wednesday, shows a 70 percent decline in the...
Date: 05/07/2014
Find out how to build a LEGO robot with Microsoft tools
In a recent robotics competition called “Build for Good,” a handful of companies from...
Date: 05/06/2014
Baltimore County Public Schools choose 150,000 Windows devices to transform teaching and learning
Baltimore County Superintendent Dr. Dallas Dance, students, and teachers take the ultimate selfie...
Date: 05/02/2014