The Official Microsoft Blog
News & Perspectives
Delivering amazing experiences is the key to customer success
The following post is from Kirill Tatarinov, Executive Vice President, Microsoft Business Solutions....
Author: Jeffrey Meisner Date: 03/04/2014
Teams, customers and the cloud that connects them
The following post is from Frank X. Shaw, Corporate Vice President of Communications at Microsoft....
Author: Jeffrey Meisner Date: 03/02/2014
Los Angeles Unified School District chooses Office 365 for faculty and staff
The Los Angeles Unified School District, the second-largest school district in the U.S., has...
Author: Suzanne Choney Date: 02/27/2014
Windows Azure services now generally available in new Japan cloud region
The following post is from Takeshi Numoto, Corporate Vice President, Cloud and Enterprise marketing,...
Author: Jeffrey Meisner Date: 02/25/2014
Wonder what the innovators do in their off time? They tinker. In The Garage.
Some of the company’s – if not the world’s – brightest minds don’t...
Author: Aimee Riordan Date: 02/25/2014
Microsoft and its partners showcase mobility solutions at HIMSS14 Annual Conference & Exhibition
The following post is from Dr. Dennis Schmuland, Chief Health Strategy Officer, U.S. Health and Life...
Author: Jeffrey Meisner Date: 02/24/2014
Mobile World Congress, Microsoft and Nokia
The following post is from Frank X. Shaw, Corporate Vice President of Communications at Microsoft....
Author: Jeffrey Meisner Date: 02/24/2014
Weekend Reading: Feb. 21st Edition — Your personal cloud is now OneDrive, and Microsoft Dynamics CRM to add marketing capabilities
In this edition of Weekend Reading, we’ve got stories about free cloud storage OneDrive being...
Author: Suzanne Choney Date: 02/21/2014
Free OneDrive cloud storage now available worldwide for Microsoft, iOS and Android devices
It’s moving day, with free cloud storage OneDrive now globally available — but you...
Author: Suzanne Choney Date: 02/19/2014
From unified to universal, the next stage for communications
The following post is from Gurdeep Singh Pall, Corporate Vice President for Lync & Skype...
Author: Jeffrey Meisner Date: 02/18/2014
Microsoft’s employees raised record-breaking $113 million for nonprofits in 2013
The following post is from Brad Smith, General Counsel and Executive Vice President, Legal &...
Author: Jeffrey Meisner Date: 02/18/2014
Computing royalty pays tribute to Butler Lampson
The following post is from Rob Knies, senior writer, Inside Microsoft Research. Butler Lampson with...
Author: Jeffrey Meisner Date: 02/14/2014
Xbox One leads US software game sales in January, nearly 740 million hours of fun since launch
The following post is from Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president, Xbox Marketing, Microsoft The...
Author: Jennifer J. Chen Date: 02/13/2014
Microsoft aviation technology flies high at the Singapore Airshow
The following post is from Susan Hauser, corporate vice president, Enterprise and Partner Group,...
Author: Jennifer J. Chen Date: 02/10/2014
Power BI for Office 365 empowers everyone to analyze, visualize and share data in the cloud
The following post is from Quentin Clark, Corporate Vice President, Data Platform Group. On Monday...
Author: Jennifer J. Chen Date: 02/10/2014
Fourth-largest US school district boots up 1:1 initiative with Microsoft technology
The following post is from Margo Day, vice president, U.S. Education, Microsoft Corp. Today, I had...
Author: Steve Clarke (Microsoft News Center) Date: 02/06/2014
Microsoft employees give new CEO Satya Nadella a ‘12th man’ welcome
On Tuesday morning, the Studio D building at Microsoft resembled a mini-version of Seattle’s...
Author: Athima Chansanchai Date: 02/04/2014
Introducing Microsoft’s new CEO: Satya Nadella
Microsoft today named Satya Nadella its next Chief Executive Officer. Formerly executive vice...
Author: Aimee Riordan Date: 02/04/2014
Watch Microsoft’s ‘Empowering’ ad from the Big Game
The following post is from Mark Penn, Executive Vice President, Advertising and Strategy As...
Author: Jennifer J. Chen Date: 02/02/2014
Microsoft contributes cloud server designs to the Open Compute Project
The following post is from Bill Laing, Corporate Vice President, Cloud & Enterprise, Microsoft....
Author: Jeffrey Meisner Date: 01/27/2014
Microsoft announces SkyDrive will soon be renamed OneDrive
SkyDrive, Microsoft’s cloud file storage program, will be getting a name change to OneDrive,...
Author: Suzanne Choney Date: 01/27/2014
Weekend Reading: Jan. 24th Edition – Kinect for Windows is helping stroke victims, Microsoft’s datacenter project will use fuel cells and Zippo chooses Microsoft Dynamics AX
In this edition of Weekend Reading, we’ve got stories about Kinect for Windows helping stroke...
Author: Suzanne Choney Date: 01/24/2014
Designing Xbox One: The inside story
On a frigid Thursday evening last November, writer Jennifer Warnick lined up at the Microsoft Store...
Author: Steve Wiens Date: 01/20/2014
Smart contact lenses emerge from basic research
The following post is from Desney Tan, a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. Tan manages the...
Author: Jeffrey Meisner Date: 01/17/2014
NPD numbers: Xbox One leads in December
December NPD Group figures released Thursday revealed Xbox One was the No. 1 selling console in the...
Author: Steve Clarke (Microsoft News Center) Date: 01/16/2014
Build 2014 registration is now open
The following is a post from Steve Guggenheimer, Microsoft's Corporate Vice President and Chief...
Author: Jeffrey Meisner Date: 01/14/2014
Three things retailers need to do now to transform their businesses with technology
The following post is from Susan Hauser, Corporate Vice President, Enterprise and Partner Group,...
Author: Jeffrey Meisner Date: 01/09/2014
Devices, services and moments
The following post is from Frank X. Shaw, Corporate Vice President of Communications, Microsoft. As...
Author: Jeffrey Meisner Date: 01/06/2014
Celebrating bravery in 2013
The following post is from Kathleen Hall, General Manager – Global Advertising, Microsoft. New...
Author: Jeffrey Meisner Date: 12/29/2013
Weekend Reading: Dec. 20th Edition–‘Biggest holiday season yet’ for Windows Phone and Windows Store apps
In this edition of Weekend Reading, we’ve got stories on the momentum building behind Windows...
Author: Athima Chansanchai Date: 12/20/2013
Microsoft celebrates 83 retail stores in 2013 with more on the way
The following post is from Jonathan Adashek, General Manager, Communications Strategy, Sales &...
Author: Jeffrey Meisner Date: 12/19/2013
Microsoft board of directors update on CEO search
The following post is from John W. Thompson, a member of Microsoft’s board of directors. On...
Author: Jeffrey Meisner Date: 12/17/2013
Former Microsoft executive tapped by White House to run HealthCare.gov site
Kurt DelBene, a former Microsoft executive, has been named senior advisor to the Secretary of Health...
Author: Suzanne Choney Date: 12/17/2013
Mark your calendars: Announcing Build 2014
The following is a post from Steve Guggenheimer, Microsoft's Corporate Vice President and Chief...
Author: Jeffrey Meisner Date: 12/13/2013
Weekend Reading: Dec. 13th Edition – Microsoft introduces the Cloud OS Network
In this edition of Weekend Reading, we’ve got stories on Microsoft’s new Cloud OS...
Author: Suzanne Choney Date: 12/13/2013
NPD numbers: Xbox One is the fastest-selling console in the US in November
Xbox has seen record-breaking sales with the recent announcement of Xbox One selling more than 2...
Author: Jennifer J. Chen Date: 12/12/2013