Office 365 Home Premium went on sale worldwide a couple of weeks ago and here are great videos to get you going. Go to each product and choose the Getting Started Videos: Get started with the new Office (Videos)

Register TODAY to attend the next free ACM Webcast, "Internet’s Future Social Implications: Upheaval or 'Trek’s' Promise?", presented on Tuesday, April 23, 2013, at 1 PM EDT (12 noon CDT/11 AM MDT/10 AM PDT/5 PM UTC), part of the ACM Learning Webinar series. The talk will be followed by a live question and answer session . ( If you'd like to attend but can't make it to the virtual event,...

I just received this report from Dave O’Leary on his experiences with the Microsoft Surface Pro: “My early experience with my Microsoft Surface “Laplet” has been positive. I now have to pack only one tool when traveling and that tool takes up much less space than my old laptop and tablet combination. For many of us, travel and working away from our office is a fact of life. The new Surface is designed...

Watch the video on the ACM Queue website, and watch for more Queue Portrait videos in the future! ACM Queue, the popular website for practitioners, is continuing its series of video interviews of today's leading computing innovators who are also members of ACM, with a spotlight on a young security researcher. The second video in the series features Ang Cui , a Ph.D. student at Columbia University in...

Speaker, author, jazz musician, software development manager http://www.linkedin.com/in/2xbass Adrian Cho is well-qualified to draw parallels between the worlds of business and the arts. His diverse career in business includes extended stints in consulting, research and development, finance, and intellectual property. At IBM Adrian is currently leading a strategic initiative across IBM software group...

We've had a great response to the various virtual training events we've been posting and we've heard that these aren't just valuable for your teams, but for you as well. Continuing along that vein, we have an upcoming virtual event series that covers the ins and outs of SQL Server 2012. Microsoft Canada is hosting Microsoft SQL Server webcast series. These events are designed to help you learn more...

Once again, Gartner has positioned Microsoft in the Leaders Quadrant in the 2013 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms , based on its completeness of vision and ability to execute in the BI and analytics market. Whether you are in the process of creating your enterprise Business Intelligence strategy or looking for a solution to provide deeper insights into specific pain...

Murray Goldberg was a tenured faculty member in the department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia, when he left to become the president and founder of WebCT, a company which grew to be the world's leading learning management system (LMS), serving 14 million students in 80 countries at 4,000 universities and colleges. Later, in 2002, Murray co-founded Silicon Chalk, a company...

The Shanghai Jiao Tong Rankings of the world’s top universities is recognized and influential. You can get rankings of the World’s Top 500 Universities; Top 200 in domains such as science, engineering, medicine; Top 200 is specialities such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, computer science and economics. Of particular interest would be the rankings in computer science with the University of Toronto...

We've gotten a lot of questions since Anthony posted about Office 365 launch for the home user . He outlined some of the great possibilities that Office 365 Home Premium created for people in the same household. Some of those questions focused on Office 365 for business. What would it look like? How would it work? When could you buy it? The great news is that we have a virtual launch...

Change is the only constant in IT shops regardless of the technology you’re managing.  Change introduces management challenges and pain that needs to be addressed. In order to address those pains Microsoft IT created Work Smart productivity guides to bridge the gap between technology and users. These Work Smart guides provide employees with scenario-based, best-use productivity aids on Microsoft...

Alain Chesnais is Past President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He served for the two-year term beginning July 1, 2010. Chesnais studied at l'Ecole Normale Supérieure de l'Enseignement Technique and l'Université de Paris VII and XI, where he earned a Maîtrise de Mathématiques, a Maîtrise de Structure Mathématique de l'Informatique, and a Diplôme...

Before assuming duties as the Assistant Director General of Communication and Information of UNESCO, Ambassador Karklinš served as the Latvian Ambassador to France, Andorra, Monaco and UNESCO. He was also the Permanent Representative of Latvia to the United Nations in Geneva. During his stay in Geneva, he served as the First Vice-Chairman, and one year later as Chairman of the Council of...

Michael Bartz is a professor of International Business Management at IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems in Austria. Before joining IMC University, he developed a management career with Philips, Capgemini and Microsoft, collecting over 17 years of management experience. At Philips he established the new business field of security surveillance recording in the 1990s. His career at Philips followed...

A few people were invited to contribute articles in honour of Kelly’s and Allan’s seminal book, Social Issues in Computing. The University of Toronto has a blog in celebration of the 40th anniversary in the publication of the pioneering work. Here are the initial entries: Authors (Kelly) Gotlieb and (Allan) Borodin interviewed: http://socialissues.cs.toronto.edu/2013/01/interview-p1/ Vint Cerf (Internet...

The 2nd Developer Movement challenge is here! Registered members, publish as many qualifying Windows Phone apps as you can from January 25 th until February 28th. The more apps you publish, the more draw entries you automatically get, and the more chances you have to win a Nokia Lumia 920. Good luck! Please read through the official Rules and Regulations for full contest details. https://www.developermovement...

We've had a great response to the IT Camps we've been delivering over the last few months. These deeply technical, hands on, scenario based training sessions have focused more on the real day to day of someone in IT , so it's no surprise that we've sold out every IT Camp we've run. You and your teams have given us some great feedback along the way about things like our scenarios, the locations we...

To listen to the interview, click on this MP3 file link DISCUSSION: Interview Time Index (MM:SS) and Topic :00:48: Since we last talked I understand that you are a new director on the Global Industry Council. Can you talk about that briefly? "....I'm very excited to be part of that group and part of that dialogue as they discuss setting international standards for technology education and...

James Maurer is a science and technical publishing professional and entrepreneur. Upon completion of his M.A. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he relocated to New York, where he took on the position of Managing Editor for Charles Scribner's Sons 16-volume reference publication, Dictionary of Scientific Biography. At Scribner's, Maurer also published The Album of Science series and...

John is CTO for SAS UK and Ireland. John's role is to advise and counsel CxOs, Directors and business managers on the capabilities and value of new methods and technologies in providing business enhancing services. John capitalizes on using practical enterprise architecture approaches to create and implement large-scale solutions and transformations for a number of Blue Chip companies. John's...

What do they have in common – appearing in the amazing CES pre-show opening keynote this week: http://live.cnet.com/Event/CES_2013_Qualcomm_keynote_live_blog?Page=0

It’s a New Year and the start of new beginnings. So what better time than now to try out something new? We’re trying out a new way to connect with you and your teams, a new way to provide you with the information you need and that you think is important. We’re introducing Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) “Office Hours” as a way to participate in a live, online discussion...

Wishing you a happy and rewarding 2013! I was in LA, Irvine, Long Beach, Claremont in Southern California in December meeting with senior executives from an accelerator, foundation, universities and Maria Klawe of HM college. One common theme was MOOCs (Massively Open Online Courses) and it’s worth looking into them such as from Courseara . This week, leaving Sunday January 6th, I’m off to the CES...

Eliezer Manor is a businessman engaged in hi-tech entrepreneurship and venture capital globally. His activities are carried out through his wholly-owned company — Shirat Enterprises Ltd., registered in Israel: http://www.shirat-enterprises.com/news . Shirat holds a portfolio of private investments and in parallel, acts as a management company with offices in Israel and in China. In addition...

The Developer Movement Challenge builds on our successful incentive program for building apps. Here’s how it works: An app builder publishes Windows 8 apps from December 6th to December 31st and gets a chance to win a Microsoft 64 GB Surface. With every qualifying app they publish they automatically get an entry into the draw. Check out the challenge here .