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Feel like you’ve been seeing a lot of familiar faces in the news lately? Well you are! Two of Microsoft’s Chicago employees were recently featured in local media coverage: On June 7, WLS-TV (ABC) in Chicago, Ill., aired a video segment featuring Innovation for Learning (IFL), a nonprofit...

What’s important to you in your career? The potential to move up the ladder? The option to work from home? State-of-the-art technology? Microsoft’s Chicago office offers all of this and so much more! This is exactly why they recently landed on not one, but two lists in Crain’s Chicago...

Giving back to the community and supporting education is not only exceedingly important to Microsoft, but also all of its partners. Recently, Jenni Flinders, Microsoft Vice President, U.S. Partner Strategy and Programs, visited Chicago’s Alain Locke Charter School alongside Microsoft partner SWC...

Earlier this week, Microsoft sponsored the Social Media for Nonprofits conference at Columbia College in Chicago. The event was their fifth stop in a series of nine conferences across the U.S. dedicated to educating nonprofits about social media. With more than 200 attendees, the conference room was...

Instead of letting your old PC collect dust in your basement, why not donate it to a good cause? The Chicago Windows User Group (CWUG) is hosting its annual PC Recycle Drive at the Microsoft Store in Oak Brook this Thursday, Sept. 22, from 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. CT. Those who own equipment they...

Community initiatives play an important role at Microsoft, and Chicago employees have continued their generous giving efforts. Employees from the Downers Grove, Chicago, and Microsoft Store in Oak Brook donated more than 400 various items, including food, beverages, and personal hygiene items as part...

Microsoft’s mission as a company is to help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full potential. And this mission extends to the local Chicago community. Recently, Shelley Stern, Microsoft’s Citizenship director, Central and Southeast Regions, and Mary Monroy-Spampinato...

More than 18,000 Chicago Public School (CPS) students walked through their school doors Monday morning, June 12, to find freshly painted walls, colorful murals and mosaics, new landscaping and reorganized libraries. It was the work of 6,000 volunteers, including 145 Microsoft employees, of the Chicago...

This past month, Microsoft Chicago employees donated more than 100 items of clothing, including jackets, pants, suits, sweaters and shoes that any woking woman would want in her own closet. The donations were provided to Dress for Success , an international not-for-profit organization that promotes economic...

Posted by: Staci Trackey Meagher , General Manager, Midwest District, Microsoft Working for Microsoft, I have a natural passion for technology. The technology field is rapidly expanding and as a leading software company, we are constantly seeking rising talent. Often times, this talent develops...

Yesterday, Microsoft announced the 2011 U.S. Imagine Cup finalists, some of whom will go on to represent the United States in the global competition in July in New York City. The Imagine Cup is the world’s premier student technology competition that challenges students to build life-changing projects...

Today, for the first time in the U.S., Microsoft is launching Kodu Cup , a game-design competition for kids age 9-17 to win cash and prizes by creating their own video game with Microsoft Kodu Game Lab. Kodu Game Lab is a free game-design tool that enables children to design, build, and play their...

Recently the Chicago office participated in a Microsoft-sponsored Family Online Game Night with the Boys and Girls Clubs (BGC) of Chicago. More than 200 BGC members and their parents participated in the event, which helped to raise awareness about online safety, timed with Safer Internet Day. For...

Microsoft employees about to start the Kohl's Step up for Kids Challenge. Microsoft employees in the Chicago office participated in the Kohl's Step Up for Kids Challenge to raise funds for Children's Memorial Hospital . The team climbed to the top of the Aon Center in downtown Chicago (no small feat...

Microsoft today announced that it is awarding more than $5 million in cash and up to $10 million in software over the next two years to 12 non-profits in the United States that offer technology training to local communities. One of these organizations is the Erie Neighborhood House in Chicago , which...

Every year, Microsoft Chicago makes an effort to give back to the local community during the holiday season. This year, Microsoft teamed up with the United Way to provide holiday items to students at Learn Charter School in Chicago. The school has 90 students of various ages that needed help. These children...