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Posted over 3 years ago

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With each release of Office, we’re closer to achieving what we set out to do more than 20 years ago: Helping users to work better, faster and smarter. In creating Office 2010 , we’ve invested time to listen to millions of customers, to enhance...
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Kinect Introduced at E3

Posted over 3 years ago

by Microsoft blog editor

Ever since we first demonstrated Project Natal at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) a year ago, gamers have been waiting for a chance to use the controller-free Xbox add-on. Their wait is almost over. This week at the 2010 E3, we’ve announced...
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Weekend Reading: Huge week ahead – World Cup, Office 2010, Project Natal and Xbox at E3

Posted over 3 years ago

by Microsoft blog editor

Without even standing up from my desk right now, I can see four jerseys representing four different FIFA World Cup contenders – Mexico, England, the United States, and South Africa. (OK, the South African is actually a rugby jersey…). It...
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Ballmer Surprises Chicago Students

Posted over 3 years ago

by Microsoft blog editor

Not to be outdone by the historic Chicago Blackhawks Stanley Cup win Wednesday night, Microsoft put on quite a show Thursday at the Chicago Academy for Advanced Technology. Founded only 12 months ago, “Chi Tech” (as it is called) is a proof...
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Improving Football with Analytics

Posted over 3 years ago

by Microsoft blog editor

I have a deep passion for football – or, soccer as it is called in the United States. On Friday, the FIFA World Cup , watched by billions around the world, kicks off with a game between the team of the host country – South Africa – and...
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Coming at IT from All Angles

Posted over 3 years ago

by Microsoft blog editor

Over the last several months, I have had the opportunity to talk to about 300 CIOs in a variety of forums all around the world. I consistently hear from my peers and colleagues that they have spent much of the last few years focused on reducing costs...
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Weekend Reading: Live@edu Cloud Clears Future for Kentucky

Posted over 3 years ago

by Microsoft blog editor

Last week the University of Arizona adopted the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite , our cloud-based communication and collaboration package. This week the Kentucky Department of Education has gone one better and deployed our Live@edu system...
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Live@edu Brings the Future to Kentucky

Posted over 3 years ago

by Microsoft blog editor

I’ve been managing technology in schools for more than 20 years. And there’s one thing I know: There are very few times when you can simultaneously streamline output and lower costs, while also dramatically increasing capacity and adding new...
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The role of IT in the era of cloud computing

Posted over 3 years ago

by Microsoft blog editor

Without question, cloud computing continues to be the hot topic of discussion in information technology circles. Vendors, customers and industry observers are all weighing in on the opportunities and challenges posed by the cloud. Many IT professionals...
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Weekend Reading: Taking the Cloud to Campus

Posted over 3 years ago

by Microsoft blog editor

Universities are under a lot of pressure these days. They need to cut costs, deliver great services to a demanding audience of faculty, students and staff, and provide the reliability and security of a major enterprise. So we were happy to learn this...
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Beyond Beta: Microsoft Tag Takes Off

Posted over 3 years ago

by Microsoft blog editor

Eighteen months ago we launched Microsoft Tag , our mobile barcode technology. Since then more than 1 billion Tags have been printed by people and businesses all over the world. In the month of April alone, more than 20 million magazines with Tags were...
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“If you want to change the world with technology…”

Posted over 3 years ago

by Microsoft blog editor

By now, most people have seen the org news we announced on Tuesday morning, and some of the resulting coverage and opinion. As I talked to people about the news today, there were a couple of questions that kept coming up: Isn’t Robbie a bit young...
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Microsoft’s NERD Center is Expanding in Cambridge, Mass.

Posted over 3 years ago

by Microsoft blog editor

Nearly three years ago, I moved to Boston from Redmond to pursue my work with Microsoft as a user-experience (UX) designer in a place closer to family. When I first got to One Memorial Drive, I was stuck in a little first-floor cubicle. I could get my...
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Connected Health Conference Shows the Future of Health Care

Posted over 3 years ago

by Microsoft blog editor

Last Thursday we wrapped up this year’s Connected Health Conference , held in downtown Bellevue, Wash. It’s where we get together with a few hundred customers, partners, thought leaders from the industry, policy makers -- and talk about the...
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Weekend Reading: Visit from a Queen

Posted over 3 years ago

by Microsoft blog editor

We had some important visitors this week – Timothy Geithner, the U.S. Treasury Secretary; Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon.com; and Warren Buffet, an investor and philanthropist you may have heard of…. They were all her for Microsoft’s...
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Accelerating Change – We Can’t Do It Alone

Posted over 3 years ago

by Microsoft blog editor

On Thursday we hosted our first citizenship “Accelerator Summit,” a day of open discussion on our corporate citizenship efforts. The conversation was based on how technology and partnerships can accelerate change on social and economic issues...
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Education Technology – Changing the Nature of Education, and Building a Bridge to Tomorrow

Posted over 3 years ago

by Microsoft blog editor

Editor's note: The following is a guest post from Kelly Walsh, author of EmergingEdTech.com . I write about Education Technology, and oversee a department that implements and supports it in a small private college in New York. Education technology...
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Partners Find Value with Microsoft’s Cloud Apps

Posted over 3 years ago

by Microsoft blog editor

Today, we are announcing a new alliance with Capgemini that will bring the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), our cloud service for communication and collaboration, to Capgemini’s worldwide clients as part of their new Infostructure...
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Your Inbox Re-Invented: A First Look at the New Windows Live Hotmail

Posted over 3 years ago

by Microsoft blog editor

It’s amazing to think about how much we all rely on email in our personal and professional lives. And email today is about much more than sending written notes to your family, friends and coworkers. These days messages contain photos, videos, web...
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Productivity Applications and the Cloud

Posted over 3 years ago

by Microsoft blog editor

What a week! Just days ago in New York, we launched Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 to business customers worldwide . The response to this epic release has been nothing short of amazing. With more than 8.6 million people already using the 2010 set of...
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Modeling the World

Posted over 3 years ago

by Microsoft blog editor

Technology is transforming our ability to measure, monitor and model how the world behaves. This has profound implications for scientific research and can transform the way we tackle global challenges such as health care and climate change. This transformation...
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Weekend Reading: Office 2010 Debuts – and Much More

Posted over 3 years ago

by Microsoft blog editor

Movie studios release star-studded films… Carmakers the newest model… For us, of course, the big news often is around the release of new software. So that made this past week important. On Wednesday we released Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint...
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Family Ties: Microsoft Dynamics and Microsoft’s Business Productivity Infrastructure

Posted over 3 years ago

by Microsoft blog editor

The old relationship between internal line of business applications and business productivity software such as Microsoft Office might once have been described as “second cousins once removed.” The two software applications often sat side by side on the...
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Today’s Launch of Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint 2010

Posted over 3 years ago

by Microsoft blog editor

Today’s a big day for us. We’re officially launching the 2010 series of Office and SharePoint products in New York City this morning. Over at the Office 2010 Engineering blog , I share some behind-the-scenes insights from a recent conversation I had with...
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Innovation and Analytics

Posted over 3 years ago

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Innovation and analytics often are seen as opposing concepts. Many argue that innovation –which is often glorified as a moment of genius – cannot be reduced to a set of processes. Or even worse, to a set of metrics. I will be talking about this concept...

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