March 2009 - Posts

The story behind MultiPoint
30 March 09 12:39 PM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   

It’s incredibly exciting for us to see increased momentum with MultiPoint in schools! MultiPoint was conceived during the summer of 2005 at Microsoft Research India , when we visited rural schools in India to understand how they use PCs. We discovered Read More...

Filed under: Education, Asia

GLF Americas: Students, DreamSpark & Entrepreneurialism
27 March 09 10:02 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   

Joe Wilson connected with Sina Chenari yesterday at Government Leaders Forum -- Americas. Joe is Microsoft's Senior Director of Academic Initiatives, and Sina is an undergraduate computer science major at The George Washington University who's interested Read More...

GLF Americas: Students use DreamSpark
27 March 09 09:29 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   

While at GLF Americas, we had a chance to talk with Pat Yongpradit, a computer science teacher at Springbrook High School in Silver Spring, Maryland. In this short video, Pat discusses how students in the Springbook Women in Technology club have used Read More...

GLF Americas: Pedro Julio Uribe
25 March 09 10:01 PM | Unlimited Potential team | (Comments Off)   

At the Government Leaders Forum-Americas today, we had the opportunity to quickly catch up with Pedro Julio Uribe, General Manager, Unlimited Potential Group, to get his opinion on current issues facing Latin America and how technology can be implemented Read More...

Every PC, new or old, will count
16 March 09 05:11 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   

Posting from Khayelitsha, the third largest township in South Africa - located outside of Cape Town, Khayelitsha is home to 1.5 million people, nearly half of which are unemployed. I’ve been here several times in the last year and am struck each time Read More...