Entries tagged 'innovation'
Winners named for Microsoft Next global video competition
Whether utilizing Azure to ease the devastation caused by floods or collaborating across international borders to make music with Windows Live, people are
doing amazing things with Microsoft technology.
Launched in February 2011, Microsoft Next is a competition for our global employees to submit 3-minute videos showing how Microsoft people and technology are helping individuals and communities around the world.
Today, we have the honor of announcing the Top 30 winners of Microsoft Next submissions. See the amazing videos and an introduction from Jean-Philippe Courtois, President of Microsoft International, here.Jeremy on innovation at Microsoft
Jeremy talks about the incredible people he gets to work with here at Microsoft.Bing says thank you for a great first year
One year ago this week, we launched Bing. It’s been a whirlwind 12 months, with the team shipping tons of new cool features aimed at making it easy and fast to make key decisions and just get stuff done.We wanted to take a short break to say thanks. Thanks to all our customers who have used the service, sent feedback, become partners, told us where we can do better, read our blog, retweeted our tweets, and just generally supported us in this 1st year of our journey.
It’s an incredibly humbling thing to have had the opportunity to participate in so many interesting and important conversations with you, either at big industry events like SMX, Web 2, TED, SES, etc., or here at the blog, in Facebook and Twitter.
Microsoft innovation back on top with Natal, Photosynth and more
Microsoft has ranked #1 in new technology patents for the third year in a row. Tech pundits, bloggers and Twitterers are abuzz with stories about how Microsoft is again leading the industry in innovation.Do you already know everything about Project Natal and the Cloud? Is Blaise Aguera y Arcas' jaw-dropping TED talk on augmented-reality Bing Maps and Photosynth last month's news?
Then check out some of the online chatter surrounding Window Phone 7 series handsets and Internet Explorer 9.