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Microsoft News, Wednesday, August 9,2023
Xbox Announces Aises Partnership For International Day Of The World'S Indigenous Peoples
We're still here. Indigenous people, that is. I'm one of them. I am from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and Cherokee Nation. I enjoy creating beadwork like my ancestors before me, or rather I am learning to.
more → Microsoft News, Wednesday, August 9,2023
Microsoft Solutions Boost Fortune 500 Frontline Productivity With Next-Generation AI
Frontline workers represent the face of organizations and make up the lion's share of the workforce. Gartner estimates that there are 2.7 billion frontline workers - more than twice the number of desk-based workers.
more → Microsoft News, Wednesday, July 26,2023
Microsoft, Anthropic, Google, And Openai Launch Frontier Model Forum
Microsoft, Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI are launching the Frontier Model Forum, an industry body focused on ensuring safe and responsible development of frontier AI models.
more → Microsoft News, Friday, July 21,2023
Our Commitments To Advance Safe, Secure, And Trustworthy AI
Microsoft is announcing its support for new voluntary commitments crafted by the Biden-Harris administration to help ensure that advanced AI systems are safe, secure, and trustworthy. By endorsing all of the voluntary commitments presented by President Biden and independently committing to several others that support these critical goals, Microsoft is expanding its safe and responsible AI practices, working alongside other industry leaders.
more → Microsoft News, Wednesday, July 19,2023
Announcing General Availability Of Azure Data Manager For Energy
Microsoft partners with the energy industry in the global transition to a more secure, equitable, and sustainable future. To support this transformative journey, we're pleased to announce the general availability of Azure Data Manager for Energy.
more → Microsoft News, Tuesday, July 18,2023
Microsoft Inspire 2023
Check out the best of the event and catch up on sessions you may have missed to uncover even more ways that Microsoft AI-including Copilot-can help you create differentiated solutions, drive customer success together, and fuel your business growth and profitability.
more → Microsoft News, Tuesday, July 18,2023
Carnival Corporation Sails To The Edge By Tracking Oceans Of Data
Imagine a company with 92 branch offices operating on all seven continents. Now picture that company coordinating a cascade of business functions every hour across that far-flung network - from training and paying 160,000 team members to keeping about 300,000 customers safe.
more → Microsoft News, Tuesday, July 11,2023
KPMG And Microsoft Enter Landmark Agreement To Put AI At The Forefront Of Professional Services
Multi-year cloud and AI alliance to supercharge the employee experience and accelerate innovation for clients across Audit, Tax and Advisory
more → Microsoft News, Thursday, July 6,2023
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is Ranked Number One in Market Share in the IDC Worldwide Corporate Endpoint Security Market Shares report
Microsoft security researchers tracked a 130.4 percent increase in organizations that have encountered ransomware over the last year. Endpoints are an important attack vector and ensuring that organizations have modern endpoint security as part of a broader extended detection and response strategy, is top of mind for chief information security officers (CISOs). In line with these trends, IDC reports that the endpoint security market grew by 29.2 percent in 2022, reaching an all-time high of USD13.1 billion.
more → Microsoft News, Wednesday, July 5,2023
AI For Business Leaders: Discover AI Advantages In This Microsoft AI Learning Series
AI is becoming a game-changer for businesses across industries and is ushering in a transformative era of innovation, efficiency, and unprecedented possibilities. With AI continuing to automate and optimize vast swaths of the economy, it's become table stakes for executives and other business decision-makers (BDMs) to understand the latest developments
more → Microsoft News, Friday, June 30,2023
What's New In Microsoft Teams
Welcome to the June 2023 edition of What's New in Teams! Following a month of great announcements from Microsoft Build 2023, we are not slowing down by bringing you 45 new features for the month of June.
more → Microsoft News, Thursday, June 29,2023
Moody's And Microsoft Develop Enhanced Risk, Data, Analytics, Research And Collaboration Solutions Powered By Generative Ai
Strategic partnership for next-gen solutions built on Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service, Microsoft Fabric, and Microsoft Teams and Moody's proprietary data to empower financial services, capital markets, and more
more → Microsoft News, Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Accelerating Scientific Discovery With Azure Quantum
Microsoft is announcing new advances to Azure Quantum aimed at accelerating scientific discovery.
more → Microsoft News, Tuesday, June 20, 2023
Space Education Day 2023: Inspiring The Next Generation Of Innovators
Space engages people of all ages by sparking curiosity of the unknown. With NASA's progress toward its first lunar missions in more than 50 years, a new generation of Americans can witness the awe-inspiring power and joy of a moon landing. It can also inspire people of all ages and backgrounds to pursue space-related science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers, from astronauts to engineers and physicists to technicians.
more → Microsoft News, Thursday, June 15,2023
Microsoft Announces New AI Solutions For Microsoft Cloud For Nonprofit: A Game-Changer For Fundraising And Volunteer Engagement
Microsoft is announcing a suite of new AI solutions and improvements to Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit that are designed to transform the nonprofit industry and how fundraisers engage with donors, manage campaigns and optimize operations.
more → Microsoft News, Thursday, June 8,2023
Summer Game Fest 2023: Xbox Games Revealed And Shown
The Summer Game Fest 2023 showcase just wrapped up and, as with every year, there was a bevy of Xbox games revealed and shown along the way. From Sonic Superstars to Space Marine 2, we got a look at numerous new titles coming to Xbox - so many, in fact, that we thought it might be useful to round up the highlights in one place.
more → Microsoft News, Thursday, June 8,2023
Announcing Microsoft's AI Customer Commitments
AI is creating unparalleled opportunities for businesses of every size and across every industry. We are seeing our customers embrace AI services to drive innovation, increase productivity and solve critical problems for humanity, such as the development of breakthrough medical cures and new ways to meet the challenges of climate change.
more → Microsoft News, Wednesday, June 7,2023
Unlock New Insights With Azure OpenAI Service For Government
Microsoft continues to develop and advance cloud services to meet the full spectrum of government needs while complying with United States regulatory standards for classification and security.
more → Microsoft News, Tuesday, June 6,2023
Microsoft Custom Translator Platform Upgrade: Delivering Higher Custom Translation Quality
As businesses increasingly look to expand their global reach, the demand for high-quality, accurate translations has never been higher. At Microsoft, we're committed to providing the most powerful and effective translation tools available, and we're excited to announce the latest upgrade to our Custom Translator platform.
more → Microsoft News, Monday, June 5,2023
Combat Financial Crime With AI And Advanced Technology From Microsoft
Financial services organizations have long recognized technology as a transformative force in their business models. Now they're at the cusp of taking advantage of new advances in AI and data science to seriously combat some of the most pernicious criminal activities around the world.
more → Microsoft News, Monday, June 5,2023
Announcing The Global Winners For Microsoft Imagine Cup Junior 2023: Students Developing The AI Skills Needed For The Future World Of Work
While the future holds great promise, one key to greater success in driving global economic development lies in empowering today's students with the skills they will need to be successful and thrive in this digital, ever-changing economy. Countries that invest quickly in developing the skilled workforce with digital and technical skills will do more than create an economic advantage; they will empower their populations to lead innovation and growth.
more → Microsoft News, Monday, June 5,2023
'The Last Frontier Of Disruption': With Its New Ai Chatbot, Ey Teams Seek To Take The Pain Out Of Payroll Questions
An employee in Hungary asked if having twins would impact his parental leave. A worker in Spain wondered whether the bonus of $20,000 euros she received would be taxed. Another employee asked what requirements he would have to abide by if he went to work in a United Arab Emirates country as a foreign national.
more → Microsoft News, Thursday, June 1,2023
Microsoft Celebrates Pride by Donating to LGBTQIA+ Nonprofits and inviting Everyone to Make Pride with open-source campaign
This year we're celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Global LGBTQIA+ Employees and Allies at Microsoft (GLEAM) employee resource group that is a driving force for LGBTQIA+ inclusion and Pride at Microsoft around the world.
more → Microsoft News, Wednesday, May 31,2023
Building A Quantum-Safe Future
As innovation has progressed through radio, the internet, Wi-Fi, smartphones, and the Internet of Things, we have consistently faced security concerns with each technological milestone. Every new and disruptive technology comes with both opportunities and challenges.
more → Microsoft News, Tuesday, May 30,2023
Reflections On AI And The Future Of Human Flourishing
Recent advances in artificial intelligence have sparked both wonder and anxiety as we contemplate its transformative potential.
more → Microsoft News, Friday, May 19,2023
Cyber Signals: Shifting Tactics Fuel Surge In Business Email Compromise
We released the fourth edition of Cyber Signals highlighting a surge in cybercriminal activity around business email compromise (BEC). Microsoft has observed a 38 percent increase in cybercrime as a service (CaaS) targeting business email between 2019 and 2022.
more → Microsoft News, Thursday, May 18,2023
Global Accessibility Awareness Day - Accessibility At The Heart Of Innovation
We celebrate the 12th annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD): A day to drive awareness, highlight the advancements in accessible technology, and the incredible work happening within the community to bridge the disability divide.
more → Microsoft News, Thursday, May 18,2023
Celebrate Empowering Students To Succeed On Global Accessibility Awareness Day
Accessibility is a key aspect of education, ensuring that every student has equal access to learning opportunities. As we join the world in celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2023, we wanted to showcase how schools and teachers can leverage Microsoft tools to promote accessibility in the classroom and empower all students to achieve more.
more → Microsoft News, Tuesday, May 16,2023
Meeting Governments Where They Are: Delivering Innovation While Maintaining Digital Sovereignty
As governments today look at technology innovation, there is a need to address the rapidly evolving demands of their citizens while protecting the most sensitive data and delivering on promises of trust and security.
more → Microsoft News, Tuesday, May 9,2023
Introducing The Microsoft 365 Copilot Early Access Program And The 2023 Work Trend Index
Microsoft is bringing Microsoft 365 Copilot to more customers and releasing new research that shows how AI will change the way we work
more → Microsoft News, Tuesday, May 9,2023
Cloud-Based Chip Design For National Security Achieves Key Milestone
Continued U.S. leadership in emerging technology requires a sustainable supply of advanced chips to power innovation from artificial intelligence to quantum computing.
more → Microsoft News, Thursday, May 4,2023
Announcing The Next Wave Of AI Innovation With Microsoft Bing And Edge
Just three months ago, we unveiled the new AI-powered Microsoft Bing and Edge to reinvent the future of search with your copilot for the web. We aimed to tackle a universal problem with traditional search - that nearly half of all web searches go unanswered, resulting in billions of people's searches falling short of the mark.
more → Microsoft News, Tuesday, April 25,2023
Microsoft Cloud Strength Drives Third Quarter Results
Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended March 31, 2023, as compared to the corresponding period of last fiscal year:
more → Microsoft News, Monday, April 24,2023
The Era Of AI: How The Microsoft Cloud Is Accelerating AI Transformation Across Industries
This past quarter has put a spotlight on advancements in generative AI, and the possibilities of its application to deliver pragmatic business outcomes.
more → Microsoft News, April 20th, 2023
Microsoft Translator Now Supports 129 Languages
Today, we are introducing a new language to the ever-growing list of Translator languages - welcome Lower Sorbian!
more → Microsoft News, April 20th, 2023
Doing Different: Making A Better World Throughout The Windows 11 PC Ecosystem
Each April, on Earth Day, the world takes a moment to reflect on our natural environment, and evaluate our impact on that environment.
more → Microsoft News, April 19th, 2023
The World Needs Cybersecurity Experts - Microsoft Expands Skilling Effort With A Focus On Women
Today, Microsoft is expanding our Cybersecurity Skills Initiative to Argentina, Chile, Indonesia, and Spain, and delivering grants to nonprofits to help skill people for the cybersecurity workforce.
more → Microsoft News, April 17th, 2023
Microsoft And Epic Expand Strategic Collaboration With Integration Of Azure Openai Service
Microsoft Corp. and Epic on Monday announced they are expanding their long-standing strategic collaboration to develop and integrate generative AI into healthcare by combining the scale and power of Azure OpenAI Service1 with Epic's industry-leading electronic health record (EHR) software.
more → Microsoft News, April 13th, 2023
The Future Of Manufacturing Is Now: Four Trends Shaping The Industry
At its core, manufacturing is about innovation, as it builds economic capacity, bolsters workforces, and generates opportunity and growth.
more → Microsoft News, April 13th, 2023
Microsoft And Johnson Matthey Join Forces To Speed Up Hydrogen Fuel Cell Innovation With Azure Quantum
Johnson Matthey and Microsoft Azure Quantum chemists have teamed up to drive new discoveries in sustainable energy.
more → Microsoft News, April 13th, 2023
Easily Access The New AI-Powered Bing Across Your Favorite Mobile Apps
Bing recently hit 100M daily users (and 100M chats)! Today, we're excited to share new AI-powered experiences that extend these capabilities to millions of additional people across devices and around the globe!
more → Microsoft News, April, 7th 2023
Microsoft Store's Spring Sale Now Underway With Big Savings On Xbox Games, Apps, Devices And More
Microsoft Store's Spring Sale starts today and offers savings on a wide variety of Xbox and PC games! Running now through April 20, you'll find great deals on entertainment, Surface devices and Microsoft accessories all at microsoft.com.
more → Microsoft News, April, 6th 2023
Windows 365 Offers Flexibility From The Office Or Home To The Frontline
From the home office to the boardroom to the frontline, how we work continues to change and evolve. There's more permanence in the flexibility people have come to expect in how they work.
more → Microsoft News, April, 6th 2023
Edge Features To Help You Stay Organized And Power Your Productivity
Life seems to be moving at a faster pace, with demands for our time growing and multitasking being the norm at home and at work. Here at Microsoft Edge, we understand the crucial role that a web browser plays in your online life, and we strive to build features that help you make the most of your time.
more → Microsoft News, April 3rd, 2023
The BBC's Journey To Net Zero: Technology's Key Role In Sustainability
It's all under the directive of Danielle Mulder, the BBC's Group Director of Sustainability. She was appointed to the role in 2021 with a remit to achieve net zero by 2030 across the global BBC organisation.
more → Microsoft News, March 28th, 2023
With Security Copilot, Microsoft Brings The Power Of AI To Cyberdefense
Trained across security and networking disciplines and armed with trillions of data signals, Security Copilot dramatically increases the reach, speed and effectiveness of any security team
more → Microsoft News, March 28th, 2023
Introducing Microsoft Security Copilot: Empowering Defenders At The Speed Of AI
Today the odds remain stacked against cybersecurity professionals. Too often, they fight an asymmetric battle against prolific, relentless and sophisticated attackers.
more → Microsoft News, March 27th, 2023
Internews, Microsoft, USAID To Develop Media Viability Accelerator
New public-private partnership will deliver data-driven digital platform to help independent news media become financially self-sufficient
more → Microsoft News, March 24th, 2023
Weather From Microsoft Start Named The Most Accurate Global Forecast Provider
Following the last few years of record-breaking natural disasters, it's clear that weather prediction accuracy isn't just for making daily decisions when going outdoors - it can save lives.
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