Chris Schlechty remembers a high school friend struggling to use his computer the way most other kids did, typing away at a conventional keyboard to chat with other teens. Like Schlechty, the friend ...

Australia’s sixth largest bank, Bank of Queensland Group (BOQ) and Microsoft have today announced a five-year strategic partnership to accelerate the company’s cloud-first digital transformation. The ...

Read more about the IT Pro and Developer Preview of Office 2016 Customers today have access to a massive amount of data. The challenge they face is gaining meaningful insights from that data and ...

CAMBRIDGE, U.K. – A small Microsoft Research team had lofty goals when it set out four years ago to create an analog optical computer that would use light as a medium for solving complex problems.

The chips that datacenters use to run the latest AI breakthroughs generate much more heat than previous generations of silicon. Anybody whose phone or laptop has overheated knows that electronics ...

Imagine having an on-call research assistant that can analyze mountains of work and web data to give you insightful expertise in minutes, whether you’re preparing for a big meeting, brainstorming new ...

Earlier this summer, marine specialists reeled up a shipping-container-size datacenter coated in algae, barnacles and sea anemones from the seafloor off Scotland’s Orkney Islands. The retrieval ...

Microsoft researchers have published a paper in Nature that quantifies for the first time how much energy and water are consumed and greenhouse gas emissions are produced by four datacenter cooling ...

When it comes to a complex issue such as computer security, there are no simple answers. As the effects of hacking run the gamut from the annoyingly personal – like never-ending popup windows on your ...

Wi-Fi? Check. Power for your tablet or PC? Yep. Bird calls? All around. To get to Microsoft’s most unexpected new meeting space, embark on a leisurely outdoor stroll up a planked, accessible ...

Tucked away on Microsoft’s Redmond campus is a lab full of machines probing the basic building block of the digital age: Silicon. This multi-step process meticulously tests the silicon, in a method ...

A community plaza where employees can gather, learn, and play. Car-free zones and a cross-campus bridge just for pedestrians and bicyclists. Energy-optimized smart buildings; spaces to spark ...