Microsoft donates $1 million to Puget Sound’s COVID-19 Response Fund
As the world grapples with COVID-19, local officials and businesses here in the Puget Sound are taking necessary and unprecedented steps to protect public health, ease anxiety and prevent the spread of...
View ArticleFinally, progress on regulating facial recognition
Amid the current need to continually focus on the COVID-19 crisis, it is understandably hard to address other important issues. But, this morning, Washington Governor Jay Inslee has signed landmark...
View ArticleA healthy society requires a healthy planet
In January we launched Microsoft’s carbon initiative, setting new goals for our company to become carbon negative by the end of this decade. While COVID-19 has upended daily life for almost all of us...
View ArticleCOVID-19 has only intensified the broadband gap
We are living in a new world, a world racing online as social distancing forces many of us to work, communicate and connect in new ways. In the United States alone, state and local directives have...
View ArticleA Supreme Court ruling upholds the rights of the nation’s Dreamers
Today’s sunny morning in Seattle brightened even further with the good news from the United States Supreme Court that restores legal protection for nearly 700,000 Dreamers, including more than 60...
View ArticleMicrosoft launches initiative to help 25 million people worldwide acquire the...
Around the world, 2020 has emerged as one of the most challenging years in many of our lifetimes. In six months, the world has endured multiple challenges, including a pandemic that has spurred a...
View ArticleMicrosoft commits to achieve ‘zero waste’ goals by 2030
Every year, more than 11 billion tons of waste are produced worldwide according to the United Nations Environment Programme. A byproduct of our daily lives and every sector of the world’s economies,...
View ArticleMicrosoft will replenish more water than it consumes by 2030
Water is essential to life. We depend on it for our survival. The basic need has shaped how human societies have advanced over time. Explorers from pre-Columbian times and the age of antiquity to NASA...
View ArticleBuilding new bridges: Our thoughts on the U.S. election
In 2016, as the United States emerged from a close and contentious national election, we published a blog on the need to find new ways for the country to move forward together. As we reflected that...
View ArticleMicrosoft commits more than $110M in additional support for nonprofits,...
Click here to load media There’s no doubt that most of us across the Puget Sound region are anxious to put the difficulties of 2020 behind us. As we approach the end of December, we look forward to...
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A moment of reckoning: the need for a strong and global cybersecurity response
The final weeks of a challenging year have proven even more difficult with the recent exposure of the world’s latest serious nation-state cyberattack. This latest cyber-assault is effectively an attack...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Endorsement of Australia’s Proposal on Technology and the News
Editor’s Note: Last week, Microsoft endorsed an Australian proposal that would require tech gatekeepers like Facebook and Google to share revenue with local independent news organizations. Microsoft’s...
View ArticleA digital strategy to defend the nation
Editor’s note: On Feb. 23, Microsoft President Brad Smith testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on emerging technologies and their impact on national security. Later, he also testified...
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Technology and the Free Press: The Need for Healthy Journalism in a Healthy...
Editor’s Note: On Mar. 12, Microsoft President Brad Smith testified before the House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law. Read Brad Smith’s written...
View ArticleWhy we are concerned about Georgia’s new election law
Just last month, Microsoft shared its decision to invest substantially in Atlanta. As I announced together with Georgia’s Governor and Atlanta’s Mayor, our company is making significant investments...
View ArticleBuilding a more inclusive skills-based economy: The next steps for our global...
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View ArticleMicrosoft statement on Derek Chauvin verdict
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View ArticleDoubling down on accessibility: Microsoft’s next steps to expand...
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View ArticleAnswering Europe’s call: storing and processing EU data in the EU
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View ArticleAnswering the call: Microsoft’s support for VP Harris’ initiative to promote...
Microsoft’s roots in Central America are not only deep but broad. We opened our first office in Guatemala in 1995 and soon followed in El Salvador and Honduras. A decade later, we became acquainted...
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