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Anywhere Working Consortium launches online portal

Transforming businessMon, 16 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT

The Anywhere Working Consortium today unveiled an online portal that will help UK organisations adopt more flexible working practices. The portal will serve as a resource for employers and employees alike, offering training, guidance, case studies and product offers from the consortium, whose members include Business in the Community, Microsoft, Nokia, Nuffield, Regus and Vodafone UK. The initiative is supported by the UK Department for Transport, Transport for London and the UK Trades Union Congress. Click through to read the full press release.

The Co-operative Group: Life in the Fast Checkout Lane

Transforming businessMon, 16 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT

Using an intelligent system that ties point of sale to a SQL Server-based data warehouse, major U.K. retailer taps into a goldmine of transaction data.

At 10-Year Milestone, Trustworthy Computing More Important Than Ever

Driving what's nextThu, 12 Jan 2012 17:30:00 GMT

Ten years ago this week, during a time when security problems were threatening trust in software products, Bill Gates sent a companywide memo to all Microsoft employees announcing the creation of the Trustworthy Computing (TwC) initiative. In marking the ten year milestone of the original Trustworthy Computing memo today, Microsoft recognizes that Trustworthy Computing has never been more important. Click through to learn about the history of Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft and news at Microsoft News Center.

Microsoft announces revamps to its Partners in Learning Network

Fueling growth and healthy communitiesWed, 11 Jan 2012 14:00:00 GMT

At BETT today in London, Microsoft has announced updates to its Partners in Learning Network to improve collaboration and the spread of ideas for education across the world. Read a blog post by Anthony Salcito, Microsoft's Vice President for Education, here.

Guest Blog: The importance of assessing students' 21st century skills, not just mathematics, science and reading

Fueling growth and healthy communitiesTue, 10 Jan 2012 14:30:00 GMT

In a guest blog, Anthony Salcito, Vice President for Microsoft Education, discusses the next stage of the Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills (ATC21S) project, announced today at the Education World Forum in London. ATC21S is a collaborative research program created to address a specific problem: that traditional assessment methods do not properly evaluate the skills needed to prepare learners for working in the modern world. Read here the full blog post including the new announcement.

The Microsoft CES 2012 Blogger Haus

Driving what's nextTue, 10 Jan 2012 12:45:00 GMT

For this year's CES, Microsoft has invited 14 trendsetting and student bloggers from across Europe to stay in a dedicated Blogger Haus in Las Vegas and enjoy the CES experience in style. Upon arrival, the bloggers will be equipped with the latest Microsoft technology to review and help them cover the CES action on their own blogs. They will also embark on an action packed Microsoft adventure immersing them fully in the Microsoft consumer experience– with Windows at its core. Click through to find out more about the project and what else Microsoft will be doing at CES 2012.

Microsoft at Education World Forum and BETT 2012

Fueling growth and healthy communitiesMon, 09 Jan 2012 15:45:00 GMT

This week Microsoft will have a major presence at two key education events held in London, UK. Education World Forum, the largest global gathering of education ministers and the internationally recognised ministerial forum for debating future practice in education, will run from 9-11th January. As part of this, Microsoft, in partnership with the British Council, will host the Education Leaders Briefing, bringing education ministers, policy makers and experts together to explore the big issues around learning, education, students and technology in a two hour ‘talk show' format. Following this, BETT, the world's leading event for educational technology, will run from 11–14th January. Read here full details of all three events and learn more about Microsoft's commitment to education worldwide.

Microsoft Takes Legal Action Against U.K. Retailer Comet

Fueling growth and healthy communitiesWed, 04 Jan 2012 11:30:00 GMT

Microsoft Corp. today issued proceedings against Comet Group PLC for allegedly creating and selling more than 94,000 sets of counterfeit Windows Vista and Windows XP recovery CDs. The alleged counterfeits were sold to customers who had purchased Windows-loaded PCs and laptops.