The Microsoft Garage Wall of Fame
RushReady™
During the busiest moments of a quick-service restaurant’s day—those unpredictable lunch spikes, dinner surges, and weekend swings—one decision can make or break the entire operation. Pull a person off the grill to make a salad…
Inclusive Design for Cognition
A single red dot. For most, it was a simple indicator that a field wasn’t filled out right. But for one person participating in a usability study for a new software interface, it was enough…
CX Observe Product Feedback
Lifelong hackers are evolving how Microsoft innovates its customer experience (CX). CX Observe Product Feedback Copilot is an AI-driven tool designed to transform vast oceans of customer feedback into actionable insights that enhance strategic decision-making…
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Predictive and Intelligent Spares Management (PRISM)
PRISM won Best Paper at the IEEE Cloud Summit for a good reason. Microsoft Azure, a trusted cloud platform for building, deploying, and managing innovative solutions, runs at staggering scale: with more than 400 highly…
Generative AI for Permitting
Permitting is the single biggest bottleneck to deploying clean energy fast enough to avoid runaway climate change. In some cases, it takes over a decade and hundreds of millions of dollars to get a single…
AI-powered Reconstruction of Destroyed Buildings
In the aftermath of destruction, when cities are reduced to rubble and communities displaced, a team of hackers asked a bold question: Could AI help rebuild what was lost? That question became the foundation for…
Robotics for Wildfire Protection and Mitigation
The summer of 2022 in the United States was marked by relentless wildfires, which scorched millions of acres and devastated communities. According to the National Interagency Fire Center, 66,255 fires burned a staggering 7,534,403 acres.…
American Equity and Justice Group
After experiencing incarceration firsthand, Anthony Powers found his mission: advocating for justice reform. With support from Microsoft’s Global Hackathon, Powers founded the American Equity and Justice Group (AEJG) and developed a groundbreaking data dashboard highlighting…
GitHub Copilot Voice
One of the most inspiring innovations to emerge from the Microsoft Hackathon is now shaping the future of software development: GitHub Copilot Voice – an AI-powered, voice-controlled coding tool that is redefining what’s possible for…
KC7
KC7 is a gamified cybersecurity training platform created by a team of ambitious problem solvers including Simeon Kakpovi, Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst, and Greg Schloemer, Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst. KC7 was designed with a bold…
Secure and Sustainable Disposal of Hard Disks
Every Microsoft Global Hackathon project starts with this simple question. Data centers are no stranger to Microsoft’s Ranganathan Srikanth. As a Principal Data Scientist, they are a necessity in his day-to-day world. These facilities, housing…
Language Bank
In our interconnected digital age, one winning Microsoft Hackathon team, Language Bank, emerged as a leader in a vital mission: the preservation of the world’s languages. This team, winners of the 2022 Hack for Society…
Repowering Coal
Learn how this award-winning Hackathon project created technology to accelerate the replacement of the US Coal Power Plant fleet with Modular Nuclear Reactors in order to completely decarbonize the energy by allowing a firm energy…
Cameo for PowerPoint and Microsoft Teams
Put your live camera feed into your PowerPoint deck with Cameo. Use with Recording Studio to make more inviting recorded presentations. Apply all the same transitions and effects you can to an image or shape.…
Microsoft Adaptive Accessories
The Microsoft Adaptive Accessories family is a highly adaptable ecosystem that lets you 3D print and customize your own mouse, keyboard inputs, and shortcuts. The adaptable mouse is incredibly flexible, allowing differently abled users to…
MirrorHR – Epilepsy Research Kit
Parents of children with epilepsy struggle with accessing data and often feel helpless in predicting seizures or ensuring their child receives care as soon as possible should one occur. To attack this problem head-on, Roberto…
Supply Chain Blockchain Initiative
Key Features: Enable E2E visibility and traceability of supply chain by providing Verifiable Data, Decentralized Trust, and Connected Processes. Blockchain solution that brings all supply chain participants together into an industry-based network Powered by Microsoft…
Cloud9 Video Review Tool
Key Features: Pre-trained machine learning models identify key elements and moments throughout the match User interface for coaches and players to easily review each recorded game with key moments highlighted Timeline of events in the…
Truths & Insights
Key Features: Card game for small groups to share lived experiences around specific topics Tool to introduce discussion in a team through gamification Tool for ideation and brainstorming sessions Spark conversations that drive empathy and…
Mixed Reality Video Calling for Microsoft Teams Together mode
Together mode in Microsoft Teams is a new meeting experience in Teams that uses AI segmentation technology to digitally place participants in a shared background, making it feel like you’re sitting in the same room…
Calc.ts in Excel for the web
When Excel first came to the web, it did so by evaluating all formulas in the cloud, and sending each result to the browser. Although customers get the full power of desktop Excel, they sometimes…
Group Tabs and Share
Group Tabs and Share is a browser add-on that enables you to select and share data, links and other info at the click of a button, helping you save time and effort. This extension for…
Azure Quickstart Center
Azure Quickstart Center is designed to help customers deploy to the cloud with confidence and ease. With guides to set up and start a project, and curated online training for self-paced learning, customers and organizations…
Azure Resource Graph
Azure Resource Graph powers the Azure portal’s search bar, the browse ‘All resources’ experience, and Azure Policy’s Change history. It helps customers manage large-scale environments, designed to extend Azure Resource Management by providing efficient and…
Watch For
Watch For is an AI system for analyzing live video stream content and surfacing the most interesting parts of a livestream in real-time. Key Features: Computer vision algorithms run on livestreams to identify content. Text,…
3D Models in Office
3D models in Office allows users to easily insert 3D models into any PowerPoint, Word, or Excel file. Along the top ribbon under the Insert tab is the 3D Models option – choose from an…
Xbox Adaptive Controller
Designed primarily to meet the needs of gamers with limited mobility, the Xbox Adaptive Controller is a unified hub for devices that help make gaming more accessible. Connect external devices such as switches, buttons, mounts,…
Presentation Translator
Presentation Translator broke down language barriers by allowing users to offer live, subtitled presentation straight from PowerPoint. As you spoke, the add-in powered by the Microsoft Translator live feature, allowed you to display subtitles directly…
New Data Types in Excel
With added AI capabilities, Excel can now recognize rich data types beyond numbers and text strings. For example, Excel recognizes that “France” is a country and automatically associates it with additional attributes such as population…
FindTime
FindTime is an Outlook add-in that easily creates a meeting poll to let people inside and outside your organization select times they’re available so you can choose a meeting time that works for everyone. FindTime…
Mobile Sharing and Companion Experiences for Microsoft Teams Meetings
Our devices should work together as flexibly as we do. Video meetings traditionally limit each person to one device at a time, but many meeting tasks would be easier with two. In Microsoft Teams you…
Microsoft Kaizala
Microsoft Kaizala is a mobile messaging (chat) app for large group communications and work management for modern workplace which enables organizations to communicate efficiently and securely with their Firstline Workforce, the value-chain outside the organization,…
Microsoft Launcher
With Microsoft Launcher (formerly known as Arrow Launcher), you can personalize your Android device to match your style with wallpapers, theme colors, icon packs and more. With a Microsoft account or work/school account, you can…
Seeing AI
Designed for the blind and low vision community, this research project harnesses the power of AI to describe people, text, currency, color, and objects. Seeing AI is a Microsoft research project that brings together the…
Video Indexer
Video indexer builds upon media AI technologies to make it easier to extract insights from videos. Power new forms of content discovery such as searching for spoken words, faces, characters, and emotions. Enrich your apps…
Sports Performance Platform
Sports Performance Platform is a cloud-based sports-analytics platform that aggregates and visualizes team and player data to provide predictive outcome modeling to track and improve athlete and team performance. This is a highly customizable solution,…
FarmBeats
Several studies have demonstrated the need to significantly increase the world’s food production by 2050. However, there is limited amount of additional arable land, and water levels have also been receding. Although technology could help…
Microsoft Learning Tools
Microsoft Learning Tools are free tools that implement proven techniques to improve reading and writing for people regardless of their age or ability. The Microsoft Learning Tools set is natively built into the Office 365…
Personal Shopping Assistant
Consumers are overwhelmed by choice in shopping today, choice of products, sellers, and choice in methods to shop for them. Personal Shopping Assistant is a global-first product, ready for multi-currency and multi-country use. The Personal…
Microsoft Health Bot Service
The Microsoft Health Bot Service is a SaaS offering that empowers healthcare organizations to build and deploy compliant, AI-powered health agents, allowing them to offer their users intelligent, personalized, conversational access to health information. The Health…
Eye Control for Windows 10
Eye Control makes Windows 10 more accessible by empowering people with disabilities to operate an onscreen mouse, keyboard, and text-to-speech experience using only their eyes. The experience requires a compatible eye tracker, like the Tobii…
Mouse Without Borders
Would you want to have an incredible mouse that can seamlessly move from one machine to another? Would you want to get rid of the KVM and be more productive working with multiple machines? Mouse…
Microsoft Journal
Microsoft Journal was built, from the ground up, to be a delightful personal journaling experience on Windows using pen and touch. It delivers new AI, intuitive gestures, and connected experiences for Microsoft 365 (subscription required,…
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