Microsoft Digital stories
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How we’re recapping our meetings with AI and Microsoft Teams Premium at Microsoft
Traditionally, missing a meeting—or even just a part of one—could mean being left behind while the rest of the team pressed forward. Referring to prior meetings was tedious, requiring employees to sift through hours of recorded dialogue to find specific…
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Transforming employee engagement at Microsoft with Microsoft Viva Engage
This story reflects updated guidance from Microsoft Digital—it was first published in 2023. Keeping people connected in a hybrid work world is no easy task. But with the right technology, you can help employees in newly reimagined work environments feel…
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Empowering employees after the call: Enabling and securing Microsoft Teams meeting data retention at Microsoft
This story reflects updated guidance from Microsoft Digital—it was first published in 2023. Microsoft Teams meetings help our globally distributed and digitally connected employees create meaningful hybrid work experiences. When those meetings are recorded and transcribed or their data becomes…
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Helping Microsoft employees understand their value with the Total Rewards Portal
Our total rewards communications are an essential aspect of empowering employees to understand the value of Microsoft compensation and (for employees in the United States) their benefits, while also reminding them of the investment that the company is making in…
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Hardware-backed Windows 11 empowers Microsoft with secure-by-default baseline
This story was first published in 2023. We periodically update our stories, but we can’t verify that they represent the full picture of our current situation at Microsoft. We leave them on the site so you can see what our…
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How Microsoft kept its underwater datacenter connected while retrieving it from the ocean
Editor’s note: This story was first published in 2020. We periodically update our stories, but we can’t verify that they represent the full picture of our current situation at Microsoft. We leave them on the site so you can see…
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Embracing emerging technology at Microsoft with new AI certifications
This story reflects updated guidance from Microsoft Digital—it was first published in 2023. As the company’s IT organization, we at Microsoft Digital realized that advanced AI was going to create opportunities for our employees to increase their reach and impact.…
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Deploying Kanban at Microsoft leads to engineering excellence
At Microsoft we’ve taken a page from the auto industry and have adopted a process called Kanban. Kanban (pronounced “con-bon”) is a Japanese word meaning “signboard” or “billboard.” It was first developed by a Toyota engineer decades ago to improve…
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Deploying Microsoft 365 Copilot with the help of—you guessed it—Copilot
This story reflects updated guidance from Microsoft Digital—it was first published in May 2024. Now that we’ve deployed Microsoft 365 Copilot internally here at Microsoft, it’s helping our employees save time and focus on the things that matter most. But…
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Transforming Microsoft’s enterprise IT infrastructure with AI
AI is changing everything at Microsoft, including our approach to core IT. We in Microsoft Digital, the company’s IT organization, are using the advent of generative AI to reexamine and transform our entire IT infrastructure. “We’ve crossed an important threshold…
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Doing more with less: Optimizing shadow IT through Microsoft Azure best practices
This story was first published in 2023. We periodically update our stories, but we can’t verify that they represent the full picture of our current situation at Microsoft. We leave them on the site so you can see what our…
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Prioritizing accessibility at Microsoft with feedback from people with disabilities
Prioritizing accessibility at Microsoft is helping the company create products and services that are inclusive and accessible for everyone. Being successful at this important work hinges on getting feedback from people with disabilities ranging from mobility and cognitive disabilities to…