Microsoft Digital stories
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How we’re transforming large meetings at Microsoft in the age of flexible work
It’s a new era, and even meeting rooms must reinvent themselves. “In 2024, meeting rooms are reinterviewing for their jobs,” says Matthew Marzynski, a principal product manager for Microsoft Digital, our IT organization here at Microsoft. And just like any…
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Empowering our employees with generative AI while keeping the company secure
Generative AI (GenAI) is rapidly changing the way businesses operate, and everyone wants to be in on the action. Whether it’s to automate tasks or enhance efficiency, the allure of what GenAI can do is strong. However, for companies considering…
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Corporate video at Microsoft gets a big upgrade thanks to the modern Microsoft Stream experience
[Editor’s note: This content was written to highlight a particular event or moment in time. Although that moment has passed, we’re republishing it here so you can see what our thinking and experience was like at the time.] There’s a…
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Microsoft’s fresh approach to accessibility powered by inclusive design
[Editor’s note: This content was written to highlight a particular event or moment in time. Although that moment has passed, we’re republishing it here so you can see what our thinking and experience was like at the time.] Adopting rigorous…
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Disability as a strength: Three practices to help you create inclusive experiences at your company
Our mission at Microsoft is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our Microsoft Digital Employee Experience team lives this mission every day by empowering employees across the organization with inclusive digital and physical…
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Shifting left to get accessibility right at Microsoft
At Microsoft, we’ve learned the best way to get accessibility right is to shift left. “We need to think about accessibility before we start any of our work, before we write any line of code, at every step of our…
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Work smarter in Microsoft Teams by leveraging the apps ecosystem
The use of business applications in Microsoft Teams has become a strategic advantage for many organizations, as they can accelerate the digital transformation of all business areas, generating a high demand for the Information Technology (IT) team to make these…
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Simplifying external staff management by extending SAP SuccessFactors on SAP Business Technology Platform
Our core system for managing our external workforce was showing its age in an increasingly demanding modern workplace environment—we needed to simplify our external staff management. Here at Microsoft, our large and diverse external, non-FTE workforce plays a vital role…
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Streamlining engineering at Microsoft with Azure DevOps
Microsoft runs on Microsoft technology. We are the proving ground for our products and when we say that software is enterprise-ready this means that we have already built it for and run it at scale in our own enterprise. We…
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Bonding in 3D: How Microsoft employees are finding connection in Microsoft Teams
Several years into the era of flexible work, most of us are used to appearing in a Brady Bunch-style gallery. We select an emoji to ask a question or applaud an achievement and still have to remember “unmute” when it’s…
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Delivering communications internally at Microsoft with Microsoft Viva Amplify
Keeping your people well informed is something every organization, manager, and executive needs to do, including here at Microsoft Digital, the company’s IT organization. We need to let our employees know about new product rollouts, important system updates, new policies,…
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Working in a phygital world: Why businesses need to rethink their workspace experiences now
“Phygital” (physical plus digital) is a marketing term that’s often used to describe the blending of digital experiences with physical ones. As employees’ and customers’ ways of interaction proliferate, companies aim to seamlessly integrate them. Nothing has been impacted more…