Erin from PTC recently posted a guest entry on Microsoft’s Vertical Industries Blog about how companies are using social technologies to enhance their product development teams’ performance. As our lovely, romantic Valentine's Day holiday approaches,...

  Aspentech announced the availability of AspenONE 7.2  this week.  Aspentech is one of our largest partners in the oil, gas, chemicals, and process industries, and aspenONE is their flagship product.  In addition to availability on...

There is a new whitepaper published by PTC about using Sharepoint for product data management. Capabilities of Windchill ProductPoint: Easy to deploy, web-based solution Enables CAD data sharing, vaulting & file management Consolidates product data...

Read about how Pentair realizes lower costs and improved performance by deploying Dassault Enovia on the SQL Server Platform. http://bit.ly/cFThPg Technorati Tags: Pentair , Microsoft , SQL Server , Dassault , product lifecycle management , PLM

Microsoft’s Imagine Cup is the world’s premier student technology competition bringing together teams from all around the world.  Student teams compete to find solutions to the most important challenges facing the world today.  This year’s competition...

New case study on how Intel increased productivity, security, manageability, and energy efficiency with Windows 7:  http://bit.ly/aXucTs Technorati Tags: Microsoft , Windows 7 , Intel

Microsoft and Ford team up to implement the Microsoft Hohm energy management application for Ford's electric vehicles to help owners more efficiently recharge electric cars. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2010/mar10/03-31FordHohm.mspx Technorati...

This year’s US Imagine Cup finalists have been selected! Out of the more than  14,000 students that signed up, 20 teams will be heading to the US Finals in Washington, DC on April 23-26. Here they will compete for the chance to represent the nation...

This morning, Microsoft and New York State announced the launch of Elevate America in New York, which will provide 71,000 free computer training vouchers to displaced workers. John Bunn, Microsoft’s General Manager for State and Local Government joined...

Hot off the presses, delivered to University of Washington students earlier today.  Steve Ballmer outlines Microsoft’s cloud computing vision, focusing on 5 key points: The cloud creates opportunities and responsibilities The cloud learns and helps...

This is a great new case study on how NEC Display Solutions reinvented itself from simply providing display hardware to offering an online network advertising solution, increasing both its profit margins and its value proposition to customers.  Posted...

You can now follow the latest Microsoft business case studies on Twitter at http://twitter.com/mscasestudies   Technorati Tags: microsoft , twitter , case studies

Today, live from the 2010 Global High Tech Summit in Santa Clara, High Tech industry director Drew Gude was featured on the Microsoft News Center .  Drew detailed how social networking, globalization, and consumerization of IT are among the top 7...

All flights out of Newark airport have been canceled for Wednesday, so I may be stuck shoveling out from the blizzard.  I was hoping I could get out early before the storm really hit.

Wow it was announced today that Chris Liddell will be the new CFO for General Motors – a big challenge at one of our automotive industry team’s biggest customers.  Best wishes to Chris in his new role! http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704304504574610010455604176...

Congrats to Boeing on the first flight of the 787 Dreamliner !   I remember a couple of years ago when the Microsoft industry team led an effort to support the public launch of the 787 at Boeing Field.  It’s been a long journey but as a former...

I got to walk past the display on 5th Avenue today, and it was packed. Technorati Tags: Microsoft , Windows 7 , Saks fifth avenue

Today, Dec. 7, Microsoft was awarded second place in the top-ranked large businesses category in Crain’s New York Business’ annual “Best Places to Work” issue. As part of the recognition, reporter Kira Bindrim interviewed Microsoft’s New York Metro General...

Join Microsoft and our partner OSISoft for a HART Energy Webinar on December 8, 2009 at 11:00AM Central, to hear a brief presentation from Dr. Paul Stone, a BP technology director with considerable experience in deriving business benefits from technology...

RedPrairie is one of our premier partners in supply chain execution, focusing on warehouse management and transportation planning.  We have a webcast coming up on December 8, 2009 at 11:30 Eastern featuring Tom Kozenski , VP Product Strategy for...

This year, the Saks Fifth Avenue holiday windows will be powered by Windows 7 to bring life to the children’s book Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Flake with 3-D animations and interactive window displays. In addition, there are two PC lounge areas on the 8...

OSISoft is one of our premier partners in the process and energy industries, and are extending their reach into new markets such as energy management for large data centers, including Microsoft’s own. Join us for an upcoming webcast with this great partner...

PTC is one of our premier partners in the Product Lifecycle Management space. We have some great customer case studies together, and Microsoft itself uses PTC solutions in some areas of product design. PTC recently participated in the Sharepoint Conference...

I've looked forward to this session at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square.  The focus is on power generation, distribution, and process industries, with speakers from Con Edison, Rock Tenn, and Mohawk.  Our own Brian Willson will be speaking...

Today, New York 1 , NYC’s 24 hour cable news channel, is running a piece on Microsoft Tag featuring an interview with mobility specialist Kevin Kerr. Advertisers Only A Snapshot Away With ‘Tag’ Technology April 14, 2009 New York 1 Story...