Microsoft today announced a new program for its global student technology competition, the Imagine Cup , called ‘ Solve This’ to help connect intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and nonprofits with the students...

Microsoft Research (MSR) is focused on findings ways to use computing to accelerate research breakthroughs. Earlier this week, MSR announced the availability of a cloud-based version of the National Center for Biotechnology Information’s (NCBI) BLAST...

Forbes.com posted an editorial today from Microsoft’s chief environmental strategist, Rob Bernard, where he discusses the potential for cloud computing to help reduce carbon emissions for customers that move business applications to the cloud. Titled...

Microsoft IT (MSIT), our internal IT organization, recently issued a new technical whitepaper titled “ Manage, Monitor, and Report: Implementing a Power Management Strategy with System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3 which looks at how they...

Today we released the findings of a new study that looked at the energy and carbon emissions associated with cloud computing. Together with our partners Accenture and WSP Environment and Energy, we conducted a Lifecycle Assessment to provide a clearer...