The Broadcasting Board of Governors granted Microsoft Office 365 the authority to operate under the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) on May 3, 2012. This is significant because one of the reasons for slow adoption of cloud solutions...

You may think what does an Xbox module have to do with manufacturing? The answer is simple, it is the intuitiveness and rich experience it provides that made many software providers to the manufacturing industry rush to use the Kinect SDK for Windows...

This is another post in our series about the Chemical Reference Architecture (ChemRA). We will examine how the next release of Windows, code-named Windows 8 , fits in the overall architecture. The best way to do this is compare how Windows 8 supports...

In my previous post , I hinted to the five main principles of the Microsoft Chemical Reference Architecture (ChemRA). In this post, I will dive a little deeper into one of these principles, user experience (UX). As I mentioned in my previous post, chemical...

Several reference architecture initiatives in the manufacturing area started at Microsoft more than two years ago. The first of these initiatives was the Smart Energy Reference Architecture (SERA), followed by the Microsoft Upstream Reference Architecture...

Many trends in the economy in general, and in technology, in particular, face resistance due to initial risks and unknowns associated with them. Cloud computing is not immune to such resistance, especially in the manufacturing space including process...

I consider myself to be a lucky chap. I was reflecting on this as I started writing this blog post in Sao Paolo airport on my way back from a business trip to Brasil, where I worked for a week with a team comprising my team (Microsoft Global Industry...

Written by Ellyn Foltz. We usually think of a company’s sustainability efforts as being aimed at meeting government regulations (for example REACH) or at saving money. Evidence also suggests that “being green” will also be enormously...

You may have seen Microsoft's Kinect accessory for the Xbox in the news lately. It has just launched in the US, with other parts of the world about to follow. For the uninitiated, Kinect is a new way to interact and play games on an Xbox without using...

As I reflect on another Industry Solutions University, having returned from Barcelona, it is interesting to note the progress that we, Microsoft, are making in our efforts to make ourselves more relevant to our customers needs by understanding their business...

In time-honoured fashion in the computing industry, I start this blog with a "Hello world" message. Corny, cheesy or clichéd it could be, but it just seems so "right". Now, in a more serious vein, what is this blog all about you might be asking...