“People never wanted the kettle, they wanted hot water,” says Mat Hunter, Chief Design Officer at the Design Council. Disruptive design is not about incremental improvements. It’s about that moment of realisation, the lightning bolt...

Every now and then a story comes along which warms your heart (and lets face it, it's cold out there at the moment) - and the 4Afrika initiative by Microsoft is one of them. It's something we simply had to share with our Enterprise audience. Besides,...

For many years tech companies have been somewhat synonymous with rather drab, unimaginative offices that seem to hark back to some 1970s/80s heyday. This is no longer the case of course - Microsoft, Apple and Google all lead the way in futuristic building...

Cloud is big. And by the looks of things, it's going to grow to become the main focus for enterprise IT in the coming years - whether through public or private cloud. But where does this leave our faithful old datacentre? Does it still have a future in...

Marketers are using cloud computing to deploy a range of tools and services to run modern marketing campaigns. Microsoft’s Matt Ballantine discusses how these marketing Change Agents are driving innovation in this Guardian piece: The emergence...

It was just last week when the brand new consumer version of Office 365 launched in a blaze of glory from a classic London double-decker bus. Check out all the launch action on the #catchthe365 hashtag on Twitter. Already there has been some fantastic...

On 1st July 2012 Microsoft instituted a companywide commitment to be carbon neutral. This applies to Microsoft's business operations in over 100 countries including the UK. To achieve this goal, we have created an accountability model which aims to improve...