As the gaming industry transforms from a device-centric to player-centric form of entertainment, Microsoft announced plans today to acquire ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda Softworks, one ...

Meeting the urgency of the climate crisis demands bold ambition and collective action. At Microsoft, we are committed to becoming carbon negative by 2030—a goal that calls for ingenuity and innovation ...

Destructive hurricanes. Huge ocean waves. Sandstorms and severe smog. Extreme weather events are becoming increasingly common, piling pressure on communities to prepare for a range of disasters with ...

Employees trying to answer questions as part of their jobs, researchers wading through medical records, developers analyzing client needs – everybody wants information at their fingertips. AI has made ...

Microsoft researchers have published a paper in Nature that quantifies for the first time how much energy and water are consumed and greenhouse gas emissions are produced by four datacenter cooling ...

TOKYO, Japan – On a small percentage of flights, despite everyone’s best intentions, something unplanned happens. A passenger gets sick or a flight has a long delay. After the cabin attendant attends ...

Celebrating Microsoft Research Asia – Tokyo, photo left to right: Lidong Zhou, Managing Director, Microsoft Research Asia; Ashley Llorens, Corporate Vice President Microsoft Research Accelerator; ...

Veterinarians are spending more time with pets and less time typing notes. Factory workers are “talking” to their machines to diagnose problems faster. Employees in all sorts of roles and industries ...

Tucked beside a northern Virginia suburb, an experiment is underway to see if one of the oldest building materials on the planet can help Microsoft meet its ambitious climate goals. Microsoft is ...

Adriemilly Rigo wasn’t feeling well. “To tell you the truth, I was very sedentary, I didn’t practice sports much, and I didn’t take care of myself very well,” she says. She had gained weight, felt ...

In the battle to conserve water, leaking pipes form an insidious enemy, accounting for average losses of 30 percent – but in some localities as much as 70 percent – of piped drinking water across the ...

Palantir Technologies Inc. (NYSE: PLTR) and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) announce today a significant advancement in their partnership to bring some of the most sophisticated and secure cloud, ...