Month: February 2014

February 27, 2014
Microsoft employees launch new college scholarship for students with disabilities

The Microsoft DisAbility Scholarship is a grassroots effort begun by the company’s internal Cross Disability Employee Resource Group. Each year, a panel of Microsoft volunteers will select high school seniors with visual, hearing, cognitive, mobility or speech disabilities to receive individual $5,000 scholarships for study at four-year or two-year universities, colleges or technical colleges.

February 27, 2014
More than 200 indie developers now creating games using ID@Xbox

ID@Xbox was created to make it easy for independent game developers to bring their ideas to Xbox One, and the response to ID@Xbox continues to be amazing, with more than 200 developers so far using the developer kits, writes Chris Charla, director of ID@Xbox.

February 27, 2014
‘Zoo Tycoon’ video diary shows game’s collaboration with real-life zookeepers

A new developer diary about the making of the “Zoo Tycoon” game includes interviews with animal care and zoo management from experts at Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo. The Association of Zoos & Aquariums collaborated with Microsoft Studios and Frontier Developments to create the game, with the aim of making it not only fun, but also teaching players about the responsibilities of running a zoo.

February 27, 2014
Study: Consumers want to share information online – but they also want to be in control of it

As the Microsoft Advertising Blog reports, the soon-to-be-released “Consumer Decision Journey: Financial Services” study shows “control was the single biggest factor driving consumers to share information: 68 percent of U.S. consumers are more likely to share if they feel in control. Secondarily, they also want the power to stop sharing or delete information at any time.”

February 27, 2014
Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) encryption now in Office 365

Office is expanding encryption across all its services. Earlier this month, Office 365 Message Encryption was introduced as a new service that allows you to send encrypted mail to anyone. And now, Office has announced S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) capability to Office 365 and Exchange Server 2013 Service Pack 1.

February 27, 2014
Los Angeles Unified School District chooses Office 365 for faculty and staff

The Los Angeles Unified School District, the second-largest school district in the U.S., has selected Office 365 as its faculty and staff email solution. The district chose Office 365 for its reliability, flexibility and security features, as well as the opportunity to reduce the amount of time the district’s IT team spends on maintaining its infrastructure.