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Microsoft announces new marketing leadership for Asia Pacific

New leaders for Marketing and Marketing Communications with focus on capturing mobile and cloud opportunities in fast-growing Asian markets.

Vote now for Asia’s Change-makers! Voting closes on April 22!

Microsoft YouthSpark Challenge for Change is a global contest that encourages young people who are passionate about social causes to submit their ideas for how they can spark social good in their communities, college campuses or throughout the world, using the new Windows and Office. Five grand prize winners will receive a volunteer travel experience in the Amazon, $2,500 cash to kick-start their projects and a Microsoft technology bundle including Windows Phone 8, Xbox One and Surface 2 (or equivalent device).

Kathmandu developers use code to solve the city’s urban challenges

In a jointly organized app challenge by Microsoft and CITYNET, 103 developers got together in Kathmandu, Nepal to build web and mobile applications to improve urban living.

Office 365 Personal now available in Asia Pacific – unlocks editing and document creation on iPad

Microsoft announces availability of Office 365 Personal in Asia Pacific, a new consumer subscription offering catered for the individual, enabling the robust capabilities and unmistakable look and feel of Office across multiple devices

Farewell Windows XP

We know it’s hard to say goodbye, but all good things must come to an end. Microsoft Asia marks the end of support for Windows XP and Office 2003 today, and if you are still on the ageing platform – we are here to help.

Majority of consumers in Asia Pacific survey would rather lose their device than the content stored in it.

A Microsoft Asia survey gives some interesting insights on how consumers in Asia use cloud storage services today: 67% of consumers would rather lose their device than the content stored in it and 87% shared that it’s important for them to access their files, photos and videos from multiple devices.

Leading Japanese financial group Resona migrates 30,000 XP PCs to Windows 8 and Office 2013

Resona Group, a leading financial group in Japan that runs Resona Bank, Saitama Resona Bank and The Kinki Osaka Bank among other companies, has saved costs and enhanced security with the migration of 30,000 PCs to Windows 8.

Microsoft Azure now generally available in China

Microsoft Asia announced that Microsoft Azure (formerly known as Windows Azure) is the first public cloud platform available for commercial adoption in China, and will be operated by 21Vianet

Old is not always gold

With Windows XP End of Support on 8 April 2014, we take a walk down memory lane to check in on what was hot back in 2001 when Windows XP was first launched. See what a difference 12 years have made to our lives!

Enter the responsive organizations

To reap the full benefit of social technologies, organizations must transform their structures, processes, and cultures: they will need to become more open and nonhierarchical and to create a culture of trust. Ultimately, the power of social technologies hinges on the full and enthusiastic participation of employees who are not afraid to share their thoughts – and trust that their contributions will be respected. Creating these conditions will be far more challenging than implementing the technologies themselves.

We Speak Code. Do you?

Globally more than 10 million students globally have already taken the ‘Hour of Code’ challenge and with 3 billion people speaking more than 2,000 different languages across the Asia Pacific region it is hoped many more students will sign up to adopt ‘code’ as their official second language.

Microsoft partners with Indonesia Business’s Women Association (IWAPI) to empower women in Indonesia

As part of Microsoft’s commitment to empower women in Indonesia, Microsoft Indonesia today officially start its partnership with Indonesia Business’s Women Association (IWAPI).