Responding to COVID-19 together

As the world responds to the outbreak of COVID-19, our thoughts are with the people affected and the medical professionals working around the clock to help those most in need. At Microsoft, we’re working to do our part by ensuring the safety of our employees, striving to protect the health and well-being of the communities in which we operate, and providing technology, tips and resources to our customers to help them do their best work while remote.

Read a note from CEO Satya Nadella

• We’ve mobilized AI for Health and funding for virus research
• How international health care organizations are using bots to help fight COVID-19
• Bing delivers new COVID-19 experiences including partnership with GoFundMe to help affected businesses
• Emergency plan has Microsoft Store employees helping people in new ways
• Thinking creatively about how to support employees, customers and the community
• More tech and cloud support for nonprofits on the frontline of COVID-19
• Microsoft continues to pay hourly workers their regular pay during time of reduced service needs

• A pulse on employees’ wellbeing, six months into the pandemic
• New tools boost wellbeing and soothe the stresses of working from home
• Take steps toward a more comfortable and healthy workspace
• New ways to make virtual interactions more natural, engaging and human
• 11 security tips to help you stay safe while working or learning remotely
• How Microsoft Teams safeguards virtual conversations and protects users’ privacy
• What the disability community can teach everyone about working remotely

• Disruptions and opportunities: lessons from the spring of 2020
• Latest updates in Microsoft Teams for education
• Schools after COVID-19: from a teaching culture to a learning culture
• Developing students’ social and emotional skills during remote learning
• UNICEF and Microsoft launch global learning platform to help address COVID-19 education crisis
• Tips for your at-home students with disabilities

• Empowering your remote workforce with security awareness
• New tools to help IT empower employees securely in a remote work world
• 7 principles for preserving privacy while addressing COVID-19
• IT essentials for enabling remote work with Microsoft Teams
• Take these steps to enable your firstline workers today
• Enable security and management for your remote workforce
• Protecting your data and maintaining compliance in a remote work environment

• COVID-19 cloud testing platform has potential to help beyond pandemic
• Interactive visualizations help understand our progress against COVID-19
• Extracting COVID-19 insights from Bing search data
• Adaptive Biotechnologies and Microsoft launch groundbreaking ImmuneCODE database to share populationwide immune response to the COVID-19 virus
• Closing the data divide: the need for open data
• COVID-19 survivors may qualify to donate plasma to accelerate the development of H-Ig therapy
• Microsoft collaborates to accelerate progress against pandemic via COVID-19 Open Research Dataset
• Microsoft co-launches C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute, targets AI techniques to mitigate pandemic
• Microsoft academic resources and their application to COVID-19 research

• Year of the Nurse: First responders build resilience with technology and data
• Microsoft in tech partnerships to assure successful COVID-19 vaccine delivery
• How Duke University and AI for Health raced to create a COVID-19 solution for patients
• How tech can support secure, safe and equitable vaccine distribution
• Recovering from the pandemic: what policymakers and experts are saying
• Microsoft takes legal action against COVID-19-related cybercrime
• New app to help companies bring employees back to work in a safer environment
• Bing COVID-19 tracker shows the latest for your area and around the world