A natural disaster has a significant impact on people’s lives. Aid such as medicine, food and water are essential and scarce during times of need. However, the need for aid changes rapidly: refugees, victims and missing persons increasingly need technological help to communicate and find family members. Furthermore, relief organizations … Read more »
A new version of Minecraft aimed at helping schoolchildren learn has been released after feedback from tens of thousands of teachers and students. Minecraft: Education Edition has been launched in 11 languages around the world, and landed in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, … Read more »
By Sylvie Laffarge, Director, Philanthropies Europe, Microsoft Significant progress has been made when it comes to injecting computer science education into more curricula across Europe. But we can’t slow down. Europe Code Week reminds us that the power to drive change resides within us all. This year we are reinforcing … Read more »
This Europe Code Week, we focus on short-term and long-term ways to prepare current and future generations for our modern, digital workforce; and ultimately nurture a passion for STEM education among young Europeans. Check out what we have planned around the region! … Read more »
Imagine a world where you could predict when your customers will have their first thought about retirement planning and be ready to help them create that plan in just minutes. Imagine you could do the same for a young family applying for their mortgage or a fledgling company deciding where … Read more »
By Tim Rains, Director, Security at Microsoft I’ve had the opportunity to talk with many organizations in Europe over the years. No matter what type of organization I spoke with, big or small, retail or manufacturing or healthcare, they all expressed an interest in protecting their data, infrastructure and people … Read more »
Recent years have seen the world of digital entertainment open up to a much wider audience than ever before. Where once computer games were considered the preserve of bedroom dwelling teenage boys, today the gamer demographic is a lot more diverse, with mobile gaming, multiplayer, and even professional gaming as … Read more »
To be able to compete with other economies, all school children in the Netherlands should learn to code. In Amsterdam, former vice president of the European Commission Neelie Kroes launched CodePact today, an initiative set to teach 400,000 Dutch children programming skills. By signing the manifest, businesses and the government … Read more »
Interactive installations can serve a variety of purposes, they can even transport us into some of the tiniest (yet complex) structural forms: cells. Intricate processes such as aging cells can be hard to grasp and visualize, yet that’s exactly what the studio CleverFranke in the Netherlands set out to do. … Read more »
By Monika Noppe, IT Manager at Primagaz Benelux One of the top challenges of running a call center is handling the busy times when call volumes are higher than normal. For Primagaz, a propane provider to more than 30,000 businesses and consumers in the Benelux, the volume of calls skyrockets … Read more »