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    Innovation

    Server blades immersed in a bubbling two-phase immersion cooling tank

    To cool datacenter servers, Microsoft turns to boiling liquid

    By John Roach

    Apr 6, 2021
    Technical Fellow Alex Kipman showcasing Microsoft Mesh, a new mixed-reality platform powered by Azure.

    “You can actually feel like you’re in the same place”: Microsoft Mesh powers shared experiences in mixed reality

    By Jennifer Langston

    Mar 2, 2021
    Photograph of orthopedic surgeon Dr. John Sledge in an operating room wearing a HoloLens 2 headset and using a hand gesture during a surgery.

    HoloLens project enables collaboration among surgeons worldwide

    By Deborah Bach

    Feb 9, 2021
    Microsoft datacenter hot aisle tall server racks zoomed in, showing fans, cords and cables

    Growing Azure’s capacity to help customers, Microsoft during the COVID-19 pandemic

    By Jennifer Langston

    Jun 16, 2020 
    Spencer Fowers walks in front of the Project Natick underwater datacenter in the background

    Microsoft’s undersea datacenter helps the hunt for a COVID-19 vaccine

    By John Roach

    Jun 16, 2020 
    David Carmona standing in his living room in front of cameras

    Building Build: a behind-the-scenes look at #MSBuild

    By Microsoft

    May 20, 2020 

    Innovation is empathy turned into action: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella

    By Petri

    Mar 2, 2020 
    Theo smiles with his left hand touching a HoloLens that sits on his head, while interacting with Microsoft researchers at a kitchen table

    Using AI, people who are blind are able to find familiar faces in a room

    By John Roach

    Jan 28, 2020 
    Alex Kipman with a HoloLens 2 device on his head

    The making of the HoloLens 2: How advanced AI built Microsoft’s vision for ubiquitous computing

    By John Roach

    Nov 7, 2019 
    In a Warner Brothers cold storage room, Brad Collar, holding film cannisters, and Vicky Colf, holding a piece of silica glass, both containing the 1978 movie 'Superman'

    Project Silica proof of concept stores Warner Bros. ‘Superman’ movie on quartz glass

    By Jennifer Langston

    Nov 4, 2019 
    Erik Vogel, global vice president for customer experience for HPE GreenLake at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, stands with a prototype of memory-driven computing.

    Microsoft’s new approach to hybrid: Azure services when and where customers need them

    By Chris Stetkiewicz

    Nov 4, 2019 
    Rohan Kumar, corporate vice president for Azure Data, stands in front of a screen with the words “Microsoft Ignite”

    How Microsoft re-envisioned the data warehouse with Azure Synapse Analytics

    By Chris Stetkiewicz

    Nov 4, 2019 
    Photo illustration showing brothers Ibrahima and Abdoulaye Barry, who invented the alphabet known as ADLaM.

    How a new alphabet is helping an ancient people write its own future

    By Deborah Bach and Sara Lerner

    Jul 29, 2019 
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