Citizenship

February 20, 2014

Microsoft “applauds and supports” these efforts, and is ready to partner with others to ensure the Patent and Trademark Office is “equipped to perform its delicate and increasingly technologically complex role,” Horacio Gutierrez, Microsoft Legal & Corporate Affairs deputy general counsel and corporate vice president, writes on the Microsoft on the Issues blog.

February 18, 2014

A comprehensive set of new Microsoft Dynamics CRM capabilities focused on helping organizations match their customers to the right products and services, engaging with them in the right way at the right time and nurturing those relationships, was unveiled Tuesday by Microsoft..

January 30, 2014

In Delhi, India – one of the world’s biggest cities with more than 22 million people, where violent crime is on the rise – residents can submit threat or crime information from their phones using Microsoft’s pilot Know Your Police Station mobile app.

December 29, 2013

See the video spotlighting a group of women this year who spoke out, broke barriers, overcame tragedy and changed the world, showing what the human spirit can achieve when set free.

December 10, 2013

By 2042, the U.S. population is projected to be “majority minority,” and no one race or ethnicity will any longer be the majority in America. While America increasingly reflects the extraordinarily diverse people and cultures from around the world, the legal profession does not.

December 8, 2013

Microsoft joins with AOL, Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter and Yahoo to propose principles for reforming government surveillance laws and practices. In an open letter, the companies also urged the president and the United States Congress to take the lead on reform.

December 5, 2013

Thursday’s overwhelming bipartisan House vote to pass the Innovation Act (H.R. 3309) marks a significant milestone toward enactment of common-sense reforms to curb abusive patent litigation. Abusive patent lawsuits create a heavy burden on the U.S. economy — slowing innovation, undermining competitiveness and stunting economic growth.

December 5, 2013

On Thursday, Microsoft joined a nationwide day of action to call for an update to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA). We are asking Congress to codify what courts and service providers across the U.S. are already doing: require all law enforcement to obtain a warrant before demanding access to the contents of customer communications or documents customers store in the cloud. Microsoft has long supported reform of ECPA, is an active member of the Digital Due Process Coalition, and has testified before Congress on the importance of striking a better balance between privacy and the needs of law enforcement.