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Although Microsoft employees spend their days creating and refining technologies that improve people’s lives, it took their efforts in the Kosovo refugee crisis last year to remind them of just how profound technology’s impact can be.

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Emmanuel Hutchinson, a student at Tucson High School, gave up football to attend classes at the Tucson-Pima Arts Council's Multimedia Arts Education Center, a component of the Council's Arts Education Program. He found the environment safe -- other kids didn't try to intimid...

Microsoft Corp. today announced that 48 middle- and high school teachers nationwide will receive more than $1.3 million in software licenses as part of the Microsoft® Curriculum Grant Program, an initiative designed to help educators create leading-edge information technolog...

When Linda Kohn set out last year to become the top fundraiser among Microsoft employees, her main cause was raising money for the Northwest AIDS Foundation. "This cause is very important to me, because I would venture to say we all have lost at least one dear family member ...

"It is a perfect model of Microsoft's vision of a connected learning community -- a community working together to build its own work force," said Diana Carew, Microsoft's manager of community and technical college programs. Last month, Carew traveled to the town of Mexico, M...

"I was getting kind of worried," recalled 18-year-old Jose Barraza, Jr., salutatorian of his senior class at Hilltop High School in Chula Vista, Calif. Barraza had decided to turn down the full scholarships offered to him by Stanford and Cal Tech and focus instead on pursuin...

Microsoft Corp., working closely with the Greater Houston Area Red Cross and the Houston Independent School District (HISD) in a joint project known as "A Class Act," recently helped provide school supplies for children in foreign countries ravaged by war or natural disaster...

Every year for the past few years, 12-year-old Bethany Potter and her 10-year-old sister, Rebecca, have attended Microsoft Corp.'s annual Take Our Daughters to Work Day event with their father, David Potter, a Microsoft software design engineer. Today is Bethany's fourth app...

For American Indians, the "digital divide" can feel more like the "digital Grand Canyon." In addition to being the poorest of America’s ethnic minorities, many American Indians live on reservations notorious for their scant natural resources and isolated locations. Many youn...

Last Saturday, April 8, 2000, thousands of Sun Microsystems' global employees picked up rakes, hammers, books and donated supplies launching Sun's sixth annual Worldwide Volunteer Week (April 8-15, 2000). Sun employees, their families and friends, business associates and cus...