Microsoft projects target young and old
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Software giant hosts exhibits to educate doctors on answering parents' questions on Net safety as it partners with Miami to provide free computer training in senior centers.
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Children who were enrolled in a preschool project in 1962 tend to be more productive citizens in their 40s than children who were not enrolled.
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InfoWorld - TheÂ One Laptop Per Child Project (OLPC)Â and Microsoft are working together to develop a dual-boot system to put both Linux and Windows on laptops aimed at kids in developing countries, the head of OLPC said in an interview Tuesday.
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New product for Office is aimed at getting more people within each business to use Redmond's software.
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By David Betancourt, Washington Post Staff Writer  At 26, I'm still pretty close to that prime age demographic -- you know, the one that marketing and advertising teams see as the cutting-edge consumer, the one that every technology company wants to reach.
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InfoWorld - Forty students from around the world got to pitch their software projects to Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on Tuesday as part of a worldwide software development challenge.
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Microsoft and several partners launched on Monday two IT training programs in the U.K. in an effort to increase the employability of those who lack basic computer skills.
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Move over, slackers. Generation Y is hitting the workforce, tech gadgets in hand and eyes firmly on their careers. Now, if only they had some people skills & or patience ... or &
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Technological skills, like maneuvering a mouse, are becoming part of childâs developmental milestones.
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Microsoft Corp  unveiled a new  initiative on Monday that will give college and high school  students around the world free access to technology tools used  to develop and design software.
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By MATTHEW FORDAHL    SAN JOSE, Calif.  -- After years of battling Microsoft Corp...
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Microsoft is giving away development and design software to university and high school students around the world through a program aimed at fostering technology innovation worldwide.Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates&#160;is expected to unveil the DreamSpark program Tuesday at Stanford University on the first stop of a U.S. and Canadian college tour. The program is now available to more than 35 million college students in Belgium, China, Finland, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the U.K. and the U.S.Software available to students through DreamSpark includes Microsoft&#39;s development environment, Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition, and its Web and graphic design toolset, the Expression Studio. Microsoft also is making available XNA Game Studio 2.0, SQL Server Developer Edition, Windows Server Standard Edition and other software and resources through the program.In the next six months Microsoft expects to extend the program to college students in Australia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Japan, Lithuania, Latvia, Slovakia and other countries. And in the third quarter, the software will be available to high school students as well, Microsoft said.DreamSpark is part of a company-wide effort to work with local governments, communities, and academic institutions worldwide to give potential technology workers a head start in the competitive job market to foster technology innovation and improve citizens&#39; quality of life, especially in developing countries.Microsoft also is trying to compete worldwide with open-source technologies such as Linux that are freely available to anyone and thus popular with student computer enthusiasts who may not be able to afford to purchase Microsoft products.One major benefactor of DreamSpark is Aisec, an international exchange student program. Its 28,000 students will get software such as Microsoft&#39;s Office productivity suite, said Michelle Galant, vice president of communications.Aisec, which has 1,100 offices in 100 countries, will also use the company&#39;s Exchange e-mail server, Gallant said. &quot;It enables us to run offices and enables us to run our exchange program,&quot; she said.More information about DreamSpark can be found on Microsoft&#39;s MSDN developer site.
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InfoWorld - A startup working in Microsoft's backyard is taking aim at the software giant's entrenched project management software with a new hosted service.
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Microsoft is stuck in the past and is trying to train kids to stay there, too.
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Frankfurt, October 18: Microsoft launched a new software product aimed at small and mid-sized enterprises on Monday to strengthen its position in a fragmented market it sees as ripe for growth.
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Microsoft has unveiled a new Web site offering lessons to new programmers on building applications using the tools in Visual Studio 2005.
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Seattle, November 17: For people trying to get their aging parents on the web so they can read e-mail and get digital photos of the family, Microsoft Corp has a message: Don&#39;t give up.