Responding to COVID-19 together
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Community support What we're doing to help the community right now
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Remote working How technology can help people stay productive and connected
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Education & family Innovations and resources for online learning and more
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Technical support Helping people use technology to solve new challenges
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Research & academia Open data sets, tools and other research news and resources
As the world responds to the outbreak of COVID-19, our thoughts are with the people affected and the medical professionals working around the clock to help those most in need. At Microsoft, we’re working to do our part by ensuring the safety of our employees, striving to protect the health and well-being of the communities in which we operate, and providing technology, tips and resources to our customers to help them do their best work while remote.
How we’re helping our communities
- New app to help companies bring employees back to work in a safer environment
- How Microsoft is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in Washington state
- Bing delivers new COVID-19 experiences including partnership with GoFundMe to help affected businesses
- New solution helps healthcare providers rapidly scale patient screening and assessments for COVID-19
- Thinking creatively about how to support employees, customers and the community
- Microsoft joins forces in Puget Sound COVID-19 response fund
- More tech and cloud support for nonprofits on the frontline of COVID-19
- Microsoft continues to pay hourly workers their regular pay during time of reduced service needs
Help for working and doing business remotely
- Joining an online meeting: 9 reasons it’s better to click the link than use the dial-in phone numbers
- New Yammer app in Teams: Connect people across the entire organization through communities
- How research can enable more effective remote work
- 5 tips for working from home with children
- How Microsoft Teams safeguards virtual conversations and protects users’ privacy
- What the disability community can teach everyone about working remotely
- How the COVID-19 crisis is reshaping the way people work
Resources for educators and families
- UNICEF and Microsoft launch global learning platform to help address COVID-19 education crisis
- Tips for your at-home students with disabilities
- How educators in more than 175 countries are using Microsoft Teams to support remote learning
- Microsoft Teams meetings for the classroom: what to use now, and what is coming soon
- Tips for helping teachers and students make the switch to online learning
- Host your virtual class with Microsoft Teams meetings integrated into your learning management system
- Free education content from Minecraft and more
Tips and technical support for doing more online
- Empowering your remote workforce with security awareness
- New tools to help IT empower employees securely in a remote work world
- 7 principles for preserving privacy while addressing COVID-19
- IT essentials for enabling remote work with Microsoft Teams
- Take these steps to enable your firstline workers today
- Enable security and management for your remote workforce
- Protecting your data and maintaining compliance in a remote work environment
- How public agencies can use Power BI to keep communities informed on COVID-19
Research and academia
- Adaptive Biotechnologies and Microsoft launch virtual ImmuneRACE study to inform novel COVID-19 diagnostics to address unmet needs in testing
- Closing the data divide: the need for open data
- COVID-19 survivors may qualify to donate plasma to accelerate the development of H-Ig therapy
- Microsoft collaborates to accelerate progress against pandemic via COVID-19 Open Research Dataset
- COVID-19 Open Research Dataset on Azure optimized for machine readability, broad availability
- Microsoft co-launches C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute, targets AI techniques to mitigate pandemic
- Microsoft academic resources and their application to COVID-19 research
- Open source code created by Microsoft researchers for use by academic community
More news and information
- Researchers, companies and COVID-19 survivors launch national campaign to drive blood plasma donation
- Empowering Asia’s health care sector in the battle against COVID-19
- Microsoft President Brad Smith: COVID-19 has only intensified the broadband gap, which can’t be ignored
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust uses Microsoft HoloLens to protect doctors while providing patient care amid coronavirus pandemic
- Musicians replace cancelled gigs with immersive and interactive livestreams
- Soundscape app has new features to help people who are blind or have low vision navigate new challenges
- Microsoft offers Healthcare Bot service to support CDC and other frontline response efforts
- Satya Nadella and Toni Townes-Whitley discuss agility, leadership and continuity for state and local government
- Bing COVID-19 tracker shows the latest for your area and around the world
- Microsoft to join White House-led consortium to fight COVID-19