Almost a year after its initial launch, Personal Shopping Assistant, a Microsoft Garage project, is adding features and expanding its smart shopping technology to new platforms with an Anniversary Update. Since June 2016, thousands of people around the world have used the assistant to shop smarter, leading the team to expand, iterate, and further invest in the project. The Anniversary….
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Many Excel users can relate to the problem of data wrangling. You start with an input data set that you wish to transform into a new format so that you can perform further analysis using the transformed data. Not surprisingly, these problems arise for common types of data such as date and time, addresses, phone numbers, URLs. For example, consider….
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You’re too slow! Come on Designers — keep up! With new books out on Design Sprints and Lean UX, the dozens of rapid prototyping tools now available, and thousands of Designers who can code up their own ideas, you’d think that the Design community was moving faster than it ever has. But, that’s just not true. “Design is doing some stellar work….
What began in 2009 as an underground offshoot of Office Labs has mushroomed into a global program inspiring Microsoft employees, interns, and the industry to reconsider how cultural reinvention and innovation can indeed happen.
Step 1: Turn your passion into a project A mantra resonates throughout The Garage: Doers, not talkers. In the last two years, The Garage has evolved from a 24-hour idea factory to a program dedicated to encouraging all employees to take their ideas and bring them to life. The Garage provides resources such as expert advisors, maker spaces, hackathon tools,….
When students with the Microsoft Garage began their internship in Cambridge, Massachusetts in June, they found a new workspace, a pair of managers and an intern who quickly became a guiding force to these newest members of the team – even though she had only started four months earlier. Maddy Leger, 20, had already completed a 12-week winter internship as….
