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A new kind of focus group fuels innovation and iteration

Lainie Huston — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 12:40:33 +0000

How much time do you spend searching for documents? The answer is probably somewhere between more than expected and far too much. Finding files in your immediate work group can sometimes be tricky, but finding shared files by other teams becomes more complicated when you don’t know who the author is, what the title is, or where to find the....

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Garage Externs from MIT collaborate with The Met to spark global connections to art using AI

Meixia Huang — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 22:30:22 +0000

To help celebrate the second anniversary of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Open Access Program, The Met teamed up with Microsoft engineers and MIT students and faculty to imagine new ways in which their encyclopedic collection could be explored by global audiences. Chris Hoder speaking at December 2018 hackathon with The Met, MIT, and Microsoft The collaboration started with a....

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Snip Insights brings AI to Snipping tool with intelligent insights

Garage Team — Wed, 09 May 2018 14:45:43 +0000

What if everyday work flows were re-imagined through the power of AI to inspire and delight? What if users could achieve more with a tool that is both easily accessible and familiar? Millions of Windows users perform the same task every single day. Screenshots are taken all the time, but as technologies progress in leaps and bounds, screen capturing tools....

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This is what happens when interesting ideas, passion for technology, and experimental engineers converge

Garage Team — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 16:00:57 +0000

Each year, we host dozens of customer and partners in the Microsoft Garage. As we walk visitors through our community hub, makerspace, and most recently, our new Mixed Reality room, we often discuss everything from fostering innovation to designing spaces where people want to come together to collaborate. Across tech, banking, education, healthcare, and everything in between, one topic that....

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The napkin disrupted: meet Ink to Code, a Microsoft Garage project

Lainie Huston — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 14:00:26 +0000

Urban legend has it that some of the greatest ideas in history started with a napkin. The Gettysburg Address, the poem that gave way to the U.S. National Anthem, and the premise of the Harry Potter series—each were reportedly born into the world through the medium of sketches on scrap paper—and when app creators put pen to paper for their....

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