Responding to COVID-19 together
- Community supportWhat we’re doing to help the community right now
- Tools for workStaying productive at home and returning to work safely
- Help for job seekersOur initiative aims to bring more digital skills to 25 million people
- Help for businessesTools to help companies adapt and respond to new challenges
- Explore & learnCooking, camp, cultural activities – do more and have fun at home
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.
Read a note from CEO Satya Nadella
How we’re helping our communities
Our plan to help millions get in-demand job skillsMobilizing AI for Health and funding for virus researchUndersea datacenter helps the hunt for a vaccineOur healthcare bot helps global fight against virus
- 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
- Emergency plan has Microsoft Store employees helping people in new ways
- Thinking creatively about how to support employees, customers and the community
- Microsoft campus dining resources help feed families in need
- 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
Doing business remotely and returning to work safely
Helping people return to the workplace safely6 ways to keep your business up and runningMicrosoft Teams is now available for everyoneMaintaining security while working remotely
- Setting up your desktop and other tips for healthy remote computing
- New ways to make virtual interactions more natural, engaging and human
- 11 security tips to help you stay safe in the COVID-19 era
- 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
Resources for educators and families
How to empower students for the new world of workTeachers find powerful ways to connect with studentsTools to help you connect, learn and play at homeFamily-led learning activities for kids ages 3-12
- 20 updates for Microsoft Teams for Education, including 7×7 video and breakout rooms
- Schools after COVID-19: from a teaching culture to a learning culture
- Developing students’ social and emotional skills during remote learning
- UNICEF and Microsoft launch global learning platform to help address COVID-19 education crisis
- Tips for your at-home students with disabilities
- Tips for helping teachers and students make the switch to online learning
Tips and technical support for doing more online
How cloud services are scaling for increased need12 ways security teams can support remote workOur commitment for cloud services continuityWork remotely, stay secure — guidance for CISOs
- 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
Research and academia
- Interactive visualizations help understand our progress against COVID-19
- Extracting COVID-19 insights from Bing search data
- Adaptive Biotechnologies and Microsoft launch groundbreaking ImmuneCODE database to share populationwide immune response to the COVID-19 virus
- 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
- 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
- Quiet collective: The unseen experts behind Microsoft’s coronavirus response
- Microsoft takes legal action against COVID-19-related cybercrime
- New app to help companies bring employees back to work in a safer environment
- New solution helps healthcare providers rapidly scale patient screening and assessments for COVID-19
- 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
- Microsoft offers Healthcare Bot service to support CDC and other frontline response efforts
- 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
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