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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Tools for work Staying productive at home and returning to work safely
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Help for job seekers Our initiative aims to bring more digital skills to 25 million people
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Help for businesses Tools to help companies adapt and respond to new challenges
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Explore & learn Cooking, 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.
How we’re helping our communities
- 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
- A pulse on employees’ wellbeing, six months into the pandemic
- 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
- 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
- Disruptions and opportunities: lessons from the spring of 2020
- 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
- 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
- Recovering from the pandemic: what policymakers and experts are saying
- 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
- 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
- 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