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In this issue... |  | Don't Let April 1 Be April "Phools" Day: Federal Trade Commission, National Consumers League and Microsoft Warn Internet Users of Phishing Scams In sharp contrast to the harmless pranks that will be played on April Fools' Day, deceptive phishing schemes are no laughing matter. To strike a blow against criminals who prey on Internet users, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), National Consumers League and Microsoft Corp. today urged consumers to beware of phishing schemes aimed at stealing their identities. | ||||||||||||
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| Meet Microsoft Recruiters at the following U.S. career fairs and conferences: Check our website for future events at http://www.microsoft.com/careers/events/ |
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Viewpoints from Workers Worldwide Show Technology and Productivity Increasingly Intertwined Q and A: A Microsoft Office System group product manager and an independent time-management expert discuss the results of a personal productivity assessment that drew responses from more than 38,000 workers across 200 countries.
Learn more...Tech•Ed 2005 At Tech•Ed 2005, you can gain the insights and practical solutions you need to help you create or manage technology. You’ll be able to explore and evaluate current and soon-to-be-released solutions and discuss challenges and opportunities with thousands of peers.
Learn more...Find Training This search tool will help you find the most up-to-date information about training on Microsoft tools and technologies. It includes instructor-led, self-paced, and online training options.
Learn more...Improving Efficiency with Six Sigma Whether you have only read about the benefits of Six Sigma, or your organization has a Six Sigma initiative underway, you know that this specialized methodology has a big impact on business today. The Six Sigma approach is powerful because it provides statistical improvement measures for a company's top challenges: productivity, profitability, and customer satisfaction.
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Meet S. Somasegar, Corporate Vice President, Developer Division S. “Soma” Somasegar is corporate vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft Corporation. The Developer Division is primarily responsible for all the developer-related languages, tools and platforms within Microsoft, including Visual Studio, Web Platform and Tools, .NET Framework, Common Language Runtime (CLR) and other .NET Developer Platform technologies. In addition, he oversees the India Development Center (IDC) in Hyderabad, India.
Learn more...Meet Mich Mathews, Senior Vice President, Corporate Marketing Group As the Senior Vice President for Microsoft’s Corporate Marketing Group, Mich Mathews oversees the professional excellence and development of the company’s global marketing function. She is responsible for driving integrated marketing communications through the company’s branding, advertising, public relations, research, events, packaging, relationship marketing and internal communications functions.
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Microsoft to Acquire Groove Networks, Combining Talents to Create Anytime, Anywhere Collaboration Products and Services Microsoft's plans to acquire Groove Networks, a leading provider of collaboration software for ad-hoc workgroups, will allow the company to better meet the needs of large and small organizations for borderless project teams, as well as bring Groove founder Ray Ozzie and other top executives to Microsoft.
Learn More ...Real-Time Collaboration Web Conference The recent release of Microsoft Office Live Meeting advances Microsoft’s integrated communications vision and makes it easier for users to initiate, engage and share with participants, and reach global audiences. Watch the international webcast and learn about advances in integrated real-time communications and Microsoft's strategy.
Learn More ...Microsoft: Getting from "R" to "D" Microsoft’s Advanced Technology Center (ATC) opened in November 2003 with 20 employees and a couple of projects. By late last year, after receiving more than 30,000 résumés from around China and sparking keen demand among Microsoft’s business divisions, it had around 100 employees, with some 17 major projects and scores of minor ones on its books; this year, the ATC is set to double in size.
Learn More ..."Indigo" Community Technology Preview Helps Developers Connect The world we live in is more connected now than ever before. Internet connections have skyrocketed to more than 500 million, there are millions of commercial Web sites, and B2B electronic commerce has surged from less than $100 million in annual sales to over $1.3 billion, according to a July 2004 study by Pyramid Research. This unprecedented connectivity, combined with the ongoing need to integrate software platforms, has driven the adoption of Web services to a tipping point.
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Web Watchers: Teaching Kids to Stay Safe Online Last month Microsoft, AMD and other leading technology companies launched Web Watchers, an Internet security and safety program that provides teachers in the U.S. with age- and curriculum-valid lessons to help students better understand the opportunities and risks of the Internet.
Learn More ...New Visitor Center Showcases Customers’ Potential Through Lens of Microsoft Past, Present and Future Interactive displays at an expanded campus museum let visitors to Microsoft’s Redmond headquarters sample the lastest products and technologies.
Learn More ...Microsoft Board of Directors Adds New Member - Dina Dublon Will Further Deepen Board's Global Financial Expertise Microsoft Corp. announced that its board of directors has increased the size of the board from nine to 10 members and elected Dina Dublon, 51, retired executive vice president and chief financial officer of JPMorgan Chase, to the board. Dublon was also appointed to the board's audit committee.
Learn More ...MSN Search Will Sponsor Upcoming American Mensa Events Including Mensa Colloquium 2005 and Mind Games The new MSN® Search, the first-ever search engine built from the ground up by MSN to help consumers more quickly find precise answers on the Web, will team up with the U.S. Mensa affiliate of the worldwide high IQ society to support several of the organization's upcoming U.S. events as a corporate sponsor. These events include Mensa Colloquium 2005 and Mind Games. MSN will also feature questions from CultureQuest® on the new MSN.com homepage. With the addition of the MSN Search bar to Mensa's Web page (http://www.us.mensa.org), American Mensa members and other site visitors can get direct access to Web searches and unique MSN features such as Instant Answers from Microsoft® Encarta®.
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Q and A: Microsoft Researchers Use Machine Learning Techniques to Help Advance HIV Vaccine Research Microsoft researchers David Heckerman and Nebojsa Jojic have collaborated with leading doctors and scientists to apply software algorithms traditionally used in computer science to develop a new approach to creating HIV vaccine models, which will be unveiled today at the 12th annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Boston.
Learn More ...Peace and Progress This year, decisions before Congress on three key trade issues may determine whether the United States continues to make progress in opening markets around the world – and whether we continue to nurture rising democracies at our doorstep.
Learn More ...Microsoft's Scholarship Program Challenges High-School Students to Make a Difference On March 14, 2005, Microsoft Corp. launched its second annual You Can Make a Difference scholarship program, which challenges secondary school students around the world to design technology-based projects to benefit charitable organizations. Previously available only to students from the United States and Canada, the program has been expanded this year to include high-school and secondary-school students around the world.
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