[ad_1] If Microsoft can successfully negotiate a deal with ByteDance, the company says it will add “world-class security, privacy, and digital safety protections” to the TikTok experience. And to be absolutely clear, there’s a chance these discussions may fall apart. That’s true for any high-profile acquisition, but this deal is particularly strange since it seems […]
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Microsoft will double its Black senior leadership by 2025
[ad_1] The company also wants to help make its non-Black employees better allies. Starting in the company’s fiscal 2021 year, Microsoft will mandate mandatory training on allyship and privilege for all employees. Part of the course material will touch on understanding the experience of Black communities. Outside of its own walls, the company plans to […]
Microsoft employees ask the company to end contracts with Seattle police
[ad_1] “We are all in agreement that our neighborhood has been turned into [a] warzone escalated by SPD and that our coworkers and leaders need to know what is happening,” the letter reads. “We need awareness and empathy across every level of management asap so that the burden of educating our coworkers doesn’t fall on […]
Microsoft opens free registrations for Build 2020
[ad_1] “It’s not the Build we thought it would be, but it’s gonna be special,” said Hanselman. “We can’t wait to bring together our community of developers to learn, connect and code together.” Like so many other things, the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted the annual developer conference circuit, in some instances even leading to outright […]
Microsoft’s Build conference will be a ‘digital’ online-only event for 2020
[ad_1] Microsoft’s big event for developers in Seattle is traditionally where it shows off a lot of things that also impact us as consumers using Windows, Office or its other products, but this year it will be an exclusively virtual one. The company revealed in a statement to The Verge that “…we will deliver our […]