Blog category: Garage General
A new way to author and share Excel named formulas: advanced formula environment, a Microsoft Garage project
Advanced formula environment, a Microsoft Garage project, enables Excel users to write complex formulas efficiently and then share them in an Office Add-In for Excel. With the recent addition of the LAMBDA function to Excel, it is now possible to author your own custom functions using the same formula language that powers millions of spreadsheets today. Excel LAMBDA significantly expands....
Garage project Journal celebrates its anniversary with folders to keep you organized
Journal, released as a Microsoft Garage project one year ago, continues to delight today. It is designed—from the ground up—for personal journaling and notetaking with a digital pen. The Journal app is powered by AI to help you write, search, and annotate your ideas quickly and naturally. “We think of Journal and our other incubations as platforms to explore and....
Forest Guard: Microsoft Student Hackathon winners create rapid-response deforestation sensor
The 2021 Microsoft Student Hackathon – hosted by The Microsoft Garage and run concurrently with the Microsoft Global Hackathon this year – offered Microsoft summer intern 2021 alumni and their friends a chance to hack real-world challenges in a structured environment, complete with coaching and access to Microsoft technologies to help them realize their ideas. Students from 22 countries came....
Room to Dream: How the Microsoft Garage is hacking creative culture on a global scale
In celebration of the annual Microsoft Hackathon, discover how the Microsoft Garage is hacking creative culture on a global scale. Take a closer look at six of the twelve Garage locations across the world (Dublin, Atlanta, New York, Israel, India, and Nigeria) and how each is collaborating across borders to drive innovation for Microsoft and its customers. Learn about the....
Journal, a Garage project, adds tactile signal support for a more natural and intuitive writing experience
Ink feels more natural and gestures feel more intuitive with support for tactile signal capable pens and devices. Now, you can experience tactile signals on devices like the Surface Pro 8 and Surface Laptop Studio with our Surface Slim Pen 2, when you download the latest version of Journal from the Microsoft Store. Experience these tactile signals in two ways—ink-feel....
Garage project Journal makes your ink more powerful with improved lasso, multi-select, support for different languages, and more
Journal, a Microsoft Garage project, is an ink and touch-first note-taking experience that uses AI to help you stay in the flow of your writing. You can use scratch out to quickly erase something, tap ink to quickly select a word or sentence, and use search to filter to things you’ve written like an item you starred or doodle you....
Microsoft Garage partners with Air Force Officer to grow employee-led innovation
At Microsoft, employees are trying new things and embracing lessons from success – and failure. They’re seeking out diverse perspectives in a culture that practices a growth mindset. The annual company-wide Microsoft Global Hackathon, produced by The Garage, is a big part of that culture. The Garage was honored to work with Major Ryan “Merlin” Middleton of the U.S. Air....
Introducing the Microsoft Garage Gallery “Spirit of Being” exhibit with multidisciplinary artists
New York City has always been home to artists and creative minds who push the boundaries of art, technology, and storytelling. The newly built Microsoft Garage facility in Lower Manhattan is one of many exciting places where The Garage is establishing programs to fuel innovation both within and outside the company. Part of The Garage space in NYC hosts an....
Custom page styles and improved print and export features now available in Garage project Journal
Journal, a Microsoft Garage project, is live with a new update! The project team is excited to deliver one of their most popular feature requests: Page Styles. Journal is an inking incubation exploring how new paradigms and the power of AI can transform the way we ink, and it’s available for download for any pen-capable Windows 10 device. Existing users....
Print, custom ink colors, and more come to Garage project Journal
A short month ago, we released Journal, a Microsoft Garage project, and the Journal team is thrilled with the response so far. Building on user feedback and what the team has learned so far, they have already introduced new features, fine-tuned gestures, and started sketching new modes for the note-taking tool. Windows 10 users with a pen-capable device can try....
A new ink-first experience with Journal, a Microsoft Garage project
There’s something magical when inspiration hits: that moment when a great idea starts to form, where you finally solve a big problem, or you find moments in the day to process your thoughts. For many of us the way to express this inspiration is through writing. We reach for a piece of paper to start capturing our ideas. We sketch....
Hackathon project mirrors courage, accelerates progress in the Microsoft Garage Residency
The project team of epilepsy data tracking app “MirrorHR” finds success and support in a Residency with The Garage. For seven years, Microsoft’s Hackathon has sparked new opportunities and given employees the creative space to champion innovative solutions and ideas that can make a difference and solve critical problems. MirrorHR is here to accomplish just that, to achieve a vast....
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