Blog category: Garage General
What leading experts are saying about fake news, Spectre, and smartphone exploits
“Investing in cybersecurity today will protect our freedom of speech, the existence of free markets and most important the freedom of secure online social interaction.” Guy Shalev, Microsoft Garage – Israel In the second year for BlueHat IL, a special edition of Microsoft’s leading cybersecurity conference, The Garage – Israel team rolled up its sleeves to hack with top professionals....
This is what happens when interesting ideas, passion for technology, and experimental engineers converge
Each year, we host dozens of customer and partners in the Microsoft Garage. As we walk visitors through our community hub, makerspace, and most recently, our new Mixed Reality room, we often discuss everything from fostering innovation to designing spaces where people want to come together to collaborate. Across tech, banking, education, healthcare, and everything in between, one topic that....
PowerPoint team shows how hackathons and teamwork are the best testing grounds for giving life to ideas
Hacking culture comes naturally to Alex Gueniot. As the senior software engineer for PowerPoint driving technical implementation of new features, he just can’t give up on good ideas. “I compulsively need to create and to collaborate with people. That’s why I’ve been involved in almost 20 hackathon projects in the past seven years. One year, I was on six hackathon....
This Microsoft Garage intern shares how she refused to let fear define her
In high school, Kristen Laird experienced terrible burns as a result of a lab experiment explosion. She struggled for years with fear of flames, and decided to turn it around by looking her fear straight in the face and becoming an EMT (emergency medical technician) and a volunteer fire fighter. Through this experience, she has learned to experiment, explore, and....
The Garage Reality Room arrives
Just as the Microsoft Garage has created makerspaces around the world to give our employees and interns the opportunity to get hands-on with 3D printing and hardware-oriented projects, we have recently created several “Reality Rooms” at our Garage locations. These specialized spaces provide quick access to the latest in Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Mixed Reality (collectively called “XR”) all....
Seven hackathon lessons learned from my battle with lymphoma
Last week, I received some of the best news of my life. And the news came at a pretty exciting time. I received the phone call half an hour before the closing ceremony of Microsoft’s 2017 Hackathon, an event that my team puts on. For the Microsoft Garage, a team helping change the way the company works 52 weeks of....
Fast design
You’re too slow! Come on Designers — keep up! With new books out on Design Sprints and Lean UX, the dozens of rapid prototyping tools now available, and thousands of Designers who can code up their own ideas, you’d think that the Design community was moving faster than it ever has. But, that’s just not true. “Design is doing some stellar work....
A commitment to worldwide innovation
What began in 2009 as an underground offshoot of Office Labs has mushroomed into a global program inspiring Microsoft employees, interns, and the industry to reconsider how cultural reinvention and innovation can indeed happen.
The Microsoft Garage celebrates 2 years as a powerful resource for trying new ideas
Step 1: Turn your passion into a project A mantra resonates throughout The Garage: Doers, not talkers. In the last two years, The Garage has evolved from a 24-hour idea factory to a program dedicated to encouraging all employees to take their ideas and bring them to life. The Garage provides resources such as expert advisors, maker spaces, hackathon tools,....
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