CEO Satya Nadella on Tuesday took the occasion of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to announce that Microsoft plans to donate US$1 billion worth of cloud services to serve nonprofits and university researchers over the next three years. The company’s recently formed Microsoft Philanthropies unit will manage the contribution as part of a three-part effort to provide cloud services to worthy nonprofits, boost access to university researchers, and increase last-mile Internet access to communities that lack basic services.
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Microsoft Cloud Rains Free Services on Nonprofits
Posted by: David Jones January 21, 2016 11:54 AMCEO Satya Nadella on Tuesday took the occasion of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to announce that Microsoft plans to donate US$1 billion worth of cloud services to serve nonprofits and university researchers over the next three years. The company’s recently formed Microsoft Philanthropies unit will manage the contribution as part of a three-part effort to provide cloud services to worthy nonprofits, boost access to university researchers, and increase last-mile Internet access to communities that lack basic services.