One sunny morning in December, sixth-grader Sophia Sta. Rosa and a classmate were busy working on a book report project, using “Minecraft: Education Edition” to build an amusement park with rides ...

For years, Microsoft, Apple, and others have offered educational discounts to students. Now, Microsoft has gone significantly further, providing a free copy of Office to students whose schools license ...

A good manager is always looking for ways to squeeze dollars out of dimes when making purchases for a business. One way to reduce costs when buying products with multiple stock-keeping units, or SKUs, ...

It's easy for students to search the web when working on assignments, but Microsoft now wants to teach those students how to spot misinformation and otherwise think critically. In addition to an ...

DreamSpark offers millions of students access to professional-grade software developer and designer tools. Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates today will unveil a software giveaway that will ...

Leontios J. Hadjileontiadis is an electrical and computer engineering professor at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece, and Khalifa University of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi, United ...

Free alternatives may exist for Microsoft Office components, but sometimes they can’t stand in for the original. And as a student, the new cost of $100 per year for a Microsoft 365 Personal account is ...

Microsoft has acquired San Diego-based TakeLessons for an undisclosed amount, as first reported by TechCrunch on September 10. TakeLessons is a collaboration platform designed to connect students with ...

Microsoft Word enables you to create personalized envelopes. Organizations can use the word processor to streamline mailing procedures; for example, rather than fill in your company's address each ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 ...

Microsoft has rolled out Reading Progress, a free education tool for Teams that gives teachers artificial intelligence (AI) estimations of student performance and errors when reading text. The Teams ...

It is estimated that one in five students has dyslexia, yet there are likely far more who have not yet been diagnosed in today’s classrooms. These students, who see the written word differently, are ...