To help address this need, today Microsoft is launching a global skills initiative aimed at bringing more digital skills to 25 million people worldwide by the end of the year. This initiative will bring together every part of our company, combining existing and new resources from LinkedIn, GitHub, and Microsoft. It will be grounded in three areas of activity:
10 million people now help Microsoft test Windows 10
At its heart, this is a comprehensive technology initiative that will build on data and digital technology. It starts with data on jobs and skills from the LinkedIn Economic Graph. It provides free access to content in LinkedIn Learning, Microsoft Learn, and the GitHub Learning Lab, and couples these with Microsoft Certifications and LinkedIn job seeking tools. In addition, Microsoft is backing the effort with $20 million in cash grants to help nonprofit organizations worldwide assist the people who need it most. One-quarter of this total, or $5 million, will be provided in cash grants to community-based nonprofit organizations that are led by and serve communities of color in the United States.
According to Microsoft calculations, global unemployment in 2020 may reach a quarter of a billion people. It is a staggering number. The pandemic respects no border. In the United States alone, the Congressional Budget Office estimates the country may witness a 12.3 point increase (from 3.5% to 15.8%) in the unemployment rate, equating to more than 21 million newly out-of-work people. Many other countries and continents face similar challenges.
To help people pursue jobs in these areas, we are making LinkedIn Learning paths aligned with each of these roles available free of charge through the end of March 2021. Each learning path includes a sequence of video content designed to help job seekers develop the core skills needed for each role. Each learning path is currently available in English, French, Spanish, and German.
We believe the strength of these resources is their comprehensive nature. To help people find and navigate all of our offerings, we have made all of these resources accessible from a single location: opportunity.linkedin.com. A job seeker or anyone looking to develop these on-demand skills can start here and will be guided through the learning paths based on the roles in which they are interested.
In part this will enable nonprofits to translate these resources into additional languages and to localize and tailor the learning content. These groups will also provide and support teachers and facilitators to help learners complete learning pathways and certification, and provide connections to wrap-around supports, coaching, and mentoring. We expect these grants will enable the nonprofits to reach 5 million unemployed workers, with a focus on particularly vulnerable groups. This includes people with disabilities, people from low-income communities, and people from diverse backgrounds that are underrepresented in tech, including women and underrepresented minorities.
As this detailed description makes clear, we are launching today the most comprehensive approach we have ever undertaken to meet the digital skilling needs of individuals and employers alike. We believe we can provide meaningful help to more than 25 million people globally in the coming months.
LinkedIn Learning is an online educational platform that helps people discover and develop business, technology-related, and creative skills through expert-led course videos. With a catalogue of over 16,000 courses, and 60+ new courses released every week, LinkedIn Learning provides high-quality, relevant and up-to-date courses taught by real-world practitioners, located across the globe. Drawing on insights from millions of members, LinkedIn Learning personalizes course recommendations at scale and surfaces relevant learning content to each employee based on their connections.
Microsoft Learn is a free, interactive, hands-on training platform that helps people develop in-demand technical skills related to widely used Microsoft products and services including Azure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Microsoft Dynamics, and more.
Microsoft Learn combines short step-by-step trainings, browser-based interactive coding and scripting environments, and task-based achievements to help learners advance their technical skills and prepare for Microsoft Certifications. With millions of registered learners, Microsoft Learn offers over 225 learning paths, more than 1,000 modules, and is localized in dozens of languages. Microsoft Learn is great for individual users to advance their skills, as well as organizations that want to create curated employee training paths.
Virus & threat protection in Windows Security helps you scan for threats on your device. You can also run different types of scans, see the results of your previous virus and threat scans, and get the latest protection offered by Microsoft Defender Antivirus.
Microsoft launched Windows Insider for developers, enterprise testers and the "technically able" to test new developer features on pre-release software and builds to gather low level diagnostics feedback in order to identify, investigate, mitigate and improve Windows 10, with the help, support and guidance of the Insider program Participants, in direct communication with Microsoft Engineers via a proprietary communication and diagnostic channel.
It was announced on September 30, 2014, along with Windows 10.[6] By September 2015, over 7 million people took part in the Windows Insider program.[7] On February 12, 2015, Microsoft started to test out previews of Windows 10 Mobile.[8] Microsoft announced that the Windows Insider program would continue beyond the official release of Windows 10 for future updates.
Microsoft originally launched Windows Insider for enterprise testers and the "technically able" to test out new developer features and to gather feedback to improve the features built into Windows 10.[11] By the time of the official launch of Windows 10 for PCs, a total of 5 million volunteers were registered on both Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile. They were also among the first people to receive the official update to Windows 10.[12]
Kuppusamy is crystal clear about what Cortana is today: a personal productivity assistant for use with Outlook and Teams. And in the future? There are no grand plans for controlling smart homes, playing music, or similar tasks. Cortana will be laser focused on helping people work better and smarter with Microsoft productivity software, starting with those two products.
Cortana also works in concert with Teams, letting you do things such as joining or ending Teams meetings and adding people to meetings. In Teams, it will also help you find information relevant to your meetings by tapping into AI.
.css-cumn2rheight:1em;width:1.5em;margin-right:3px;vertical-align:baseline;fill:#C70000;Microsoft opened up a new 'Insiders' program with the release of Windows 10 technical preview and the company has said today that over 1 million users have signed up for the program. That's quite a few folks who want to try out the latest offering from Microsoft and will help shape the upcoming OS.
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For almost 20 years, the GCFGlobal.org program has helped millions around the world learn the essential skills they need to live and work in the 21st century by offering self-paced online courses. We invite you to utilize our courses, here and on YouTube, and highly recommend making an account to access all of our services, including course tracking, view history, eCoaching, and more!
As part of this, Microsoft will also be providing $5 million in cash grants to community not-for-profit organizations in the U.S that are led by and serve communities of color. This will help develop skills specifically for Black and African American workers, addressing racial inequalities in U.S. society.
The problem is most people remain blissfully unaware of that fact and continue to use, and reuse, those same passwords that are now in criminal circulation. Stolen passwords quickly end up on the dark web, to be sold or freely circulated within the cybercriminal community. When Google was beta-testing its Password Checkup extension for the Chrome browser, in a single month it found 316,000 compromised passwords that were still in use. The Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report 2019, meanwhile, determined that weak or compromised passwords were used in 80% of all hacking-related breaches.
The other someone-slap-me-so-the-bad-dream-will-be-over moment was in an analysis of software. According to Microsoft, over half of the top applications, by their nature, are non-web related. In that category, the company includes productivity apps, games, and imaging/printing. I'm dumbfounded as to how out-of-touch the company can be. You'd think any company that would brag about 23 million Xbox Live users would understand that people, by their nature, like to play games with company. Productivity apps? If by their nature the Web is unimportant to them, why bother to have a Web-hosted set of office productivity applications (that still suck compare to Google (GOOG) Docs). And imaging and printing? Better tell HP (HPQ) that the Web-centric printing and imaging activity is a waste of its time.
Microsoft has criticized the FCC for severely underestimating the number of Americans who lack broadband access. The tech company reckons 162 million people across the US can't access broadband speeds, while the FCC estimates the number to be just 21 million.
In 2020, an estimated 10 million people were infected with TB worldwide, 5.8 million people were newly diagnosed with TB, 1.5 million deaths were recorded, and over 4 million of whom went undiagnosed predominantly due to the globally reduced access to TB diagnostic services [9]. Access to diagnostics remains a major challenge to developing countries which bear the greatest burden of TB delaying the initiation of timely treatment. Most of these deaths could have been prevented via early laboratory diagnosis which will further facilitate the way to appropriate treatment provision [8]. 2ff7e9595c
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