Follow the news from Microsoft Africa by joining the twitter account: Microsoft Africa-Twitter account and read the Microsoft on the Issues: Africa blog.

Some stories include Microsoft Supports Research4Life Agora Programme entry on partnership with Research4Life’s Agora program to help farmers in Burkina Faso gain access to relevant information and innovative solutions.  You can watch a six minute broadcast piece on the Research4Life, AGORA program with CNBC Africa

Read the developments with academic with the post about Worldwide Innovative Educators Forum leading the way for teachers.

Why Steve Jobs' Pixar uses Microsoft Windows Azure

http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/226427.asp

Here’s a great use of Azure by Steve Jobs’ Pixar company. Typically a movie studio makes its money from its end product – the film. But in this case, the rendering technology, taken into the Cloud with Azure, allows the studio to resell the processing as a service.