Thanks, Puget Sound | Microsoft Puget Sound

One Future

This anniversary is not only about wanting again. It’s about wanting ahead to construct on our collective success. As Seattle seems to be ahead to a brand new waterfront with vibrant, accessible, and sustainable public areas, we’re excited to announce our reward to Associates of Waterfront Park. This undertaking has been ongoing because the Metropolis of Seattle started building of the park after eradicating the Viaduct in 2019 and has already turn out to be a spot the place locals meet, and vacationers come to study what’s so particular concerning the metropolis. This grant will assist assist programming, building, public security, and upkeep on the park—leaving a bodily legacy for the neighborhood to take pleasure in for generations to come back.

Innovation has lengthy been a trademark of the area, one which Microsoft has each benefited from and contributed to. We’re persevering with that custom with neighborhood companions on the College of Washington and Fred Hutch, amongst others, working collectively to establish alternatives for our AI for Good Lab to leverage the facility of AI and knowledge science to create new alternatives for our neighborhood to develop collectively. We shall be sharing extra about these tasks within the month forward, and we will’t wait to see what impression they may have proper right here in our yard.

The assist of the larger Puget Sound neighborhood has been instrumental in shaping Microsoft, and we owe a debt of gratitude to the folks and organizations which have stood by us for nearly 50 years. Thanks. We share a imaginative and prescient of 1 future, our future that may be a resilient, inclusive Puget Sound the place everybody thrives and the place innovation prospers. We could not know what the following decade has in retailer, however we’re excited to deal with the alternatives that lie forward, collectively.