Building a responsible future
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Our commitments
Expand opportunity
We believe economic growth and opportunity must reach every person, organization, community, and country. This starts with ensuring everyone has the skills to thrive in a digital, AI-enabled economy, and extends to empowering nonprofits, entrepreneurs, and other organizations to digitally transform and address society’s biggest challenges.
Earn trust
To create positive impact with technology, people need to trust the technologies they use and the companies behind them. That’s why we’re committed to the responsible development and use of AI, protecting privacy, and advancing digital safety and cybersecurity.
Protect fundamental rights
When our technology changes the world, we have a responsibility to protect people’s fundamental rights while extending the benefits of technology and working to mitigate potential harm. For us, this means promoting responsible business practices, expanding accessibility and connectivity, and advancing fair and inclusive societies.
Advance sustainability
Climate change is the defining issue of our generation, and addressing it requires swift, collective action and technological innovation. We are committed to meeting our own goals while enabling others to do the same. That means taking responsibility for our operational footprint and accelerating progress through technology.
Our progress
Trained and certified 14.1 million people globally with the skills needed for the digital economy over the past four years
Process over 78 trillion security signals globally every day and have used the resulting insights to inform increased protections
Helped bring high-speed internet access to more than 100 million people in unserved communities around the world since 2017
Contracted for more than 34 gigawatts of renewable energy assets, including projects in 21 countries around the world
"Now is the time for urgent action. Those of us that can do more, should do more. But the challenges we face are complex, and no one company, sector, or country can solve them alone."
— Brad Smith, Vice Chair and President of Microsoft
Stories of impact
Putting AI to work for the planet
Defending rural hospitals against cyberattacks
Creating the newsroom of the future
Supporting career growth in a digital economy
Our approach to building a better future
