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Four statements stacked on top of each other reading, from top to bottom: Expand opportunity, Earn trust, Protect fundamental rights, and Advance sustainability.

Building a responsible future

In this era of AI, we remain committed to responsible innovation—ensuring that our technology benefits everyone and helps address society’s most pressing challenges.
Read the 2023 Impact Summary Explore our impact

Our commitments

As we pursue our mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, we focus on four enduring commitments. These commitments help us make decisions across everything we do—as we design and develop products, shape business processes and policies, help our customers, build partnerships, and more—always ensuring our actions align with our mission.
How can we expand opportunity?

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.
Learn about our approach

Earn trust

To create positive impact with technology, people must be able to trust the technologies they use and the companies behind them. That’s why we’re committed to the responsible use of AI, protecting privacy, and advancing digital safety and cybersecurity.
Learn how we work to earn trust
How can we earn trust?
How can we protect fundamental rights?

Protect fundamental rights

In an increasingly digital world, we have a responsibility to protect people’s fundamental rights, address the challenges technology creates, and help all communities succeed. For us, this means promoting responsible business practices, expanding accessibility and connectivity, advancing fair and inclusive societies, and empowering communities.
Learn how we protect rights

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.
View sustainability programs Learn about our progress
How can we advance sustainability?

Our progress

As we work to help everyone achieve more, we are committed to sharing our learnings and reporting our progress.

Trained and certified 8.5 million people around the world with in-demand skills for the digital economy over the past three years

Process over 65 trillion security signals globally each day and have used the resulting insights to inform increased protections

Helped bring high-speed internet access to more than 63 million people in unserved communities around the world since 2017

Provided more than 550,000 people with access to clean water and sanitation solutions in Brazil, India, Indonesia, and Mexico

“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

Learn more about how we are building a more inclusive, sustainable, and trusted future for everyone.
Manjusha M., a cybersecurity associate with CyberShikshaa, sits at a desk in an office in front of a laptop.

Helping everyone build skills for success

Demand for cybersecurity professionals is growing and the opportunity for women in the field is huge. We partner with organizations like CyberShikshaa to help develop an inclusive cyber workforce and close the skills gap around the world.

Learn about the opportunity
Mia Scavella-Little, Amy Hogan-Burney, and Richard Boscovich in the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit building.

Inside the fight against hackers

To combat hackers’ misuse of a powerful IT security tool, Microsoft and Fortra partnered up to seize, block, and disrupt infrastructure linked to “cracked” versions of the tool. The number of cracked Cobalt Strike servers detected per day has declined by 25%.

Read the story
Mentra founder Jhillika Kumar poses with her brother, Vikram.

The future of work is neurodiverse

Neurodivergent job-seekers encounter significant barriers when applying for a job. Mentra’s AI evaluates over 76 data points into a single application which then uses AI recommendations to connect them with potential employers.

See the power of AI in action
Construction workers pour concrete from a large mixing truck into a frame on the ground.

Laying the foundation for buildings of tomorrow

Embodied carbon is responsible for 8% of global GHG, yet reducing or eliminating embodied carbon from concrete and steel is difficult. Microsoft is piloting new concrete mixes at our Quincy, WA datacenter, with a goal to lower embodied carbon in concrete by more than 50%.

Learn about the pilot

Our approach to building a better future

Learn more about our approach to building a more inclusive, sustainable, and trusted future for everyone.

Partnering for greater impact

We activate resources from across our business and our ecosystem to drive progress faster and farther than we could on our own.

Learn about how we work

Leading with transparency

Our Reports Hub provides a single, consolidated view of key reports and resources related to our programs and progress.

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Understanding the issues

Read the recent news and perspectives on today's pressing societal and tech issues from Microsoft.

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