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A Webby Technical Achievement Winner in 2001, Windows turned the PC into a household staple, and with Office and eventually Office 365, Microsoft trained billions to expect constant updates, subscriptions, and software delivered through the network instead of shrink-wrapped on a shelf. Xbox.com, recognized at The Webbys Awards in 2006, marked the moment gaming truly went online, and Xbox Live made play social, giving the Internet gamertags, party chat, and the first taste of global multiplayer culture. Some of Microsoft’s biggest cultural engines began elsewhere and were brought into the fold: LinkedIn, first recognized at the Webbys in 2007, made professional identity public and ongoing; Minecraft, a 2012 Webby winner before joining Microsoft, became a creative commons and then a classroom through Education Edition. Today, Copilot sits inside Office and GitHub, while the acquisition of Activision Blizzard added Call of Duty and World of Warcraft to its cultural arsenal. From work to play, résumés to raids, accessibility apps to AI copilots, the Internet’s backbone still runs on Microsoft.
NOTABLE WORKS
Xbox.com (2006)
LinkedIn (2007)
Dan Nye, Kay Luo and David Multer of LinkedIn at The 11th Annual Webby Awards
Seeing AI App (2018)
Microsoft at the 13th Annual Webby Awards
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