America

With the holidays fully upon us, we wanted to give you Tumblr enthusiasts a little gift. We’ve created a holiday template as part of our Picture Perfect Holiday campaign taking place in malls across America. You should take a moment to check it out here. It features behind the scenes shots from our holiday photo shoot with the Santas as they play around in the Dallas Fort Worth airport.

When you think of taking and creating great family photos, you might not immediately think of your Windows 7 PC as the central destination point. But with your Windows 7 PC combined with Windows Live Photo Gallery, you can manage, edit and share all those great holiday portraits. That is one of the reasons why Windows partnered with Southwest airlines to bring you the opportunity to take holiday photos while in malls and airports across America.

Who will be the next small business to thrive in America?  We can’t wait to find out!  We’re partnering with Dell on a contest to find the next small business that is trailblazing new ground. 

Tell Dell why your business is unique and how you would benefit from the chance to win over $75,000 in cash and prizes. This includes $25,000 in Dell products loaded with Windows 7 Professional and Microsoft Office Home and Business 2010 as well as a $50,000 prepaid card from MasterCard. 

This morning Dell announced the new the new Inspiron M5030, the first Spanish-language laptop available in the U.S., to Los Angeles consumers.  It’s the same laptop that Dell successfully introduced to customers in Miami and Atlanta in April.  The M5030 is a really cool concept; it’s a great 15” laptop packed with an AMD Athlon™ II Dual-Core P360, 4GB of RAM, a huge 320GB hard drive, discrete ATI HD graphics, and an HD screen, and it’s outfitted with a Spanish-language keyboard and a Spanish version

Last June, we highlighted how Windows 7 is helping Feeding America save time and earlier this spring, we announced that the network of food banks has completed its nationwide rollout of Windows 7! Today we’d like to talk more about their deployment and congratulate Feeding America on this great accomplishment!

Have you been caught in a spring cleaning funk? No worries, Windows Live Hotmail is here to solve your problems and give you a few freebies along the way. Jen Singer of Mommasaid.net and Hotmail are hosting a Twitter Party on April 06, 2011 from 8-9pm EST with special guest Joyce Cohen of the New York Times. She has tips on how to spring clean in tiny spaces and we have tips on how to clean your inbox. If you combine us both, we have the recipe for a perfectly clean office/workspace.

The Microsoft Education team shared the graphic below with us last week.  As students head back to school, they’re going to face a job climate that will increasingly require tech skills – 77% of jobs will require some tech within the next ten years.