Microsoft is to co-brand the new "communications hubs" currently being installed in Sheraton properties worldwide.
The hi-tech lobby lounges - now cumbersomely named "Link @ Sheraton experienced with Microsoft" - feature complimentary wi-fi and internet-enabled computer stations, some fitted with webcams, as well as televisions, daily newspapers, and a food and beverage service.
So far, 66 of the 408 Sheratons worldwide have been kitted out with the new "hubs", although the target is to install them in more than 300 hotels by the year-end.