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June 24, 2014

Microsoft’s top lawyer calls on Congress to end the NSA’s ‘unfettered bulk collection of data’

June 24, 2014

Startups under Microsoft’s wing raise $8m in latest accelerator batch

June 24, 2014

Microsoft makes bet quantum computing is next breakthrough

June 24, 2014

Staff App Pick: Learning the alphabet is fun and easy with ‘Elmo Loves ABCs’ for Windows

The customization of this app is amazing – from the ability to add your own photos and videos to the game to being able to watch the progress of your child – it all makes learning the basic building blocks of the written language easy and fun to learn.

June 24, 2014

Brad Smith: ‘The Future of Global Technology, Privacy and Regulation’

Remarks by Brad Smith, Executive Vice President and General Counsel; Washington, D.C., June 24, 2014.

June 24, 2014

Microsoft Devices Group expands affordable smartphone portfolio with the Nokia X2

Delivers compelling introduction to second-generation devices and software platform.

June 24, 2014

Here’s how to shop smart for groceries using OneNote

Nicholas Kerr and his wife used to keep their shopping lists on sticky notes in the kitchen, and “usually neither of us was near the list when either of us thought of something to add.” That problem and more got solved by creating a To Do list in OneNote.

June 24, 2014

‘Learning from cloud’ series looks at how to approach whether to go hybrid

Monday’s “Learning from cloud” blog series focuses on a question now facing every IT professional: “In a cloud first, mobile first world, how should my approach to infrastructure change?”

June 23, 2014

‘Safer Families’ helps mom and dad learn parental settings for Xbox, Windows and Windows Phone

In a recent Microsoft survey of 1,000 parents of children ages 5 to 16, half said they don’t know how to use online safety settings on the devices their children use. The other half know how – but haven’t done it yet. Now, Safer Families makes it fast and easy to learn the settings you can control in a series of short videos.

June 23, 2014

Microsoft Interflow, a security and threat information exchange platform, announced

Interflow uses industry specifications to create an automated, machine-readable feed of threat and security information that can be shared across industries and groups in near real-time. The platform will also help reduce cost of defense by automating processes that are currently performed manually.