Month: June 2013

You could say it’s the appocalypse, an app attack or an appalanche. Whatever you call it, the heavy-hitting apps keep coming to Windows and Windows Phone, and Steve Guggenheimer announced a fresh list of Windows 8 apps today at Build 2013 that’s well worth checking out.

Microsoft is hoping to have a history-making year at TechEd Europe 2013, with notable advances from the Windows Server, System Center, SQL Server and Intune product teams. TechEd Europe and TechEd North America offer hundreds of sessions that are available online. In this post, the Server and Cloud Platform team rounds up a few other resources you might find helpful.

Among all the other news Wednesday at Build 2013, Microsoft announced major improvements coming to the Windows Store. A new design, new developer features and new promotional opportunities will make the Windows Store an even better platform for app builders to monetize their creations.

Global telecommunications company Telefónica S.A. has 340 million customers around the world. To make sure it keeps them connected, the company is changing the way it delivers IT services to businesses using a hybrid private-public cloud strategy.

How the public sector can “flip the switch” to reduce waste, get energy efficient, and save money. These strategies can not only reduce your energy expenditures but also potentially reduce your long-term operating expenses on buildings, transportation infrastructure, and IT equipment — three big areas where the savings keep piling up.

On June 26, Telefónica announced an arrangement that puts additional marketing muscle behind Windows Phone 8 devices in the U.K., Germany, Spain, Mexico, Brazil and Chile. The enhanced marketing effort, in cooperation with Microsoft, aims to boost sales of Windows Phone 8 devices and offer a strong alternative for customers.

At Day Two of the Build 2013 conference in San Francisco, Microsoft showed the thousands of developers in attendance (and thousands more online) the opportunity for creating new apps and services on the Windows platform.

“Look out – it’s an appalanche!” quipped Windows Phone blogger Michael Stroh about the five major apps that launched in the Windows Phone Store this morning. Here’s a look at all five new apps.