Month: September 2014

September 29, 2014

A new, interactive platform, the Microsoft Prediction Lab, has launched as a website-based showcase and laboratory for the ongoing work of David Rothschild, a Microsoft researcher and leading expert in a new kind of data-driven predictive methodology.

September 29, 2014

Microsoft will open a flagship location in New York City that will serve as the “centerpiece of our Microsoft Stores experience,” David Porter, Corporate Vice President, Retail Stores, announced Monday.

September 29, 2014

App developers for Windows and Windows Phone take advantage of the opportunity to publish to multiple countries, so it’s important for them to be able to analyze performance by market. Now they can, through the World Map in pubCenter.

September 29, 2014

At the Sibos conference in Boston that begins Monday, Microsoft customers and partners are showcasing new technology to help financial institutions become digital banks. As Karen Cone, general manager of Worldwide Financial Services for Microsoft, writes on The Official Microsoft Blog, this includes new Windows 8 apps, demonstrations on how the cloud can help banks do business in underserved and emerging markets, and a new partnership with the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis center to help banks fight cybercrime.