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September 30, 2014
Updates to Bing apps include rebranding to MSN and easier access from Lock screen

Tuesday’s updates to the Bing apps provides one unified and consistent Azure-powered experience across all devices to MSN in the cloud. Bing apps – which span Weather, News, Sports, Finance, Travel, Health & Fitness, and Food & Drink on devices running Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 – will now be branded to reflect their alignment to the MSN premium experience.

September 30, 2014
The new MSN is here!

Over the next 72 hours, more than 425 million people in 50 countries around the world will start seeing the new MSN on their screens, built from the ground up to provide a more personalized and productive experience for each person.

September 30, 2014
At EDUCAUSE 2014, Microsoft focuses on business intelligence, Azure and Office 365

Solutions can come in the form of business intelligence tools, like Power BI for Office 365. As Margo Day, vice president of U.S. Education for Microsoft, writes, “Getting students the classes they need to graduate on time, modeling class capacity and space requirements, and other key operational requirements to running a healthy operation, actually require capturing and analyzing thousands of data points.”

September 30, 2014
Safeguard your Skype account by taking these steps

Skype takes security seriously, and to help you better safeguard your account, there are some steps you can perform every few months as regular maintenance, writes Matthew de Beer in a blog post.

September 29, 2014
Microsoft’s tools help a treasury run more effectively

While a lot has been written about the health of the banking industry, less has been written about the “risk and impact of financial system instability on the daily operations of a multinational treasury,” writes Colin Kerr, Microsoft’s director of business development for financial services, in a blog post.