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August 26, 2014

‘Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain’ looks at the less serious side of stealth-action espionage

As “Metal Gear Solid” fans know, director Hideo Kojima’s stealth-espionage series “enjoys tickling ribs when protagonist Snake isn’t breaking them,” as Xbox Wire puts it. “Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain,” Snake’s next world-saving mission, also brings a sense of humor to the mix – and some road apples.

August 26, 2014

Lync Mobile update for iPad adds Gallery View, other features for iPad and iPhone

With Gallery View, you can have four video streams in a Lync meeting on the iPad. The update also delivers two highly requested features, both dealing with managing meeting attendees, for iPad and iPhone.

August 26, 2014

Kinect for Windows could help Parkinson’s patients rehab at home

Gustaf von Dewall – a business developer with the Swedish-based consultant Softronic – presents a project called Kinecting Parkinson’s to demonstrate how Kinect for Windows is a cost-effective way for patients with the disease to do rehab exercises at home. It can also help physicians follow up with their patients more often through remote monitoring.

August 26, 2014

Students can learn anytime, anywhere with Windows 8 devices and Office 365

With today’s technology, students are no longer bound to physical classrooms to pursue their education. Office 365 and Windows 8 devices connected to the Internet can help them learn almost anywhere.

August 26, 2014

3-part series concludes with look at how Microsoft is shaping the future of cybersecurity

A post Tuesday on the Microsoft Security Blog concludes Trustworthy Computing’s three-part series on Cyberspace 2025: Today’s Decisions, Tomorrow’s Terrain. This series presented three possible perspectives of the world and cyberspace.

August 26, 2014

You’re a survivor, but can you help the rest of mankind? Find out in ‘Metro Redux,’ now available on Xbox One

It’s 2033, two decades after the Earth was devastated by an apocalyptic event and turned into a poisonous wasteland. You are among those who took to living in the Moscow Metro underground in order to survive.

August 26, 2014

New Azure SQL Database service tiers will be available in September with reduced pricing

In September, new service tiers with reduced prices will debut for Azure SQL Database, the database-as-a-service that gives customers greater price performance and business continuity for cloud apps.

August 26, 2014

Hear ye, hear ye! Listen to articles using Share to Speech app for Windows Phone, PCs and tablets

The Share to Speech app turns articles into speech or MP3 files by sharing a Web page or pasting its link. It can also convert Microsoft Word and PowerPoint documents, along with many other text files, into the spoken word.

August 26, 2014

Check out ‘Crysis 3,’ ‘Fallout: New Vegas’ and ‘Skyrim’ as part of this week’s Deals with Gold

Prices are good through Friday, Sept. 1, and there’s plenty more to choose from, including a special “Xbox Binge Watch and Play Sale,” which offers savings on games like “Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare,” “Left 4 Dead,” “Ridge Racer Unbounded,” “LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga” and many other of your favorites games.

August 26, 2014

At KDD conference, Microsoft’s Eric Horvitz delivers keynote on data mining, deep learning

As applied to helping people and society, Horvitz raised examples of traffic predictions, wind-monitoring systems and predicting hospital readmissions in the context of developing an informational pipeline that uses data to make a prediction that leads to a decision. He also talked about the value of work to minimize errors in health care.