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June 17, 2014

Compete on behalf of your nation in ‘Kinect Sports Rivals: Summer of Sport’ now through July

To join in the competition, head to your “Kinect Sports Rivals” locker room and find 39 different national kits. Equip yourself with your nation’s team kit and compete across all six sports, earning bonus fans for your country along the way.

June 17, 2014

With 6 million downloads already, ‘Drift Mania’ developer seeks to expand reach with Windows Phone 8.1

Pat Toulouse, a 3D artist and Unity developer, has enjoyed huge success with the “Drift Mania” series, which has had 6 million downloads on Windows and Windows Phone devices, twice the number of downloads on any other platform over the last few months.

June 17, 2014

Microsoft turned Friday the 13th into a lucky day for some

The unsuspecting café-goers’ received new Lumia 1520 and 620 phones, as well as Xbox One consoles, Surface 2 Pro tablets, Office 365 and Skype subscriptions.

June 17, 2014

PHT chooses Windows 8.1 for real-time collection of patient information

PHT Corporation, has selected Dell Venue 11 Pro tablets with Windows 8.1 to run its SitePad® System, which replaces traditional paper data collection in clinical research and is used in clinical trials to collect clinician- and patient-reported outcomes.

June 17, 2014

Microsoft Research and Bing present Catapult, a project that delivers performance improvements in datacenters

Operating a datacenter requires managing many conflicting requirements. The ability to deliver computation at a high level quickly is a given, but because of the demands such a facility must meet, a datacenter also needs flexibility. It also has to be efficient in its use of power, keeping costs as low as possible.

June 17, 2014

‘Every Street United’ now playing on Xbox

Join legendary footballers Thierry Henry and Edgar Davids as they travel to the United States, England, Argentina, Spain, Brazil, the Netherlands, Ghana and South Korea to uncover the best street soccer players from around the world.

June 17, 2014

Advertising creatives and their clients chat about what they expect from Cannes Lions 2014

When you gather a group of advertising creatives to brainstorm about what makes ideas great, what multi-screen means and what they expect from Cannes Lions 2104, you get the video here.

June 17, 2014

Fitz and the Tantrums, Chromeo musicians talk Bonnaroo, games with Xbox Wire

Xbox Wire sat down with some of the performers at last weekend’s Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival to get their takes on both real and virtual favorite pastimes. Among those interviewed: Joe Karnes, bassist for Fitz and the Tantrums, and Dave 1 (aka David Macklovitch), guitarist and lead vocalist for Chromeo.

June 17, 2014

Nebraska’s Lincoln Electric System moves to the cloud with Orbit, based on Azure

Lincoln Electric System (LES), a utility company that serves more than 114,000 residential customers and 15,000 commercial and industrial customers in Nebraska, has selected Microsoft partner Schneider Electric for field-based asset inspection and management using Orbit as a solution.

June 16, 2014

Holy new Batmobile! This baby switches from driving to combat in ‘Batman: Arkham Knight’

A new villain, the Arkham Knight, is waging war on Gotham, and only the Caped Crusader can put a stop to it in “Batman: Arkham Knight.” Fortunately, Batman’s Batmobile is all new, designed specifically for this game, and you’ll be using it a lot.