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June 11, 2014

How using the cloud is helping insurance companies make better – and faster – decisions

In separate posts on the Microsoft Vertical Industries blog, officials with insurance companies Numerix and Milliman explain why their companies turned to Microsoft Azure to help make more-informed decisions and to arrive at them more quickly.

June 10, 2014

Make free video and voice calls and send texts via ooVoo messaging app, now on Windows Phone

The messaging app ooVoo – used by more than 100 million people worldwide – is now available for Windows Phones. This free service helps you connect with friends near and far with free video calls, voice calls and text messages.

June 10, 2014

Enter Surface ‘Transformation Challenge’ and you could win $1,000 and prominent spots on DeviantART, Motherboard sites

On Tuesday, the Surface Team announced the “Transformation Challenge – Drawn Together with Surface,” which gives you two weeks to submit a three-panel drawing of a radical transformation of yourself or a fictional character.

June 10, 2014

Lync for Mac update includes Enhanced 911 functionality with location awareness feature

“With E911, you can customize your location and enable a more precise emergency response location (ERL), in addition to sharing your location with other users,” write Nikolay Muravlyannikov, a Lync program manager, and Barak Manor, a Lync product manager, in a blog post.

June 10, 2014

Ditch the paper! Scan your stuff directly to OneNote using NeatConnect

Tired of hunting around for receipts, business cards or other documents? Now, before you lose those pieces of paper or they pile up, you can scan them into OneNote using NeatConnect.

June 10, 2014

Take flight as the ‘Phoenix Force’ – now available in the Windows Store

“Phoenix Force” rose out of the AppCampus program and became a popular and highly rated game on Windows Phone. Now, it’s available for Windows PCs and tablets.

June 10, 2014

‘Far Cry 4,’ ‘Rainbow Six Siege,’ ‘Assassin’s Creed Unity’ among Ubisoft games announced at E3

In open-world, action-adventure series “Far Cry 4,” there’s a new villain and a new setting. You’ll find yourself in the Himalayan foothills, hunted by a villain who is “very particular with his words,” Xbox Wire writes. The game is due Nov. 18.

June 10, 2014

8 Disney games are free – for a limited time – for Windows Phone, PCs and tablets

You can now get eight Disney games for free for Windows Phone, PCs and tablets. You may recognize characters and scenery from popular TV shows and movies in this sale, which ends June 24.

June 10, 2014

What did the fox say? ‘Make me the star of your Windows desktop theme’

Want to celebrate your Windows desktop theme with foxes? You can with a new, free collection of beautiful photographs of the animals. It’s among the new desktop themes that are now available.

June 10, 2014

Meet Riham Mansour, Microsoft researcher and mentor in Egypt

In the short time Riham Mansour has been at the Microsoft Research Advanced Technology Lab in Cairo, she has already demonstrated her talent as an applied researcher, mentor and role model for other women in technology.