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April 18, 2014

Holograph project brings interactive 3D platform to big data

Curtis Wong, the Microsoft Research scientist who gave the world the WorldWide Telescope, demonstrated a project called Holograph during Microsoft Research’s Silicon Valley TechFair Thursday. It’s an interactive, 3D data-visualization research platform that can render static and dynamic data above or below the plane of a display, using a variety of 3D stereographic techniques.

April 18, 2014

Programmers: Naiad platform makes it easy to get data into Azure

During Microsoft Research’s recent Silicon Valley TechFair, the “Naiad on Azure: Rich, Interactive Cloud Analytics” project showcased an aspect of the big-data movement that focuses on enabling data analysts to develop an application and then deploy it seamlessly to the cloud.

April 18, 2014

‘Why I Don’t Read Your Resume’ and other insights from the Yammer team

Yammer has lots of talented folks, and to prove it, in March the Yammer Product team embarked on a month-long adventure to produce a blog post every business day of the month.

April 18, 2014

Visual Studio Installer Projects Extension now available in preview

Many customers asked Microsoft to bring back support for Visual Studio Installer projects, and so on April 17, Visual Studio Installer Projects Extension was announced, writes Tony Goodhew, Visual Studio Platform Team program manager.

April 18, 2014

Microsoft Azure now in public preview in Brazil South region

With the public preview, customers in the region will experience better performance through reduced latency, and have the option to maintain three copies of their data in country through Locally Redundant Storage.

April 18, 2014

Weekend Reading: April 18th Edition — Converting big data to ambient intelligence

In this edition of Weekend Reading, we’ve got stories on creating a data culture, an Internet of Things service built on Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Research’s Silicon Valley TechFair.

April 18, 2014

Windows Store sale includes ‘Chuggington Puzzle Stations,’ ‘Success Story!’ and glƏƏk!

Six new Red Stripe Deals means savings of at least 50 percent on apps like glƏƏk! and games such as “Success Story!” and “Chuggington Puzzle Stations.”

April 17, 2014

NPD numbers: ‘Titanfall’ for Xbox One was No. 1 selling game in March

In a blog post Thursday, Yusuf Mehdi, Xbox corporate vice president of marketing, strategy and business, wrote that more than 5 million Xbox One consoles have been shipped to retailers since the console’s launch on Nov. 22, 2013, with fans spending an average of five hours a day on Xbox One.

April 17, 2014

Silicon Valley TechFair reveals Microsoft Research’s inner workings

Thursday, the Microsoft Research Silicon Valley lab hosts the Silicon Valley TechFair, an open-door event for customers, academia, and partners to learn more about the inner workings of Microsoft Research.

April 17, 2014

Get crackin’! Win an Xbox One and Surface Pro 2 in the Great Skype Easter Egg Hunt

The Easter Bunny has visited Skype’s social profiles and hidden five “eggmoticons,” eggs with cute faces. They’re scattered around Skype’s Facebook, @Skype Twitter, @SkypeMoments Twitter, Instagram and YouTube pages. For a chance to win prizes, you need to find all five eggmoticons on those social channels.