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March 27, 2014
Satya Nadella: The cloud and mobile can be first at the same time

In a Thursday blog post on The Official Microsoft Blog, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella explains how, in the new “mobile-first cloud-first world,” cloud and mobile are two facets of one thing. “The cloud was created to enable mobility. And mobile devices are really uninteresting without the cloud,” he writes. “That’s why I talk about them together. Mobile without cloud is limiting. The cloud without mobile is mostly latent potential. But the place where they meet is magic.”

March 27, 2014
Office arrives on the iPad

Starting Thursday, you can download Word, Excel and PowerPoint for iPad from the App Store. The apps have the robust capabilities and familiar experience that is unmistakably Office, while offering a touch experience built from the ground up for iPad.

March 27, 2014
Microsoft unveils the Enterprise Mobility Suite

In a blog post Thursday, Brad Anderson, corporate vice president of Cloud and Enterprise, focused on the three key elements of the suite: Identity and access management delivered by Azure Active Directory Premium, mobile device management (MDM) and mobile application management (MAM) delivered by Windows Intune, and data protection delivered by Azure AD Rights Management Services.

March 27, 2014
Azure Active Directory Premium identity and access management service available in April

Amongst the big announcements coming out of San Francisco Thursday is that the Azure Active Directory (AD) Premium identity and access management service will be available in April. Azure AD provides a rich standards-based platform that enables developers to deliver authentication and access control to their applications, based on centralized policy and rules.

March 27, 2014
Microsoft sponsors We Day Seattle and We Day California 2014

Over the past week, Microsoft participated in two days of inspiring events in two cities — We Day Seattle and We Day California. This is part of the company’s three-year commitment to sponsor Free The Children’s signature We Day event and the We Act yearlong in-school community service program in Washington and California.

March 27, 2014
Discover electro-pop duo Cherub via the ‘Ones To Watch’ with Skype tour

Discovering a band in an intimate venue before they hit the big time is an extra special experience for music fans. Now, in partnership with Live Nation, Skype is offering concert-goers an opportunity to check out the latest up-and-coming artists and be the first to discover the “Ones To Watch.”