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March 18, 2014

SQL Server 2014 released to manufacturers, will be generally available April 1

SQL Server 2014 helps customers create new business value and open up new possibilities and opportunities with data. It is an important component of Microsoft’s overall cloud-first data platform. The platform delivers breakthrough performance, accelerated insights through tools everyone uses and the ability to scale globally on-premises and in the cloud – giving the company’s customers the most from their data.

March 18, 2014

Xbox One coming to 26 more countries in September

Xbox One will be available in these countries this fall: Argentina, Belgium, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, India, Israel, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the UAE.

March 18, 2014

Staff App Pick: Save small businesses and yourself a few bucks with Dwolla for Windows 8

Each week, we bring you a new app recommendation from one of our colleagues. This week’s Tuesday Staff App Pick comes from Chris Bernard, a startup partner business evangelist with Microsoft.

March 18, 2014

Friends’ notifications, game save progress bar and more will be added to Xbox One in April

The next wave of features for Xbox One will be available in April, and will include notifications so you can see when friends and favorites sign into Xbox Live, a game save progress bar, Kinect voice and motion improvements and improved GameDVR quality.

March 18, 2014

Stop Dr. Doom and other villains in ‘Avengers Alliance’ – now on Windows Phone

As a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, it’s your mission in “Avengers Alliance” to team up with other Marvel super heroes and take down Dr. Doom, Loki and other super villains before they can harness the power of ISO-8.

March 18, 2014

Free ‘Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare’ Garden Variety pack now available

There’s lots of new content planted in this pack, including the Gnome Bomb game mode, Chomp Town map, dozens of abilities and more than 100 character customizations items.

March 18, 2014

New Wireless Mobile Mouse 1850, geared for travel, is $14.95

The Wireless Mobile Mouse 1850 was announced Tuesday, a super lightweight mouse designed for those who are on the go, and designed to feel good in the hands of both righties and lefties.

March 18, 2014

Microsoft’s Leslie Lamport wins the Turing Award, the ‘Nobel Prize in Computing’

Leslie Lamport, a principal researcher with Microsoft Research, has been awarded the 2013 Association for Computing Machinery A.M. Turing Award, for “imposing clear, well-defined coherence on the seemingly chaotic behavior of distributed computing systems, in which several autonomous computers communicate with each other by passing messages,” according to the ACM press release.

March 17, 2014

Musician Frank Bell talks the future of music, and Skype’s role, in TED talk on March 19

Bell will share his ideas about the future of music, creativity and worldwide collaboration in his TED talk. That collaboration includes his vision of a “Skype wall in my studio – with people all around the world collaborating and creating music.”

March 17, 2014

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