Recent News

March 17, 2014
New Office Lens app is a portable OneNote scanner

The new Office Lens app gives you a scanner in your pocket (or purse), making it easy to preserve meeting notes, handwritten to-do lists, sticky notes, business cards and receipts. The free Microsoft app uses the Windows Phone camera to capture and enhance pictures, then automatically syncs them to OneNote so you can get to them from any device.

March 17, 2014
Broadband-ready 64GB Surface 2 (AT&T 4G LTE) goes on sale Tuesday

Beginning Tuesday, March 18, customers can purchase Surface 2 (AT&T 4G LTE), a 64GB mobile broadband-ready device, for $679 (estimated retail price) in the U.S. at Microsoft retail stores, www.MicrosoftStore.com, and BestBuy.com and all Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile stores.

March 14, 2014
Window shoppers get the Midas touch through Kinect for Windows and Gold Jay Z

The 7-foot, 4K (4,000 pixel) display, the creation of advertising agency kbs+ and interactive design firm Future Colossal, used the Kinect for Windows sensor to detect onlookers. Then it captured a 3D image of the shopper, which emerged from a pool of gold. This golden avatar also followed the window shopper’s movements.

March 14, 2014
Developers: How to build apps that connect with People and Calendar

On the Windows App Builder Blog, developers can take a walk-through of how an app can work with a person’s calendar. In Windows 8.1, new app-to-app contracts were introduced that let users easily interact with people in their address books and integrate events into their calendars.

March 14, 2014
Microsoft Exchange Conference March 31-April 2 will cover Office Graph, Office 365, encryption and more

The conference will delve into email-related aspects of news announced recently about Office Graph and the social workplace. There will also be dozens of sessions for customers using Office 365, including encryption in Exchange, reporting on Office 365 mail flow and mailbox data, eDiscovery and organizational search in Exchange, and developing apps for Outlook, Exchange Online and Office 365.

March 14, 2014
Watch full episodes of USA Now, Telemundo Now and Syfy Now shows on Windows Phone

When you’re on the go and you really want to catch up with your shows on some of the biggest cable networks, you can. NBC Universal delivers a trio of free apps filled with some of your favorite programs to your Windows Phone device, PC or tablet. Everyone gets free basic content, and for more expansive features, you can login with your TV subscriber credentials.