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March 3, 2014
Fresh Paint a Day

For an artist living in the seaside city of Brighton, England, space to store huge paintings can be hard to come by. Lucky for Natasha Nicole, creator of Fresh Paint A Day, she discovered the Windows Fresh Paint app, which gave her an artistic outlet close to the texture of real paint.

March 3, 2014
SharePoint Server 2013 Service Pack 1 helps move to the cloud

As Office Blogs reports, SP1 includes performance, reliability and security improvements. It’s going to be easier for SharePoint 2013 on-premises customers to use OneDrive for Business in the cloud alongside their existing SharePoint deployment. Also, customers can replace the out-of-the-box SharePoint 2013 social experience (Newsfeed) with Yammer.

March 3, 2014
New Microsoft retail store opens at Westfarms mall in Connecticut

On March 1, Microsoft opened the doors to its 53rd full-line retail store at Westfarms in West Hartford, Conn. That morning, Microsoft welcomed more than 1,312 customers, partners, community organizations and onlookers who lined up to celebrate the opening of the newest store.

March 3, 2014
Trek builds one-stop shop for managing retailer relationships with Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Trek Bicycle recently adopted Microsoft Dynamics CRM to bring all of its customer information into one place, standardize workflows, and make it quicker and easier for its employees to find vital information. In addition, the company also deployed a hybrid solution of SharePoint 2013 on premises and SharePoint Online with Office 365 to bolster the team’s collaboration and enterprise social activity.