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December 10, 2013

LeWeb’13 and ‘The Next 10 Years’: The digitization of nearly everything

Attending the LeWeb’13 event in Paris, Cloud and Enterprise Executive Vice President Satya Nadella shares his thoughts on how new ideas and work from startups are shaping the future.

December 10, 2013

It’s about time: ‘Quantum Break’ debuts new trailer at VGX 2013

Microsoft and Remedy Entertainment revealed a new trailer for Xbox One exclusive “Quantum Break” at VGX 2013, the next generation of Spike TV’s annual Video Game Awards. The trailer, available at Xbox Wire, gives fans a look at one of the most anticipated blockbusters of 2014.

December 10, 2013

Artists, designers find a creative canvas in Surface Pro 2

There’s more to the Surface than meets the eye, unless it’s the artist’s eye. Many artists and designers recently gave Surface props for what it can do, especially with the Wacom-enabled, pressure-sensing pen that comes with the Surface Pro 2.

December 10, 2013

BlueHat v13 will educate developers, execs about current and emerging security threats

This year’s BlueHat will start with a focus “on the threat landscape, learning about determined adversaries to help us defend our own network and assets, and tools to detect and mitigate attacks,” writes Katie Moussouris, senior security strategist for the Microsoft Security Response Center, on the BlueHat Blog.

December 10, 2013

‘Thief’ steps out of the shadows in ‘Channeling the Primal’ trailer

In the new trailer for the “Thief” game, players get a glimpse of what turns Garrett, the protagonist, into the reluctant hero the city needs as it descends into fear and oppression.

December 9, 2013

Lara Croft is back in ‘Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition’

Reborn and rebuilt for the post-Angelina Jolie generation on Xbox One, the “Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition” prequel takes players back to Lara Croft’s first adventure, where she shows off archery skills that rival that of Katniss Everdeen’s, to try to survive her first adventure on a dangerous island.

December 9, 2013

Christmas Eve: Watch for Santa and for Xbox One release of ‘Halo: Spartan Assault’

The same day that Santa Claus will be working his way down chimneys, Dec. 24, a new version of “Halo: Spartan Assault” comes to Xbox One via a digital download priced at $14.99, Xbox Wire reports. Even better, fans who bought “Halo: Spartan Assault” for Windows 8 devices or Windows Phone 8 before Dec. 15 have a gift in store – they’ll be eligible to purchase the Xbox One version of the game at the discounted price of $4.99.

December 9, 2013

New business apps for Windows 8.1 boost productivity, security

Some of the apps are about workplace collaboration; others about sharing a cloud-based educational curriculum, and there are many, many more for Windows 8.1, all of them enterprise grade, writes Sanket Akerkar, vice president, Developer and Platform Evangelism group.

December 9, 2013

Hideo Kojima talks Kiefer Sutherland, ‘Metal Gear Solid V’ for Xbox One

Kiefer Sutherland will join the “Metal Gear” franchise to help “raise the bar” when it comes to bringing even more expressiveness in voice and facial performance to “match the capabilities of the hardware,” Hideo Kojima, legendary creator of the “Metal Gear Solid” franchise, tells Xbox Wire in this exclusive interview.

December 9, 2013

iSwarm app for Windows Phone: A single dashboard for all your social networks

iSwarm is a new app exclusively on Windows Phone that lets you search and browse content from all your social networks within one dashboard. Create a “watchlist” for a topic, and the app will aggregate posts from Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and YouTube into a single feed.