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November 21, 2013

Canadian pharmacy giant, the Jean Coutu Group, chooses Microsoft Dynamics for Retail

The Canadian company will use Microsoft Dynamics in more than 400 stores, 3,000 point-of-sale systems and 11,500 devices, starting in 2014. The company employs more than 19,000 people.

November 21, 2013

Your Official Holiday Technology Wish List Cheat Sheet

We’ve culled some of the best new devices for the holidays, available today, into one handy location. Click through the slides for a tour of some great new 8-inch tablets, 10-inch detachables, convertibles and laptops, and even some whopping 20-inch all-in-ones.

November 21, 2013

App of the Week: Share life’s moments with Instagram for Windows Phone 8

Instagram, meet Windows Phone. Now, one of the fastest, most beautiful and fun ways to share photos with friends and family has been paired with some of the world’s best camera phones.

November 21, 2013

Game developers share how new Kinect is game-changing for them

The new Kinect sensor for Xbox One brings higher fidelity, sensitivity and precision whether the action is taking place on a battlefield or a dance floor. In a new video, game developers share how they’re using the new Kinect in some of Xbox One’s biggest launch titles, including “Forza Motorsport 5,” “Ryse: Son of Rome,” “Dead Rising 3” and “Just Dance 2014.”

November 21, 2013

Waze app for Windows Phone steers you in the right direction with crowd-sourced traffic

Sometimes, your best sources for the most up-to-date traffic and road reports can be other drivers ahead of you – and the free Waze app now available for Windows Phone 8 devices can deliver their advice exactly when you need it.

November 21, 2013

Video: Learn how to use Power BI in less than 20 minutes

Need to create an amazing-looking 3D display of your geographic data? Use Power BI’s Power Map feature.

November 21, 2013

Let us know what you think about Visual Studio 2013

Now that you’ve had a month to use Visual Studio 2013, the Visual Studio team would like to hear what you think about it and invites you to take the Visual Studio 2013 RTM survey.

November 21, 2013

Bing home page mesmerizes with video of lava from Hawaiian volcano pouring into the ocean

If campfire mesmerizes you, the Bing home page takes that fascination to the next level with a continuous video loop of lava pouring into the Pacific Ocean’s crashing waves, off the shores of Kalapana, Hawaii.

November 21, 2013

My SharePoint Sites app lets users jump quickly from site to site

An app called My SharePoint Sites adds quick navigation to all sites in a given SharePoint collection, and users can jump quickly from site to site from the suite bar, writes Dorrene Brown, a program manager on the Office Developer Platform team.

November 21, 2013

Developers: New XAML flexibility, DirectX improvements now in Windows 8.1

In Windows 8, the high-level user interface capabilities of XAML and the low-level rendering power of Direct X were combined within the same app. Now, even more improvements have been added to Windows 8.1, writes Jesse Bishop, Windows User Interface Platform senior program manager, on the Windows App Builder Blog.