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November 1, 2013
‘UNO & Friends’ arrives in the Windows Store

“UNO & Friends” is available in the Windows Store and gives you a chance to play with your friends – wherever they are in the world. You can also make new friends in this online global community of fans as you throw down in the middle of this all-new multiplayer experience.

November 1, 2013
Microsoft’s largest scale education agreement will help boost skills for 4 million students in Sao Paulo state network

On Thursday, Microsoft announced an agreement with the Sao Paolo State Department of Education (SEE) to offer Office 365 free of charge to more than 4 million students from the state education network through the Student Advantage program. This joint initiative with the SEE represents an investment of almost $900 million, based on the individual subscription costs for Office 365.

November 1, 2013
Window Server for Embedded Systems now available to take on the most critical challenges

“We think this is going to become the product for purpose-built, next-generation, enterprise class server appliances,” said Partha Srinivasan, product manager, Windows Embedded Server and SQL Products in a post on the Windows Embedded Blog. “With this edition, enterprises and OEMs [original equipment manufacturers] now have a lot more capabilities and a host of improvements they can leverage to enhance performance, save space and ensure nearly constant uptime.”

November 1, 2013
Giving Heroes: Suit up and power youth causes!

Throughout Microsoft’s giving campaign, we asked our employees to share the nonprofit organizations that inspired them. Then we worked with artists to create interpretations of these Giving Heroes. Each day this month, we’ll post one of the creations to the Microsoft Facebook page.

November 1, 2013
Visual Studio 2013 editor enhancements include time-saving ‘Peek’ view

In Visual Studio 2013 Preview, “we introduced an amazing new feature called ‘Peek Definition (Alt + F12)’ that allowed you to browse definitions of symbols inline in the Editor keeping your context and place in code,” write program managers Ala Shiban and Murali Krishna Hosabettu Kamalesha, on the Visual Studio Blog.

November 1, 2013
A closer look at the two-position kickstand in Surface 2

The Surface team on Wednesday shared a look at perhaps one of the most iconic features of Surface – the kickstand. It’s part of what makes Surface so versatile, and even more so with the new two-position kickstand in Surface 2.