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October 24, 2013

App of the Week: Get the new ‘Walking Dead’ companion app exclusively for Windows 8

The intense new season of AMC’s ‘Walking Dead’ is in full swing, and Windows 8 users can now get more out of the show thanks to a new companion app. The AMC Story Sync app features interactive trivia, polls and exclusive video, and is available exclusively on Windows 8.

October 24, 2013

New ad platform SDKs now available to improve monetization for Windows 8.1 developers

On Wednesday, Steve Guggenheimer, corporate vice president of Developer and Platform Evangelism at Microsoft, published a post over on the Windows App Builder Blog that goes into great detail about the new Windows platform advertising capabilities, which he believes will deliver better app monetization.

October 24, 2013

Test out some Xbox One games, and visit with Xbox’s ‘Major Nelson’

Larry Hryb, Xbox LIVE’s director of programming, aka “Major Nelson,” is on the road to promote Xbox One. He was in Orlando, Fla. Wednesday, and is headed to Atlanta on Friday, then on to Edmonton, Alberta.

October 23, 2013

5 Skype features business users may not know about

Many of us use Skype to make calls to family members and friends, but it’s also an impressive tool in the workplace. Did you know, for example, you can use Skype to talk with up to 25 other people on one call as long as everyone is on Skype? You can – and it’s free. That’s just one of the tips shared by Blake Shepard on Skype’s Workplace Blog.

October 23, 2013

Want your cloud to rain money? New, free financial tool helps businesses maximize return on investment

Now that the cloud is becoming commonplace for many enterprises and service providers, attention is naturally turning to how to manage clouds from a cost perspective. Fortunately, financial management has been top-of-mind at Cloud Cruiser for some time, and on Wednesday Microsoft shared that the Cloud Cruiser Express financial management solution is now included at no cost with Windows Azure Pack.

October 23, 2013

Apples and oranges

Post from Abu Dhabi by Frank Shaw, corporate vice president of Communications at Microsoft.

October 23, 2013

Find out how safe your data is in Office 365

In this week’s Garage Series show, hosts Jeremy Chapman and Vijay Kumar tackle one of the most common questions asked about cloud services, “How safe is my data?”

October 23, 2013

Tweets from Last Night: Pitbull rocks grand opening of Microsoft Store in Orlando’s Mall at Millenia

As part of the grand opening, Microsoft invited customers to attend an exclusive concert by Mr. Worldwide, Pitbull. One hundred lucky customers were also treated to an intimate meet and greet with the hit recording artist before the concert.

October 23, 2013

Check out some of what’s new in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013, the cloud-based customer relationship management platform, delivers an array of advancements, from an improved way to merge existing form layouts to new ways to customize Bing Maps.

October 23, 2013

Mix of classics, exotics and American muscle cars unveiled in ‘Forza Motorsport 5 Showroom’

Wanna go fast? The Hennessey Venom will show you acceleration like you’ve never seen. Wanna drag? The Chevy Nova SS will burn rubber. And if you long to build the ultimate drift machine, the ever-reliable Nissan 240 SX is now confirmed.