Recent News

July 25, 2013

After noticing how many customers shared external links for discussion amongst their workplace networks, the folks at Yammer took action and built a new feature to make it easier to share and talk about these Web pages.

July 25, 2013

The Internet Explorer team wants to help developers spend more time innovating and less time testing. With that in mind, along with today’s release of the Internet Explorer 11 Developer Preview for Windows 7, the team also updated modern.IE – a set of tools and resources that make developing for the web (and IE) just a little bit easier.

July 24, 2013

Have you ever wondered how those miscommunications and crossed wires that Hollywood screenwriters so love could be quashed if the main characters just used Skype? Stephanie Larson has, and in a particularly entertaining edition of Play Blog today, she writes about 10 blockbuster movies in which “happily ever after” coulda, woulda and shoulda been just a Skype call away.

July 24, 2013

Though MSBuild has shipped as a component of the .NET framework since 2005, it has always been primarily a development tool most often used by Visual Studio developers. Now, it will ship as part of Visual Studio 2013 so the team can “more rapidly evolve MSBuild,” according to the Visual Studio Blog.

July 24, 2013

When the time came for Ava Van to take her long-anticipated, two-month volunteer trip to Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, the aspiring TV reporter did extensive research and decided that Microsoft Surface would be the device to make the trip with her. A post on the Surface Blog today details her adventure.

July 24, 2013

The back-to-school countdown is about to begin. Take a look at our slideshow of cool devices and tools that will help your students and family stay connected and on track throughout the school year. You’ll find PCs, smart phones, tablets, other hardware and more to keep your student on the right track wherever they go.

July 24, 2013

Earlier this month at the Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston, Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise Executive Vice President Satya Nadella announced a new Premium service for Windows Azure SQL Database that will bring flexibility and choice across on-premises and the cloud for business-class applications. Today, the preview for that service went live.

July 24, 2013

Back-to-school time isn’t just about buying glue anymore. It’s a season of rebooting, starting fresh and getting back to business for all of us. What better time then, to get a new PC?

July 24, 2013

Now, active Yammer users can simply mention pending users in their posts, and they’ll receive an email with the contents of the message and an invitation to join Yammer.

July 24, 2013

Microsoft understands that users will build applications on open source operating systems. With the “2012 R2 wave,” IT Pros can have it all. That’s because the R2 wave was built with an open source environment top of mind, and will deliver a suite of products that are more adaptable and more powerful than ever.