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June 27, 2013

How the public sector can “flip the switch” to reduce waste, get energy efficient, and save money. These strategies can not only reduce your energy expenditures but also potentially reduce your long-term operating expenses on buildings, transportation infrastructure, and IT equipment — three big areas where the savings keep piling up.

June 27, 2013

On June 26, Telefónica announced an arrangement that puts additional marketing muscle behind Windows Phone 8 devices in the U.K., Germany, Spain, Mexico, Brazil and Chile. The enhanced marketing effort, in cooperation with Microsoft, aims to boost sales of Windows Phone 8 devices and offer a strong alternative for customers.

June 27, 2013

At Day Two of the Build 2013 conference in San Francisco, Microsoft showed the thousands of developers in attendance (and thousands more online) the opportunity for creating new apps and services on the Windows platform.

June 27, 2013

“Look out – it’s an appalanche!” quipped Windows Phone blogger Michael Stroh about the five major apps that launched in the Windows Phone Store this morning. Here’s a look at all five new apps.

June 27, 2013

As we announced last week, Microsoft is now offering $100,000 bounties for new exploitation techniques that can bypass our latest platform-wide defenses and up to $50,000 bonus bounties for defense ideas. We’re also offering (from now until July 26) bounties of up to $11,000 for critical security issues in Internet Explorer 11 Preview.

June 27, 2013

Windows Phone 8 customers are now downloading more than 200 million apps per month, and daily app revenue has more than doubled. Microsoft also announced on Wednesday that shipments of Windows Phone grew six times faster than the rest of the smartphone market over the past year. On Wednesday, the Windows Phone Developer team offered another reason to start building Windows Phone apps: the “$19 Summer Break” offer, which offers a steep discount on the usual developer registration fee.

June 27, 2013

The world got an exciting preview of Windows 8.1 from Microsoft’s Build conference yesterday, where execs showcased new opportunities for developers as well as consumers. Today at Build, Microsoft Advertising released a new Windows 8.1 Ad SDK that will help marketers get more mileage out of Windows 8’s in-app advertising offerings.

June 27, 2013

Following on the heels of Build 2013’s Wednesday release of the Windows 8.1 Preview, Steve Guggenheimer, corporate vice president and chief evangelist for Developer Platform Evangelism, on the second day of the conference announced the availability of the Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry Release Preview. This extends Windows 8.1 capabilities and provides more flexibility to meet the needs of industry devices.

June 27, 2013

Microsoft programmer Scott Hanselman is one of the many who downloaded the Windows 8.1 Preview Wednesday after the announcement of its release at Build 2013. He gave it a spin and found “10 New Features in Windows 8.1 Preview that saved my Surface RT.”

June 27, 2013

“Magic: The Gathering,” the world’s premier trading card game, is back on Xbox 360 with “Magic 2014 — Duels of the Planeswalkers.” Available to purchase now from the Xbox Live Marketplace for 800 Microsoft Points, “Magic 2014” features an epic storyline, many modes, and brand-new gameplay mechanics that can be used to devise even more cunning strategies.