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June 20, 2013

Every week, the Windows Phone Store offers three popular apps for 50 percent or more off the regular price. Check out this week’s Red Stripe Deals.

June 20, 2013

The June 2013 update fixes top issues reported for the October 2012 release and adds localization support for all 51 countries or regions supported in Windows Phone 8.

June 20, 2013

You spoke, and the .NET engineering teams listened. Two weeks ago, Microsoft published a beta of HttpClient that provides support for automatic decompression. The team received a fair bit of feedback, particularly around the fact that it relies on a native implementation of compression that isn’t available on the same platforms as HttpClient. Today, it published another beta of HttpClient to address those concerns.

June 20, 2013

In many ways, batteries are commodity products that many consumers take for granted. That’s a mistake, according to Microsoft Director of Search Stefan Weitz, who reports there’s a wave of innovation occurring where batteries are concerned, a wave that could help solve some of the world’s most intractable energy consumption and management quandaries.

June 20, 2013

If you’re planning to attend Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in July, note that you’ll be able purchase a Surface device at a special discount price.

June 20, 2013

Risk meets Foursquare in a geosocial, mobile game called “QONQR” that has achieved success using Windows Phone as one of its platforms.

June 19, 2013

The Xbox team announced today that it’s making some big updates to Xbox One in response to feedback from customers. You can read more about the updates, which include connectivity requirements and licensing updates, in the post on Xbox Wire from IEB President Don Mattrick.

June 19, 2013

In the second of a six-part special “Garage Series for Office 365” on location from New Orleans, hosts Jeremy Chapman and Amanda Lefebvre give viewers a sneak peek at upcoming Office experiences on the Web across Windows, iOS and Android.

June 19, 2013

The new bounty program launching June 26 will offer up to $100,000 for identifying a “truly novel exploitation” built into the Windows 8.1 Preview and up to $11,000 for critical vulnerabilities that affect Internet Explorer 11 Preview on the latest version of Windows.

June 19, 2013

Microsoft announces patent licensing agreements with automotive technology companies Audiovox, Continental, Harman and LG Automotive for the use of its Extended File Allocation Table (exFAT) file system.