Recent News

June 19, 2013

Attendees of TechEd Europe, which begins next week in Madrid, can start planning what keynotes, sessions, breakouts and highlights they’ll attend.

June 19, 2013

Chief Evangelist for Windows Steve Guggenheimer announced today seven popular new apps hitting the Windows Store this week, including music video app VEVO and social video mashup service Vyclone.

June 19, 2013

Disney Interactive launches app delivering new and original digital video to homes in the U.S. Featuring original Web series, classic animated shorts, clips from Disney shows and the latest Disney movie trailers, the new app lets users access the best Disney content from across the Web.

June 19, 2013

Microsoft Advertising is helping marketers better understand what motivates today’s multi-tasking and multi-device consumers after gathering consumers in San Francisco and London this spring to get their thoughts on advertising via “co-creation workshops.”

June 18, 2013

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has been recognized by STEMconnector as one of the top 100 “STEM CEOs.” STEMconnector helps its members design, implement and measure STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) strategies.

June 18, 2013

IT pros and developers now have another weapon in their arsenal to combat software vulnerabilities: a new version of our Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET 4.0).

June 18, 2013

Organizations of all sizes in the public sector are sometimes strapped for IT resources, and now, they can use solutions and add-ons based on the Microsoft Dynamics CRM platform to better manage tasks such as citizen services, FOIA requests, economic development, mapping, fleet management, etc.

June 18, 2013

Two big pieces of news out of Microsoft Research today. First, FUSE Labs, creator of Socl (pronounced “social”), released four new ways for people to express and share ideas on the Web. Also, BLINK, a project from Microsoft Research Redmond, released a pair of apps that blur the borders between video and photography.

June 18, 2013

Xbox has released some sneak preview screen shots of The Lost Relics, a new map pack for “Gears of War: Judgment” available today for VIP Season Pass holders (it will arrive on June 25 for all other game owners). The Lost Relics features four new multi-player maps, new weapons and armor skins, and a new mode called Breakthrough, which is a sort of capture-the-flag game where one team tries to move a flag while the other team tries to stop them.

June 18, 2013

A full week before anyone else, on July 25 Xbox Live community members will get an exclusive sneak peek of one of the most anticipated new TV shows of the summer: Hulu’s original animated comedy, “The Awesomes.” Created by Seth Meyers and Mike Shoemaker of “Saturday Night Live” fame, “The Awesomes” revolves around the desired revival of “America’s oldest superhero team.”