Recent News

June 25, 2013

Foodies in your life who have a Windows Phone 8 or 7.5 will probably appreciate the latest update of the Epicurious.com mobile app. Peruse more than 30,000 professionally created recipes from Bon Appetit, Gourmet, SELF, and renowned chefs and cookbooks. In this release, you can pin your favorite recipes to the home screen for easy access, use voice commands to control the app and find new recipes, and also find support for Windows 8 live tiles that will display a photo of the recipe of the day.

June 25, 2013

Meeting with people while on the go? Check out some of the useful new features in the Lync app now available in the Windows Store. New and updated features include a new Meetings screen, snapped view, take over as presenter, improved high-contrast support, and the ability to join meetings anonymously if you don’t have a Lync account.

June 25, 2013

Enterprise social network Yammer has grown to nearly 8 million registered users since it was acquired by Microsoft one year ago today, Yammer co-founder and exec David Sacks said in a blog post this morning.

June 25, 2013

A recent anti-malware platform update has introduced network real-time inspection (NRI) to behavior monitoring (BM), which has been pivotal in finding new threats through telemetry and sample collection processes.

June 25, 2013

Cable favorites Discovery Channel, TLC and Animal Planet each have their own new app in the Windows Phone Store today. The suite of new apps from parent company Discovery feature full episodes and clips from shows like “Deadliest Catch” (Discovery Channel), “Cake Boss” (TLC) and “Finding Bigfoot” (Animal Planet).

June 25, 2013

At TechEd Europe today, Brad Anderson shared several major developments that will have major impact on the cloud-first landscape, including the availability of Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2 previews.

June 25, 2013

Microsoft announces the creation of Microsoft Ventures, a coordinated global effort that offers the tools, resources, expertise and routes to market by providing mentorship, technology guidance, seed funding, joint selling opportunities and other benefits.

June 25, 2013

At TechEd Europe, Microsoft announces the availability of the first public Community Technology Preview (CTP) of SQL Server 2014. This public CTP enables users to try and test many of the capabilities of the SQL Server 2014 release.

June 25, 2013

Introduced at E3, “Project Spark” is an open-world canvas that enables anyone to build, play, and share whatever they can imagine. Powerful yet simple, it gives users a way to build and play their own worlds, stories and games, and then share their creations with a dynamic community.

June 25, 2013

Today at TechEd Europe, Microsoft announced availability of the System Center 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2012 R2 previews.  Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2 provide a wealth of new advancements to help IT organizations build and deliver private and hybrid cloud infrastructure for their businesses.