Recent News

June 21, 2013
E! Online entertainment news app debuts on Windows Phone

New today in the Windows Phone Store, the E! Online app for Windows Phone 8 delivers a daily dose of celebrity news and photos, plus clips from popular E! shows including “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” “The Soup” and “E! News.”

June 21, 2013
Skype reconnects refugee families over distance and time

Skype harnesses the power of communication and technology to connect people every day. But for some organizations, it’s a lifeline for reuniting families torn apart and displaced by war and other life-threatening conflicts.

June 21, 2013
Introducing Hyper-V support in Windows 8

Virtual Machines (VMs) are great for a wide variety of tasks, including running different operating systems or software configurations on a single machine. Windows 8 brings new VM capabilities to the client side as the first Windows client operating system to include hardware virtualization support without requiring separate downloads or installs.

June 20, 2013
The weather report is in: The future of the cloud is sunny

According to the 2013 North Bridge and GigaOM Research Future of Cloud Computing Survey, cloud adoption is taking off because businesses are seeing the full power of what the cloud can do – from achieving superior TCO to enabling agility, scaling the business quickly and driving innovation.

June 20, 2013
Updated Windows Phone Toolkit now available

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
Engineers: The fix is in on HttpClient and automatic decompression

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
This ain’t no Energizer Bunny we’re talking about here!

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.