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September 29, 2014

Besides more than 10 speaking sessions, there will be an all-new hands-on space in Times Center: “The Garage.” There, attendees can check out Ability Eye Gaze, which uses Surface 3, Kinect and other Microsoft technologies to enable people confined to a wheelchair to be independent.

September 29, 2014

Accessorizing your assassin isn’t new to the “Assassin’s Creed” series, but cloaking your killer in gear that makes him look good – while simultaneously improving his abilities – is a new feature in “Assassin’s Creed Unity,” coming Nov. 11 for Xbox One.

September 29, 2014

“Forza Horizon 2” launches Tuesday, Sept. 30, and there’s lots of action off road for those who want some extra goodies. On Tuesday, at Microsoft retail stores in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico, at least the first 25 customers to pick up their copy of the game will receive a “Forza Horizon 2” gift bag.

September 29, 2014

A year after the announcement of a partnership between Microsoft and Oracle, customers are running Oracle solutions on Azure that account for millions of hours per month. Oracle customers are able to run their enterprise applications in a globally available cloud platform and get the economic and agility benefits that come with it.

September 29, 2014

In “Assassin’s Creed Rogue,” coming Nov. 11 for Xbox 360, players are put behind assassin-turned-Templar antihero Shay Patrick Cormac. That will mean “plenty of new tools and toys to the series’ already-ample arsenal,” according to Xbox Wire.

September 29, 2014

A new, interactive platform, the Microsoft Prediction Lab, has launched as a website-based showcase and laboratory for the ongoing work of David Rothschild, a Microsoft researcher and leading expert in a new kind of data-driven predictive methodology.

September 29, 2014

Microsoft will open a flagship location in New York City that will serve as the “centerpiece of our Microsoft Stores experience,” David Porter, Corporate Vice President, Retail Stores, announced Monday.

September 29, 2014

App developers for Windows and Windows Phone take advantage of the opportunity to publish to multiple countries, so it’s important for them to be able to analyze performance by market. Now they can, through the World Map in pubCenter.

September 29, 2014

At the Sibos conference in Boston that begins Monday, Microsoft customers and partners are showcasing new technology to help financial institutions become digital banks. As Karen Cone, general manager of Worldwide Financial Services for Microsoft, writes on The Official Microsoft Blog, this includes new Windows 8 apps, demonstrations on how the cloud can help banks do business in underserved and emerging markets, and a new partnership with the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis center to help banks fight cybercrime.