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July 1, 2014

Staff App Pick: Find out if you’re a good fit for that dream job with the Good.Co app for Windows

The hiring manager seems to like you and the team looks passionate and driven. But how do you know you’ll fit in with the corporate and team culture? The Good.Co app for Windows may be able to help you figure out that very question.

July 1, 2014

Major security milestones announced: More protection for Outlook.com, OneDrive and the opening of the first Microsoft Transparency Center

Outlook.com is now further protected by Transport Layer Security, or TLS, encryption for both outbound and inbound email. In addition to the availability of TLS, Outlook.com has also enabled Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) encryption support for sending and receiving mail between email providers.

July 1, 2014

Surface Pro, Xbox help Washington man overcome life-changing injury

Tyler Schrenk likes to engage in all of the typical activities of a modern digital citizen. He checks his email, follows his favorite sports teams, reads the newspaper and looks at the weather. Accomplishing these tasks online became difficult, if not impossible, following a life-changing injury Schrenk, 29, experienced two years ago.

July 1, 2014

Microsoft adds new Outlook.com and OneDrive encryption to thwart government snooping

July 1, 2014

Fans of film photography can simulate retro shots using their Lumia devices

KP Wilkman does all his professional work with digital equipment, but he also has been shooting film for the past 15 years, so he’s got some basic steps on giving retro treatments to images taken with Lumia smartphones.

June 30, 2014

He’s paid to play in a digital sandbox: Behind-the-scenes with Microsoft’s Costas Syrmos

As head of The Lab (Microsoft Mobile) in London, Costas Syrmos experiments with the right mix of technology, art and Microsoft know-how to create inspiring projects – such as the recent “Arc of Wonder” project. It harnessed the power of 50 Lumia 1020 smartphones to capture 30,000 photos across Manhattan.

June 30, 2014

Favorite new Windows Phone apps include Levitagram, perfect for aspiring photo magicians

With Levitagram, magic is built into the app, which deletes the object holding up your would-be floater and makes it seem like it’s levitating on its own. As Anna Kurkijärvi writes on the blog, “Sure, it’s a gimmick, but it’s a pretty funny one.”

June 30, 2014

These are the ‘Battle Droids’ you’re looking for and they’re among the best new indie games for Windows Phone

A growing community of independent developers continue to add to the apps available in the Windows and Windows Phone Store every month. The Indie Game Spotlight Collection collects some of those standouts, and the Windows Phone Blog shines the spotlight on 10 favorites for June, including “Battle Droids.”

June 30, 2014

You can be one of the ‘2014 Fantastic People of Worldwide Partner Conference’

The Worldwide Partner Conference, July 13-17 in Washington, D.C., is filled with lots of vital sessions, but it’s also the people we meet there that we remember as well. As in years past, Eric Ligman, Microsoft’s senior sales excellence manager, will be putting together a “Fantastic People of WPC” online page after the conference is over, and you can be a part of it.

June 30, 2014

Take a 360-degree look around from the top of this Norwegian mountain range with Bing

Monday’s Bing home page takes you more than 5,200 feet above the clouds, where you pan to a 360-degree view of the Sunnmøre Alps, found on both sides of the fjord known as Hjørundfjorden, on Norway’s west coast.