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June 18, 2014

New sample code helps companies integrate Yammer with Salesforce.com

With this solution, companies can work like a network to track the progress of accounts, opportunities, leads and campaigns within Salesforce and collaborate with coworkers from any department using Yammer.

June 18, 2014

Conclusion of three-part Microsoft Dynamics AX series looks at what’s next with contractor compliance and agility

In the last of a three-part series, Elliott Ichimura, Microsoft Global Industry Director, Services, explains how the Microsoft GovCon Alliance will apply a new level of rigor to the company’s engagement in the government contractor market, “across our products, partner relationships and customer audiences.”

June 18, 2014

2014 Microsoft Life Sciences Innovation Award winners announced

The awards were presented Tuesday at the Drug Information Association’s (DIA) 50th annual meeting in San Diego. They emphasize the achievements of life sciences companies that have streamlined processes to help speed therapeutic breakthroughs for serious health ailments using Microsoft products and technologies.

June 18, 2014

Tips to have a successful experience at the Worldwide Partner Conference

From her past experience at the Worldwide Partner Conference, Kris Fuehr, partner community manager at Microsoft, took away tips that she wants to pass along to incoming participants.

June 18, 2014

With ‘Disney Fantasia: Music Evolved,’ you’ll be getting your tunes up on YouTube

Harmonix, known for the get-you-moving “Rock Band” and “Dance Central,” is making a different kind of move with “Disney Fantasia: Music Evolved,” which is powered by Xbox One’s Kinect 2.0 technology.

June 18, 2014

Anime fans: New ‘Gargantia: Sky Courier’ shows off the modern Web using IE

Internet Explorer, together with Japanese anime studio Production I.G, launched “Gargantia: Sky Courier” Tuesday. It’s a brand new game experience that’s “fast, beautiful and perfect for touch with the modern Web,” writes Justin Garrett, IE group product manager, in a blog post.

June 18, 2014

LA County moves 100,000 employees, 30 departments, to Office 365

“Office 365 will allow our mobile workforce, like our social workers, district attorneys, assessors, field investigators, animal control and coroners, to be more mobile,” said Peter Loo, the county’s chief deputy chief information officer.

June 18, 2014

June Xbox Development Kit includes more access to additional GPU bandwidth

Before, 10 percent of the GPU “was reserved for system level processing which included Kinect-related skeletal tracking data,” says Kareem Choudhry. “With this change, titles that are not using skeletal tracking with Kinect can choose to use that portion of the system reserve for other purposes. We have also optimized the entire system so that titles have access to 100 percent of the Xbox One GPU for increased resolution and graphical effects.”

June 18, 2014

Microsoft partners with prime[31] to bring you Unity plug-ins free for a year

Now through June 2015, you will be able to get Windows Phone and Windows Store Unity plug-ins for free from prime[31], one of the most popular providers of plug-ins for the Stores. The plug-ins make it easier for you to implement in app-purchases, use Live Tiles, monetize via ads and connect to Azure storage.

June 18, 2014

The County of Los Angeles moves to the cloud with Microsoft