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June 16, 2014
Designers and developers: Find out how an app can adapt to a user’s location

Sometimes an app’s user’s preferred language and settings don’t reflect where they are located, writes Gilles Peigné, program manager for Developer Ecosystem & Platform on the Windows Apps Team. They travel or regularly conduct international business, and while they want the apps to appear in their preferred language, they want the content to be relevant to their immediate surroundings.

June 16, 2014
Lync Room System update introduces new Room PC View

This optional feature is a button on the console that controls the display of the in-room PC screen share. If you want the screen share to display in the room, you can turn the button on; if you want to keep the screen share from displaying, turn the button off.

June 16, 2014
Forza Football among favorite new Windows Phone apps

Every Sunday, the Conversations blog lists its five favorite new Windows Phone apps and the latest set includes Forza Football, which supplies live score updates and video highlights from more than 400 international leagues and cups – including the current soccer extravaganza in progress in Brazil.

June 16, 2014
Indian smartphone manufacturer Micromax reveals its first Windows Phone devices

The Canvas Win W121 is a 5-inch device with an HD IPS display, which comes with an 8 megapixel rear camera (with LED flash) and a 2 megapixel front-facing camera. The Canvas Win W092 is a 4-inch device with an IPS WVGA display, which comes with a 5-megapixel rear camera (with LED flash¬) and a 0.3 megapixel front-facing camera.

June 16, 2014
New Microsoft Azure Machine Learning makes machine learning more accessible to everyone

Azure ML, which previews next month, “will bring together the capabilities of new analytics tools, powerful algorithms developed for Microsoft products like Xbox and Bing, and years of machine learning experience into one simple and easy-to-use cloud service,” Joseph Sirosh writes. “For customers, this means virtually none of the startup costs associated with authoring, developing and scaling machine learning solutions.”