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June 5, 2014

OneNote on Surface Pro 3 with pen gives students a central place to collect research, notes, drawings

At Cincinnati Country Day School in Ohio, the first school in the U.S. to adopt Surface Pro 3 as its 1:1 student computing device, OneNote plays a key role in giving students a central place for compiling their research and notes, as well as their drawings using the Surface Pro 3 pen.

June 5, 2014

Find out about the future of Kinect

Companies such as Freak’n Genius, the Seattle-based company behind YAKit, have already had the chance to try the Kinect for Windows v2 sensor through its Developer Preview Program. “It’s so magical, honestly,” says Kyle Kesterson, Freak’n Genius founder. “We put people in front of it, and they light up without even having to do anything.”

June 5, 2014

Get the scoop on Major Nelson’s pre-E3 event at Los Angeles Microsoft Store

There are several ways you can follow what’s happening with Xbox at E3, but for those in the Los Angeles area, we’ve now got some more details about Major Nelson’s event at the Microsoft Store in Century City on Sunday, June 8, where access to the Xbox E3 media briefing on Monday, June 9, will be raffled off.

June 5, 2014

Unlock additional ‘Every Street United’ content with leading brands

Microsoft joins in the excitement leading up to the world’s premier soccer tournament through a new, interactive reality series called, “Every Street United.” Some of the world’s leading brands are providing soccer fans exclusive and unique “Every Street United” content.

June 5, 2014

Yum! Marmalade Software Development Kit 7.3 for Windows is free, has new features

Marmalade, a Windows platform middleware partner, has released a new and free version of its popular Software Development Kit (SDK) that lets developers deploy code across multiple platforms and devices from a single code base.

June 5, 2014

Survey shows that most small businesses feel the need to keep up with technology, but many have yet to adopt the cloud

Eighty-six percent of small businesses say keeping up with technology is important to their business, but 60 percent surveyed do not use cloud technologies. The survey, commissioned by Microsoft Corp. and conducted by Ipsos Public Affairs, also said 60 percent of these smaller businesses attribute increased revenue to technology, but 10 percent are not even familiar with the cloud.

June 5, 2014

Cincinnati Country Day School is first school to choose Surface Pro 3 as its 1:1 student computing device

Cincinnati Country Day School in Ohio, one of the premier schools in the U.S. and a pioneer in the use of mobile computing in education, is the first school to adopt Surface Pro 3 as its 1:1 student computing device, writes Jacqueline Russell, Microsoft Surface Education Manager.

June 5, 2014

Find out which teams are going to the Imagine Cup 2014 World finals

A global judging panel has finished evaluating more than 170 student projects from 76 countries in the Imagine Cup’s World Semifinals round and has chosen the top 35 teams that Microsoft will fly to Seattle at the end of July for the 2014 World Finals.

June 5, 2014

Microsoft Azure cloud platform now available in Brazil

“In Brazil, and our other regions around the world, we’ve seen incredible demand for a global enterprise public cloud offering,” writes Takeshi Numoto, corporate vice president, Cloud and Enterprise Marketing, in a blog post. “Globally, more than 1,000 new customers join Azure every day, and revenue grew more than 150 percent in the last quarter.”

June 5, 2014

Microsoft’s life science partners explain why they rely on SharePoint

In a recently released white paper, Microsoft’s partners offer first-person accounts of what the SharePoint experience has been like for them and their customers over the years. They also explain why they rely on SharePoint as their go-to platform for their life sciences applications.