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May 16, 2014

Staff App Pick: Kapitall app for Windows helps teach investment basics so you don’t have to lose your shirt

Buying and trading stocks can be a tricky and arcane business, but the Kapitall app for Windows can help beginners learn the basics of the financial markets by making trades in a gaming environment before actually investing real, hard-earned money.

May 16, 2014

Weekend Reading: May 16th Edition — New cloud services highlighted at TechEd North America and the Windows Store gets an update

In this edition of Weekend Reading, we’ve got stories about new services announced at TechEd 2014 that will remove barriers to cloud adoption, a refresh of the Windows Store that makes it easier to find apps, and new apps and games like “Wordament Snap Attack” and “Spider-Man 2.”

May 16, 2014

Welcome back, Master Chief: ‘Halo 5: Guardians’ to launch on Xbox One in fall 2015

“’Halo 5: Guardians’ is a bigger effort than ‘Halo 4,’” writes Bonnie Ross, 343 Industries general manager. “That applies to the content and scope of the game, as well as the technology in what’s now a brand new and more powerful engine.”

May 16, 2014

Halo 5: Guardians announced for Xbox One

May 15, 2014

Skype helps students around the world explore remote region of the Arctic

Former school teacher Jamie Buchanan-Dunlop has a passion for education and for ocean science, and he founded the Digital Explorer program to bring his two loves together. He uses Skype to share his Frozen Ocean expeditions with classrooms around the globe.

May 15, 2014

Electronic Frontier Foundation gives Microsoft top rating on privacy approach to government access to customer data

Microsoft met every one of six factors that companies were rated against, including the stringency of the legal demands companies require before providing data, their efforts to notify customers about government demands, transparency in reporting the volume and type of demands received and company efforts to fight for customers’ privacy rights in court and in Congress.

May 15, 2014

UK’s South West Water uses Microsoft Dynamics CRM to improve its customer service

The move gave SWW a flexible solution to make the most of modern technologies in a cost efficient way, enabling it to improve the customer experience by embracing digital communications via the Web, email and text messages.

May 15, 2014

Survey: Small business owners reveal need for technology but many haven’t adopted cloud solutions

National Small Business Week is underway in the U.S., and a Microsoft-commissioned survey of more than 500 small business owners showed 86 percent believe technology is important to the success of their company, but many of them are missing out on the value of cloud technology.

May 15, 2014

Series on security trends in cloud computing wraps up with the public sector

A four-part series on the potential security benefits of cloud computing wraps up with the public sector, focusing on the value of improving data classification practices among government entities.

May 15, 2014

Microsoft participation in upcoming events for financial community announced

Microsoft will participate in the JP Morgan Technology, Media & Telecom Conference on May 20, and in the Cowen & Company Technology, Media & Telecommunications Conference on May 28. Interested parties can listen to a webcast of these events on Microsoft’s Investor Relations website.