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May 14, 2014

Microsoft awards academic grants focused on innovative datacenter and energy efficiency

Each year Microsoft issues a request for proposals for the Software Engineering Innovation Foundation (SEIF), to research teams across the world to support academic research in software engineering technologies, tools, practices and teaching methods. New this year was a contest expansion that includes applications geared toward datacenter innovation and energy efficiency.

May 14, 2014

Microsoft Surface event to be webcast Tuesday, May 20

Join us at 8 a.m. PT Tuesday, May 20, when the Surface team holds a live event from New York City, which also will be webcast live on the Microsoft News Center.

May 14, 2014

No more updates or support for Windows XP

If you’re still on Windows XP, you won’t receive any security or non-security updates through Windows Update or Microsoft Update. Support ended for Windows XP April 8. If you continue to use Windows XP without support, your computer will still likely work — but it will become vulnerable to security risks and over time, its performance will be affected.

May 14, 2014

It’s time to control time with ‘Super Time Force,’ now out for Xbox One and Xbox 360

You can rewind time and decide when to jump back into the action, even teaming up with your past best selves in a single-player, co-op experience. This one’s destined to become a “timeless classic.”

May 14, 2014

App of the Week: Challenge your brain and race the clock with new word puzzler ‘Wordament Snap Attack’

Do you love Wordament or word-finding games like Scrabble? Then you’re bound to love the all-new “Wordament Snap Attack” for Windows and Windows Phone.

May 14, 2014

Restaurant chain puts the Internet of Things on its own menu to improve service

By using an intelligent system based on Microsoft technologies, the chain has increased profits, streamlined the process of opening new stores, gotten more control over inventory systems and improved customer service.

May 14, 2014

7 things Insomniac Games is doing for the first time with mutant-lovin’ ‘Sunset Overdrive’

The world of “Sunset Overdrive,” filled with bad mutant juju because of fictional beverage producer Fizzco’s messed-up energy drink, represents a number of firsts for Insomniac Games, including its first title built from the ground up exclusively for Xbox.

May 14, 2014

Employee volunteers connect with community on Yammer Give Day

Yammer’s second Give Day sent more than 150 employee volunteers to nine different San Francisco organizations, where they served and prepped food, tutored students, tended to community gardens and gave essentials to the homeless. They also taught lessons on technology.

May 14, 2014

More tanks! More guns! Check out updated ‘World of Tanks: Xbox 360 Edition’

There are seven new American tanks and five new premium Soviet tanks, including the classic M18 Hellcat, “the epitome of World War II tanks and the fastest tank in the game,” Xbox Wire writes.

May 14, 2014

Microsoft establishes ‘Lync’ to Android tablets