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May 9, 2014

Father of first Xbox Ed Fries optimistic about Xbox One

May 8, 2014

Satya Nadella one of three VIP judges at Imagine Cup World Finals

The Imagine Cup World Semifinals round is in progress, with more than 200 teams competing to advance to the July finals in Seattle. There, the best student projects will face the scrutiny of VIP judges such as Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella.

May 8, 2014

Miss your pets? Use Skype to check in with them when you’re away

Skype’s Pet Brand Ambassador Paris Permenter is an in-demand speaker and successful author, which means she has to leave her two dogs and four cats behind when she travels. Luckily, she has Skype to make video calls to keep in touch.

May 8, 2014

‘Sunset Overdrive’ puts you into overdrive to eliminate zombie mutants

In “Sunset Overdrive,” you might be tempted to grab a drink with friends in the fictional world of Sunset City, but beware: As home to the world’s largest beverage producer, Fizzco, it’s also the epicenter of the apocalypse.

May 8, 2014

Ventyx asset performance management software now available in Microsoft Azure

Ventyx has announced that its industry-leading asset performance software is now available in Microsoft Azure. This partnership provides Microsoft’s cloud platform to support Ventyx’s asset health solution, which brings it to customers faster.

May 8, 2014

US Partners: You may be eligible for added incentives for Microsoft Office 365 sales

For qualifying sales of Microsoft Office 365 through Open or Advisor from April through June, U.S. partners may be eligible for an incremental 8 percent payout through either the Online Services Advisor incentive program, or through a one-time Open incentive payment.

May 8, 2014

Let us hear from you: Take the 3-minute Future of Cloud Computing survey

The 4th annual Future of Cloud Computing survey is underway, and Microsoft, along with North Bridge and Gigaom Research and 60 industry collaborators, wants to hear from you about your plans for cloud technologies, how your cloud resources are being applied, and what you see as drivers and inhibitors of adoption.

May 8, 2014

Forecasting capabilities added to Power BI for Office 365

Forecasting capabilities, a new feature for Power BI (Business Intelligence) for Office 365, was announced Thursday at the PASS Business Analytics Conference in San Jose, California. The added feature means customers can apply forecasting, hindcasting and do “what-if” analysis with outliers when visualizing and exploring data.

May 8, 2014

Microsoft Research explores ways your phone could help save your life

Along with collaborators at the Stanford School of Medicine, Microsoft Research’s Nina Mishra is working on a project that examines how people use search engines in time-critical situations— and how that could translate to a phone being able to walk a person through resolving an emergency situation.

May 8, 2014

As part of SF Gives initiative, Microsoft helps fight poverty in Bay Area

Tipping Point provides cash support, as well as donations of communications, HR, technology, legal, board recruitment, leadership development, real estate, capital projects, strategy, evaluation and fundraising. This holistic approach has proven to be highly effective in strengthening nonprofit organizations and moving their good work forward.