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April 29, 2014

Embrace your inner sci-fi and comic geek with these Windows and Windows Phone apps

Here at Microsoft, we love geeks. (The company store sells t-shirts emblazoned with the word.) So it’s no wonder that Brandon LeBlanc’s latest batch of favorite Windows and Windows Phone apps and games embraces geekdom on many levels – especially sci-fi and comics.

April 29, 2014

New 2-in-1 Aspire Switch 10 is a notebook and tablet with 4 different modes

It’s a two-in-one device, but it’s also got four modes. Keeping track? You don’t have to. With Acer’s new Aspire Switch 10, here’s what’s important: you can use it pretty much any way you want: as a notebook, pad or tablet, for viewing and sharing displays, or in “tent” mode, propped up on an airplane tray table, for example.

April 29, 2014

Make Mom’s day with Fancy gift boxes and enter sweepstakes to win a Surface

The Fancy app delivers gifts year-round, but for Mother’s Day they’ve curated three different packages ranging from $19 to $79. And, if you enter the Fancy Windows Mother’s Day Sweepstakes, you could win a Microsoft Surface tablet.

April 29, 2014

Staff App Pick: Take flight with the Prepware Private Pilot app for Windows and Windows Phone

Do you dream of learning to fly? Take the first step by finding an instructor at a local flight school and downloading these two apps.

April 29, 2014

Rise and shine! Bing finds out which US cities are early risers

Inspired by Nate Silver’s recent experiment of examining major U.S. cities’ work arrival times, Bing data scientists explored the search engine’s usage as a barometer for when people get online, start work or wake up. As you can see from the infographic, New Yorkers are the latest to get up and at ‘em in the a.m.

April 29, 2014

This wedding planner counts on Surface 2 for getting all the details done

Wedding planner Ashlee spends a lot of time out and about, testing cakes, scouting wedding venues and constantly communicating with her clients. With her at all times is her Surface 2. “The quickness of opening Surface 2 and getting into the apps” is a huge help, she says.

April 29, 2014

New Bing Translator plugin available for WordPress

Using the plugin, visitors can translate a site into any of more than 40 supported languages in one click, without leaving the page once this lightweight, cross-browser plugin is installed. This plugin also provides options for suggesting translations.

April 29, 2014

‘Dragon Age: Inquisition’ gameplay trailer: The demons are in the details

In “Dragon Age: Inquisition,” the Inquisitor is the only survivor of a cataclysmic blast and the only one who can stop demons from terrorizing the land of Thedas. A new trailer of the game coming Oct. 7 in the U.S. gives you the full-on effect of how it’s “raining demons out here.”

April 29, 2014

Security Trends in Cloud Computing Part 1: Financial Services

April 29, 2014

Microsoft donates $1 billion to help US schools buy PCs