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The construction industry is a great testing bed for mobile technology because so much of the work is out in the field and communication is so critical to success, as Friday’s guest blog post by Patrick Wirtz of Chicago-based The Walsh Group shows.

When Anthony Salcito, Microsoft’s vice president of Worldwide Education, participated in a panel at the sold-out ASU+GSV Education Innovation Summit this week, his goal was simple. He wanted participants to know how critical education transformation is to the health of the global economy.

The popularity of Microsoft’s new Office apps for the iPad is no accident – it results from lots of hard work and thoughtful planning on the part of the engineering team. A new post by Derek Snook, senior program manager lead for Office Shared Features, gives you some examples.

Microsoft has partnered with AOL on a content distribution agreement that will bring some of AOL’s best video content to Microsoft’s video platforms, including MSN (with an audience of nearly 450 million unique visitors worldwide each month) and Bing Apps for Windows and Windows Phone.

The CII began as a result of the recent OpenSSL “Heartbleed” vulnerability, which, according to Netcraft’s April 2014 Web Server Survey, may have affected nearly 66 percent of active sites on the Internet.

The new Basic and Standard tiers work alongside the product’s Premium tier, which is currently in preview. Together these service tiers will make it easier for customers to support the needs of database workloads and application patterns built on Microsoft Azure.