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April 6, 2014

Microsoft’s open sourcing of .Net: The back story

April 6, 2014

Kinect for Windows v2 Gets Down to Business

April 5, 2014

Surface Pro 2 is among the stars of Geek & Sundry’s ‘Unplugged’ series

A new YouTube series, “Unplugged” from Geek & Sundry, gives the Surface Pro 2 a starring role as the show brings videogame scenarios to real life (in often wacky ways) for five episodes.

April 4, 2014

At 12 million sold, ‘Minecraft’ one of the most successful Xbox 360 games ever

The “Minecraft” brain trust still has plenty of surprises in store for diehard “Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition” fans, including the April 18 release of the new Candy Texture Pack.

April 4, 2014

It’s kill or be killed battling barbarians in the new ‘Kingdom & Lords’ for Windows and Windows Phone

In the new medieval simulation adventure “Kingdom & Lords” for Windows and Windows Phone, you’re tasked with building a thriving fantasy kingdom while staving off attacks from the merciless Dark King and his barbarian followers.

April 4, 2014

Cloud computing in Xbox Live Compute improves play in ‘Titanfall,’ ‘Forza Motorsport 5’

John Bruno, Xbox Live lead program manager, writes that while the implementations of cloud computing in each game differ greatly, the benefits gamers realize are consistent. Those benefits include better overall connectivity, improved multiplayer experiences and improved and evolving gameplay experiences.

April 4, 2014

Battle the Covenant, scan docs, explore the moon – all with the Windows Store’s latest Red Stripe Deals

Each week brings more amazing Red Stripe Deals to the Windows Store that can save you at least 50 percent off the original price of selected apps, indie games and Xbox titles.

April 4, 2014

Microsoft announces Azure Automation preview

Azure Automation lets customers automate the creation, deployment, monitoring and maintenance of resources in their Azure environments using a highly-scalable and reliable workflow execution engine.

April 4, 2014

Developers: Delight and engage your users with these new Windows Phone 8.1 capabilities

This week at Build 2014, Microsoft announced Windows Phone 8.1 and the Visual Studio tooling to build apps for it. The release brings convergence to the Windows developer platform, making it easier to build apps that engage and flow across every Windows screen in a user’s life.

April 4, 2014

Hoop stats: Bing’s top college basketball fan searches

The folks at Bing decided to do a little “traveling” (the non-basketball kind) into the Bing search index to gather some insights as we head into the college basketball championships this weekend. Among other things, Bing looked at cities that are home to some of the most basketball-obsessed fans.