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January 29, 2014

Microsoft Master Trainer: Useful apps for educators include Class Policy, Kno Textbooks and Bing Translator

In a guest post on the Microsoft in Education blog, Microsoft Fellow and Master Trainer Kim West helps sort out apps that would be useful to educators.

January 29, 2014

Surface is official technology partner for filmmakers’ nonprofit organization

Surface is now the official technology partner for We Make Movies, a Los Angeles nonprofit organization of filmmakers, reports Markus Weickenmeier, Surface manager. “The power and portability of Surface Pro are perfect for today’s young filmmaker and the passion and community behind We Make Movies makes this a wonderful partnership,” he writes on the Surface Blog.

January 29, 2014

‘Beast Quake’ felt ’round world thanks to Windows Azure

Cheering and stomping Seattle Seahawks fans — aka the 12th Man — literally rocked the world on Jan. 19 as their team defeated the San Francisco 49ers. University of Washington seismologists and a handful of hard-core fans know, because they were doing some extra special listening — thanks to some last-minute help from Windows Azure. Read all about it.

January 28, 2014

Xbox Wire recalls its favorite (spoiler-free) moments from ‘Gears of War’

With Microsoft’s news Monday about its acquisition of the “Gears of War” franchise, it’s still too early to speculate about what a “Gears of War” game for Xbox One would look like, but it’s “the perfect time to take a look back at some of our favorite memories from the series’ history,” Xbox Wire writes.

January 28, 2014

Leading up to big game, Bing searches focus on Seahawks, Richard Sherman and Peyton Manning

As we head into the final days before Sunday’s much anticipated match-up between the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos, Bing looked at searches related to the game and found that the biggest ones seem to zero in on the Emerald City’s reps (including Richard Sherman, Marshawn Lynch and Derrick Coleman) and the Mile High City’s quarterback Peyton Manning. As the Bing Search blog reports, Seattle captured searches in 33 states and Denver the remaining 17.

January 28, 2014

Take your time to find ‘Little Things Forever’ for Windows PCs and tablets

Take a look at the Triceratops in this blog post. It’s not your usual dinosaur, is it? The “Little Things Forever” game takes hand-drawn mosaics and embeds thousands of tiny things in them for you to find.

January 28, 2014

New admin center helps you manage your Office 365 customers

A new Office 365 Partner admin center is being rolled out to Microsoft partners worldwide over the next few weeks, giving partners new and enhanced tools to manage their Office 365 customers.

January 28, 2014

‘Madden NFL 25’ predicts this Sunday’s Super Bowl winner

The “Madden NFL” Super Bowl prediction, which has correctly forecast eight of the past 10 Super Bowl winners, is created by simulating the Super Bowl teams with updated rosters on Xbox One, the official game console of the NFL.

January 28, 2014

Connect the dots with ‘Flow Free: Bridges’ now in the Windows Store

“Flow Free: Bridges” has a simple premise: Connect dots of matching colors to create pipes and start a flow. Pair all the colors to cover the entire board – and use new bridges to let pipes cross and solve each puzzle.

January 28, 2014

New security papers can help small businesses manage data better

“Data Classification for Cloud Readiness” outlines the risks and issues that can be mitigated to ensure a smoother transition to a cloud service. “CISO Perspectives on Data Classification” provides insight from the chief information security officers of three organizations about key data classification issues and challenges, and how they have implemented data classification.