Recent News

January 20, 2014
‘Hangman Pro’ in WIND_W_ Store gives high-tech shine to classic G_ME

As a kid, you may have played “Hangman” on paper with friends. Now, “Hangman Pro” for Windows PCs and tablets gives you a range of puzzle categories, options to play solo or with a friend and a retro cool classic chalkboard display – without having to get any dust on your fingers or clothes.

January 20, 2014
Designing Xbox One: The inside story

Over the last few months, the /stories team has spent countless hours with the people behind Xbox One, and they all shared the same fan-like enthusiasm for the incredible product they spent years painstakingly creating. Now you can get the inside story on Xbox as told by three of its brightest minds: Carl Ledbetter, industrial designer; Boyd Multerer, director of development; and Alex Hebert, creative producer.

January 18, 2014
How to clean up your Skype messages, chat history and Skype Home

Over at Skype’s Tips & Tricks blog, Matthew de Beer says he often sees questions from users who want to know how to delete individual messages, entire chats or even the contents of Skype Home. He provides instructions on how to do all those things in a new post.

January 17, 2014
Smart contact lenses emerge from basic research

Desney Tan, a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research begins his blog like so: “Yesterday, my long-time friends and colleagues Babak Parviz and Brian Otis announced on the Google blog their intent to develop a glucose-sensing contact lens. I’m not usually a blogger, but given that my inbox and voicemail are stuffed with calls for comments and queries about the relationship of this project to the one Microsoft Research worked on with Babak and Brian a few years ago, I thought I’d use this forum to provide my perspective…”

January 17, 2014
Yammer’s Working Social Tour expands to Tokyo, Amsterdam and São Paulo

The Working Social Tour – co-hosted with Office 365, Microsoft SharePoint and Dynamics – invites business leaders to all-day, free events with insightful keynotes and informative breakout sessions about how social technologies can help meet the demands of an increasingly mobile and interconnected world.