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January 17, 2014

Watch an interview with Seahawks mascot and Microsoft employee Ryan Asdourian

Seattle’s KING 5 just paid a visit to Ryan Asdourian, a Microsoft communications manager who moonlights as the mascot for the Seattle Seahawks. In the interview, Adourian talks about his double life, shows off a few of his favorite Windows devices and explains how being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis inspired him to use his local celebrity to raise more than $300,000 (and counting) to fight the disease.

January 17, 2014

Say goodbye to Windows XP and hello to more flexible and secure ways for health professionals to work

The long goodbye for Windows XP is getting shorter, and health professionals who haven’t upgraded their Windows XP desktops yet might want to start that process, writes Neil Jordan, general manager of Health Worldwide for Microsoft and chief strategist for the organization’s health industry initiatives.

January 17, 2014

Microsoft US education exec: Commit to respecting student privacy in the cloud

A recently published study by the Fordham Center for Law and Information Policy has prompted Margo Day, vice president of U.S. Education for Microsoft, to issue a call to action to school leaders, parent groups, industry groups and policy makers to be better partners with schools. She suggests coming up with solutions on how to be more transparent about student data and agreeing to clear restrictions on the use of student data, including not using such data for advertising, sales or marketing purposes or without parental consent.

January 17, 2014

New capabilities, enhancements to Windows Azure include always-on support for websites

On Friday, Microsoft released another great set of capabilities and enhancements to Windows Azure including staged publishing support and always-on support for websites, as well as monitoring improvements for websites and SQL database alerts, and a general availability release for Hyper-V Recovery manager.

January 17, 2014

Play ‘NFL Connect’ on Windows PCs and tablets with your friends while you’re watching live football

“NFL Connect” makes you a part of any live NFL action by challenging you to predict key plays for the game happening in front of you. The game board features key players and plays, and you manage game tiles in a race to be the first to “connect” four tiles in a row based on the actual events of the live game.

January 17, 2014

Tips for using your own images to personalize Windows 8.1

It’s easy to make Windows 8.1 truly yours by adding your own images to the user interface. One feature for doing that lets you create panoramic backgrounds for dual monitors; another enables you to use your own photo as a picture password for better security.

January 17, 2014

Concerned about privacy? Take this Path BETA to control what you share on social media

Unless you’re comfortable living your life as an open book, you’ve probably got some privacy concerns about what you post on social networks. With Path BETA, now available for Windows Phone 8 devices, you can control what you share, and with whom, on those networks.

January 17, 2014

Don’t miss these deadlines for WPC 2014 registration savings, award entries

Friday, Jan. 17 is the last day to take advantage of the Refer-A-Colleague registration offer for the Worldwide Partner Conference 2014 July 13-17 in Washington, D.C. Also, the guidelines for the WPC 2014 Partner of the Year Awards, and related materials, are now available to download.

January 17, 2014

Seen at NRF: new intelligent systems solutions for retail

January 17, 2014

Weekend Reading: Jan. 17th Edition — Microsoft devices and services open new doors at the National Retail Federation convention

Catch up on Microsoft’s presence at the National Retail Federation convention, the company’s partnership with GoDaddy and how Office 365 is among the services companies such as RCS MediaGroup and Coles are using to modernize communications infrastructures and keep mobile employees plugged in.