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January 17, 2014
Run toward ‘The Zombies are Coming!’ collection for Windows Phone

More than 30 games run the gamut of zombie culture, from “Into the Dead” (set in the middle of a zombie apocalypse where staying alive means moving fast and defending yourself against hordes of the undead), to the alien zombies among us in “Zombie DOOM,” to the more playful “Zombie Ragdoll” and irreverent “Wall Street Zombies.”

January 17, 2014
How OneNote makes life easier for one family on the go

William Devereux got his seven-member family using OneNote originally as a “place to store a list of Wi-Fi network IDs and passwords where we all could access them.” In the three years since then, OneNote has become the go-to resource for the household for much more.

January 17, 2014
Clean out your inbox even faster with Outlook.com’s improved Sweep and Search features

The average Outlook.com customer gets more than 10,000 personal emails a year – and 80 percent of them are, well, let’s just say, less than urgent. We’re talking newsletters, sales offers and updates. In the coming weeks, Outlook.com is rolling out improvements to existing features, including Sweep and Search to deal with such clutter.

January 17, 2014
Latest recipients of Windows Azure research grants include forensic investigations and ‘Gangnam Style’

Microsoft Research’s Windows Azure for Research program includes an ongoing series of Windows Azure cloud training events and Windows Azure research grants, with the most recent topics and recipients selected ranging from “Minority Report: Using the Cloud to Enable Proactive Digital Forensic Investigations” by Liliana Pasquale of the University of Limerick, Ireland, to “Does ‘Gangnam Style’ really exist? – Answers from data science perspective” by Joon Heo of Yonsei University in South Korea.

January 16, 2014
NPD numbers: Xbox One leads in December

December NPD Group figures released Thursday revealed Xbox One was the No. 1 selling console in the market in the U.S., selling 908,000 units in December. Additionally, Xbox 360 continued to see strong momentum with 643,000 units sold in December, putting it in the No. 3 spot overall, and lead for last-generation hardware.