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October 18, 2013
Visual Studio 2013 lets developers ‘mix and match’ ASP.NET technologies

Until now, working with each of these approaches in Visual Studio meant working with separate project types and tooling isolated to that specific project’s capabilities. With Thursday’s release of Visual Studio 2013, comes the One ASP.NET vision, which unifies the Web project experience by freeing developers to mix and match the different ASP.NET technologies they want to use within a single project.

October 18, 2013
Bing Weather and Bing Sports apps for Windows Phone 8 get updates

The Bing Weather app now supplies current snow and weather conditions at ski resorts around the world, plus weather history and additional metrics like the UV index. A few other notable changes include revamped Live Tiles displaying current conditions, wind speed, and precipitation — with a 5-day forecast on the flip side.

October 18, 2013
Visual Studio 2013 brings new features for LightSwitch fans

Fans of the Visual Studio LightSwitch development environment appreciate how it makes it so much faster and easier to develop businesses apps and data services. As of Thursday, those fans have something new to cheer about: Alongside news that Visual Studio 2013 is available for download came word of several new LightSwitch features.

October 17, 2013
App of the Week: Official Facebook app arrives with Windows 8.1

Live tile notifications give you an at-a-glance summary of post and message activity right on your Start screen. Use Facebook side-by-side with other apps and programs for easy multi-tasking. And the Windows People Hub integrates seamlessly and automatically with your Facebook contacts.

October 17, 2013
Check out the business benefits of Windows 8.1 and take steps now to begin your deployment

As Microsoft has shared before, Windows 8.1 represents a significant milestone for our business customers. It builds on our vision to offer businesses the most powerful and flexible modern operating system across devices, helps customers enable their mobile users wherever they are working, and combines that flexibility with the manageability and security IT Pros demand.