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If you’re headed off for a vacation or have a business trip, you can check your email, catch up on news, make sure you’re in the know on what all your contacts are up to on Facebook and Twitter, share updates of your own and chat on Skype – all for free anywhere Skype Wi-Fi is offered, at more than 1 million hotspots worldwide.

Xbox One’s new reputation model helps expose people who aren’t fun to be around and creates real consequences for trouble-makers that harass good players. Find out how it works.

On July 25 the Internet Explorer team released new developer tools for IE11, and the reception was amazing. On Wednesday the team took to the road to talk up the new tools and deliver free treats to developers in San Francisco.

SkyDrive is built into Windows 8 and Windows Phone, and it’s available for pretty much every other device and platform on the planet, too. (Even Xbox 360, so you can check out your videos and photos on the big screen.)

A major refresh of the Windows Azure SDK 2.1 for .NET was released Wednesday. Check out the highlights.

The latest episode of “Inside Windows Phone” provides developers with a walkthrough of some of the more powerful imaging developer scenarios possible on Windows Phone.

Senior Content Developer Andrew Byrne describes a way for developers to test their apps with test data before those apps ship.