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July 31, 2013

Microsoft Technical Fellow Brian Harry calls the new Microsoft Developer Network site a “major update to the MSDN home page” that gives users a more modern place to go to find out everything they want to know about developing for Microsoft platforms.

July 31, 2013

Microsoft concentrated “2012 R2” efforts on enabling service providers to build out a highly-available, highly-scalable IaaS infrastructure.

July 31, 2013

Your Xbox 360 experience just got a lot funnier with the addition of two of the most-watched TV brands in the U.S.: Comedy Central and Nickelodeon. With Comedy Central, Xbox Live Gold members in the U.S. can watch stand-up comedy until their sides split. Unlimited access to the CC: Stand-Up library means you can enjoy more than 6,000 videos from 700 of the funniest comedians on the planet.

July 31, 2013

Security is a hot topic, as is evident by the 7,000 security experts, researchers and hackers converging at Black Hat this week. So it was no surprise when a post on the Server & Cloud Blog reported that one of the most popular sessions from TechEd this year was “Hacker tools you should know and worry about,” which is featured in the video here.

July 31, 2013

In a blog post on Tuesday, Microsoft Technical Fellow Brian Harry confirmed that Visual Studio 2012 will get another update, most likely some time before the end of 2013.

July 31, 2013

Last month we launched a new version of Office Mobile for iPhone; today it’s Android’s turn. Like the iPhone version, Office Mobile for Android phones is available to Office 365 subscribers for download at no additional charge. (It comes preinstalled on all Windows Phone 8 devices.)

July 31, 2013

At Build 2013, the Windows Phone team held a session focused on basic networking support in Windows Phone. Now, the Windows Phone Developer Blog has published an in-depth post on basic networking support in Windows Phone 8, just in case you missed the Build session.

July 31, 2013

As long as people write code, it’s going to be imperfect. That’s where the class of security researchers colloquially known as “bug hunters” come in, and Microsoft is paying them up to $100,000 via several new bounty programs to catch vulnerabilities, discover techniques that can get past a program’s defenses and even recommend repairs for problems.