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July 25, 2013

After noticing how many customers shared external links for discussion amongst their workplace networks, the folks at Yammer took action and built a new feature to make it easier to share and talk about these Web pages.

July 25, 2013

The Internet Explorer team wants to help developers spend more time innovating and less time testing. With that in mind, along with today’s release of the Internet Explorer 11 Developer Preview for Windows 7, the team also updated modern.IE – a set of tools and resources that make developing for the web (and IE) just a little bit easier.

July 24, 2013

Have you ever wondered how those miscommunications and crossed wires that Hollywood screenwriters so love could be quashed if the main characters just used Skype? Stephanie Larson has, and in a particularly entertaining edition of Play Blog today, she writes about 10 blockbuster movies in which “happily ever after” coulda, woulda and shoulda been just a Skype call away.

July 24, 2013

Though MSBuild has shipped as a component of the .NET framework since 2005, it has always been primarily a development tool most often used by Visual Studio developers. Now, it will ship as part of Visual Studio 2013 so the team can “more rapidly evolve MSBuild,” according to the Visual Studio Blog.

July 24, 2013

When the time came for Ava Van to take her long-anticipated, two-month volunteer trip to Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, the aspiring TV reporter did extensive research and decided that Microsoft Surface would be the device to make the trip with her. A post on the Surface Blog today details her adventure.