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It’s that time of the year when it seems like everybody’s heading to Austin, Texas. South by Southwest is one of the nation’s premier festivals featuring music, film and interactive. But to call it a mere “festival” doesn’t really do it justice—to fully...

In January we announced the “ Windows 8.1 business user guide package ” and promised that there was more great user readiness content coming. Today we are pleased to announce the availability of the Windows 8.1 User Readiness Toolkit for IT Professionals...

In Windows 8.1, we introduced new app-to-app contracts that let your users easily interact with people in their address book and to integrate events into their calendar. In this two-part series we’ll look at both of these contracts, starting with contact...

Ever since I got my Dell M3800 mobile workstation PC , I’ve been a huge fan of the work that Dell is doing with their latest lineup of mobile workstation PCs. Today Dell announced a new more affordable member of its mobile workstation lineup: the Dell...

Sometimes I wonder who came up with the idea of green beer… and why it ever caught on. I mean sure, green is great, but personally I prefer my beer to be beer-colored . If, on the other hand, you’d like your Windows desktop to wear the green, we do have...

This weekend, Microsoft Studios will open in Austin, TX as part of South by Southwest (SXSW) 2014 . The Studio space showcases the diversity of Microsoft from Xbox to Windows to emerging Microsoft Research technologies focusing on the nexus between creativity...

Starting tomorrow, Eric Larsen and his 3-person team of adventurers will start off on an epic journey to traverse the Arctic Ocean from Northern Ellesmere Island to the geographic North Pole. The goal: break the current expedition speed record that was...

Today, Dell has announced the new classroom-ready Latitude 13 Education Series laptop that is built to meet the needs of any student computing program. This laptop is designed to be tough to withstand heavy use by students in classrooms – it has been...

I love show Top Gear. So when I saw that BBC had released the game Race The Stig today, I quickly downloaded it from the Windows Phone Store . It was the reason why I was late coming into work this morning (woops!). The game is super fun. You essentially...

This week’s Inside Windows Phone was written and recorded by Matthijs Hoekstra, senior product marketing manager for Windows Phone. -- Larry In this week’s Inside Windows Phone, we talked with Rob Tiffany about publishing apps for Windows Phone for the...