Microsoft Company Blogs

Microsoft and the NFL kick off new interactive in-game and fantasy experiences for Xbox One

May 21, 2013

Microsoft and the National Football League have changed the way you will watch the most popular sport in North America through a new multi-year partnership...

The Official Microsoft Blog

VIDEO: Xbox One revealed

May 21, 2013

Get a closer look at Xbox One....(read more)

Next at Microsoft

May 2013 Security Bulletin Webcast, Q&A, and Slide Deck

May 17, 2013

For those who couldn’t attend the live webcast, today we’re publishing the May 2013 Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page. We fielded 13...

Security Response Center

Congratulations to the Imagine Cup 2012 Winners!

July 16, 2012

I wish I could be in two places at once, but it was physically impossible for me to be in Australia for the Worldwide Imagine Cup finals. More than 350...

Education Insights

Improving transparency by ending anonymous patents

May 17, 2013

Posted by Horacio GutierrezDeputy General Counsel & Corporate Vice President, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft Recording ownership in the U.S. Patent and...

Microsoft on the Issues

A Simpler Approach to Packaging Receives 2013 Green Award

May 21, 2013

At Microsoft our supply chain is a sustainability imperative. In 2013, we began to require our suppliers to provide reports on their adherence to the...

Microsoft Green Blog

Developer Tools

Ludus Windows 8 Game Starter Kit - Pleasing the Platformer in you...

May 13, 2013

Todays' project by Christer Kaitila is a kit that will help you quickly and easily build Windows 8 Platform games. Almost painfully easy to create games... If...

Channel 9

Hortonworks HDP -- Open Source Apache Hadoop Distribution is Enterprise-ready

May 21, 2013

Generally Available on Linux, Windows Server and Windows Azure. From: Gianugo Rabellino, Senior Director of Open Source Communities, Microsoft Open...

Interoperability @ Microsoft

Announcing availability of ISOs for Visual Studio Updates

May 3, 2013

Last month, we shipped Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 (VS2012.2). We’re continuing to see good uptake of the Update releases, with the majority of Visual Studio...

Visual Studio

Microsoft Dynamics

Streamlined accounting processes save Unwire three to four days a month

March 18, 2013

When thousands of Danes vote for their contestants on reality shows or buy bus tickets using their mobile phones, Unwire applications keep track of the huge...

The Edge - Microsoft Dyanmics ERP

How to check caller form in ax 2009 using X++?

Oct. 24, 2012

 To check the caller form name you can use this code. if( element.args().parm()==formstr(FormName)) { // } Note: Form Name Must be Correct Name

Microsoft Dynamics Community

RELEASE: ALM for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011: CRM Solution Lifecycle Management

May 17, 2013

On behalf of CRM Content Publishing, I am pleased to announce the release of the white paper, ALM for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011: CRM Solution Lifecycle...

Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Entertainment and Devices

Xbox One and Used Games

May 21, 2013

We know there is some confusion around used games on Xbox One and wanted to provide a bit of clarification [...]

Xbox Live's Major Nelson

Office

The gift of organization

May 21, 2013

Guest blogger Leticia Barr, founder of TechSavvyMama.com, shares the gift of technical assistance for the person who has everything. Read on to learn her...

The Microsoft Office Blog

Outlook.com now lets you chat with Google friends – one more reason to make the switch

May 14, 2013

We're excited to announce that you can chat with your Google friends directly from Outlook.com. With this feature, the next time you're reading an email from...

Outlook 2010 Team Blog

Download our free Office 2010 migration guides

Sept. 7, 2010

Over on the The Microsoft Office Blog there is a post that links to some migration guides for Microsoft Office 2010: “Whether you're coming from an older...

Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering

Online Services Division

Travel Expert and Founder of Vagabondish, Mike Richard, Joins Us To Share Travel Tips!

May 20, 2013

Summer is right around the corner, and that means it’s time to hit the road! Summer travel plans can be hard to book, with overbooked flights, steep prices...

Bing Search Blog

An Update on Bing Ads and the Yahoo! Bing Network

May 13, 2013

This post has been cross-posted from the Bing Ads blog. As I get ready to head to Europe to for a series of customer meetings on the “state of the state”...

Microsoft Advertising

msnNOW for Firefox Now Available

May 13, 2013

Firefox users can now scan msnNOW within their browsers

MSN Blog

New Blog for Microsoft Tag, follow us!

Oct. 19, 2010

Tag community, I'm glad to announce that we’ve moved our official Microsoft Tag blog under our new website. You can now follow our latest news regarding...

Microsoft Tag

Servers and Infrastructure

You’re invited to help us celebrate an unlikely pairing in open source

April 16, 2013

We are just days away from reaching a significant milestone for our team and the open source and open standards communities: the first anniversary of...

Port 25 - The Open Source Community at Microsoft

Forefront TMG Service Pack 2 Now Available

Oct. 11, 2011

We are happy to announce the availability of Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 Service Pack 2 (SP2). The service pack is available for download...

Forefront Team Blog

Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows is Generally Available

May 21, 2013

by STB Blogger Today, Hortonworks announced the general availability of the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) for Windows, the industry’s first 100 percent open...

STB News Bytes

Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows 8 Security Insights: Module 10 - Boot Security | TechNet Video

May 9, 2013

Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows 8 Security Insights: Module 10 - Boot Security

TechNet Edge

The Private Cloud Blog has combined its efforts with Building Clouds

April 16, 2013

Hey everyone, I wanted to give you an update on things since we have been a little quiet on the Windows Server Blog over the last couple of months. Clearly,...

Windows Server

Using Exchange Web Services to Apply a Personal Tag to a Custom Folder

May 20, 2013

In Exchange 2010, we introduced Retention Tags, a Messaging Records Management (MRM) feature that allows you to manage email lifecycle. You can use retention...

Exchange Team Blog

Windows

Looking at netbook sales

May 6, 2010

There is some interesting discussion happening today regarding netbook sales, namely that new devices may be negatively impacting sales and growth. Paul...

Windows 7 Team Blog

The next chapter for the Windows Live Messenger network

Nov. 6, 2012

More than 12 years ago we released the first version of Messenger to help people chat and keep in touch online in a more personal way. One of the unique...

Inside Windows Live

Windows Server 2012 Essentials Release Candidate is now available!

Aug. 30, 2012

As we recently announced on the Windows Server 2012 Essentials blog, the Release Candidate is now available for download. Windows Server 2012 Essentials has...

Windows Home Server

Love magazines? Get a $50 credit from Zinio for your Nokia Lumia

May 17, 2013

The popular digital magazine app Zinio arrived in the Windows Phone Store this week as an exclusive for Nokia’s Windows Phone 8 models. (Miss it? You can grab...

Windows phone Blog

IE Dev Center: Finding the resources you need, quickly

May 20, 2013

Last week we launched a remodeled Internet Explorer Developer Center (msdn.com/ie) to make it easier for developers to find the comprehensive documentation...

Internet Explorer