Month: June 2017

Trove is about to experience a tectonic shift of epic proportions and nothing will ever be the same again. Enter the Megalithic Era and find a bigger, more robust world of adventure than ever before. We’re bringing prehistoric back with the massively monumental Megalithic Update, live now for Trove on the Xbox One with our biggest update since we launched this past December! Explore the new Jurassic Jungle biome and face off against ancient enemies that brings all the Trovians to the yard. Battle your heart out with the brand-new Dino Tamer class! This powerful pistolero summons a slew of… Continue reading Trove’s Megalithic Update Changes the World→

Today we are excited to announce a new, streamlined web experience for instantly viewing Word and PowerPoint files in OneDrive and SharePoint document libraries. In April, we announced viewer support for over 250 file types and we are building on top o… Continue reading Announcing new Word and PowerPoint previewers for OneDrive and SharePoint→

This week’s Data Exposed show welcomes back Maxim Lukiyanov to talk more about Spark performance tuning with Spark 2.x. Maxim is a Senior PM on the big data HDInsight team and is in the studio today to present Part 2 of his 4-part series.Topics in toda… Continue reading Spark Performance Tuning – Part 2 | Data Exposed→

When we released the original The Golf Club, we had no idea we’d have such an amazing community develop around the game. Whether it was creating courses or competing in tournaments, every single player brought something to the table and it’s our community that makes The Golf Club franchise what it is — and that’s exactly what we wanted to capture when we started working on The Golf Club 2. With The Golf Club 2, we wanted to give players the tools they needed to create the perfect golfing experience, without having to leave the game. This led us to… Continue reading Build Your Ideal Golf Society in The Golf Club 2 Today on Xbox One→

SharePoint communication sites are beautiful, dynamic sites that let you reach a broad internal audience. They look great on the web, in the SharePoint mobile app, on PC and on Mac. Today, we’re excited to announce that communication sites are now rolling out to Office 365 First Release customers, followed by full worldwide rollout to Office 365 customers in the coming months.

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Soumow sits with Joy Chik, Corporate Vice President for the Identity Division in Microsoft’s Cloud + Enterprise group. Joy’s team is responsible for Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Account (MSA), Microsoft Graph, Identity Protection and Identity Management suites which are delivered to customers as cloud services or on-premises products.

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GALs is a show about the women who work in Tech (at Microsoft or outside) from three ladies that currently work on the Channel 9 team. Golnaz Alibeigi, Soumow Atitallah, and Kaitlin McKinnon have started a new series featuring women in Tech who work in development, management, marketing and research who have interesting stories to share about their success in the industry and ideas on how to grow diversity in IT.

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Summer has officially arrived and we’re giving you plenty of reasons to stay inside with four exciting games coming to Games with Gold in July. For Xbox One, the open-world adventure game Grow Up will be available July 1 – 31, followed by the innovative (and colorful) racing game Runbow from July 16 to August 15. We’ll also have a couple of throwbacks to the Xbox 360 era thanks to Backward Compatibility. Step into the shoes of disillusioned and desperate criminals in Kane & Lynch 2 starting July 1 – 15, and then get ready for a swashbuckling adventure in… Continue reading Book a Staycation with July’s Games with Gold→

Valkyria Revolution is coming out today on Xbox One and we wanted to provide a helpful list of tips to get you started on this action-packed JRPG! But first, we wanted to talk a little bit about the game. Valkyria Revolution is not a sequel to the Valkyria Chronicles series. While you may have a special place in your heart for Welkin, Alicia, and the Edelweiss, Valkyria Revolution is an entirely new entry, so expect things to be different. In fact, “spinoff” would be a good word to describe it because it takes place in a different timeline, continent, and… Continue reading Tips for the Aspiring Soldier in Valkyria Revolution, Available Now on Xbox One→