Month: September 2018

Gears Pro Circuit Season 2 makes its first appearance on the West Coast this week with the Gears Pro Circuit San Diego Open, taking place from September 28th-30th at the Town and Country Resort and Convention Center. The top Gears teams from around the world will all be in attendance as they battle it out for a piece of the $250,000 prize pool. OpTic Gaming comes into the event as the favorite to take home the title following their dominating performance in New Orleans and winning the last seven online 2Ks. Echo Fox coming in as the second seed is… Continue reading Gears Pro Circuit Season 2 Heads West to San Diego→

MINECON Earth, Minecraft’s worldwide celebration livestream of all things Minecraft is just around the corner! It’s happening this Saturday, Sept. 29 from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. PDT and we’re inviting the Minecraft community to join us at Microsoft Stores across the U.S., Puerto Rico and Canada. A MINECON Earth party is not only a great place to meet other players and learn from skillful creators – depending on the location you can also expect giveaways, Q&A panels with developers or builders, costume contests, Minecraft trivia and the opportunity to snag exclusive MINECON Earth merch! No less than 81 Microsoft… Continue reading Celebrate MINECON Earth at a Microsoft Store Party!→

Want to game on-the-go without sacrificing performance? Check out the new Samsung Notebook Odyssey Z. Powered by Windows 10, the new notebook combines an ultra-slim design with an innovative cooling system and top-tier hardware for next-level performance. In addition to being great for games, it’s designed for other processor-intense activities like video editing and 3D […] Continue reading Samsung introduces high-performance gaming laptop→

Welcome to a new Games with Gold reveal for Xbox One and Xbox 360! In October on Xbox One, battle it out in the kitchen in Overcooked!, then defeat the forces of evil in Victor Vran. On Xbox 360 and Xbox One via Backward Compatibility, create movie magic in Stuntman: Ignition, and take out your targets in Hitman: Blood Money. All games will be available exclusively for Xbox Live Gold members for a limited time as part of Games with Gold. With Xbox Live Gold, you get the most advanced multiplayer service, free games, and exclusive member discounts on games… Continue reading New Games with Gold for October 2018→

Yesterday at Microsoft Ignite, Larry Jin (Senior Project Manager at Microsoft) and Mark Rackley (Microsoft MVP and CSO at PAIT Group) presented a Theater Session on building your first question-and-answer bot using Azure Bot Services. Bot Services just… Continue reading Review of THR2040: Getting started with Azure bots in 10 minutes with Larry Jin and Mark Rackley→

As of today, enterprises use an average of 1,100 cloud apps in their organization, with 75% considering SaaS essential to their business. At the same time, the increasing dependability on cloud services has introduced a new threat vector – with the ris… Continue reading What’s new with Microsoft Cloud App Security – MS Ignite edition 2018→

 
On September 6th, Microsoft announced two new resources to help our customers shift to the modern desktop – Desktop Analytics and Desktop App Assure. As the FastTrack lead for application compatibility, I’ve spent the last 12 months speaking wi… Continue reading Standing behind our application compatibility promise – Desktop App Assure→

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As Microsoft’s Information Protection ecosystem expands, you’ve given us feedback to expand our support for more standard file types outside of Office document formats for labeling and protection scenarios. Today we’re announcing support for t… Continue reading New support for PDF encryption with Microsoft Information Protection→