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Cortana reminds you of the important stuff – even when you forget to ask Cortana* already gives you reminders for people, places and times, and helps you make and manage to-do lists so you don’t forget a thing. Now, Cortana can help you remember things you’ve said you would do in your emails—without you even having to ask. We’ve all been in the situation where we’ve promised to do something in email, like send your boss a report by end of day, or purchase tickets to the movies for your date night. But the day goes on, emails pile up, and you quickly forget. Now Cortana has your back. Using machine learning technology developed in partnership with Microsoft Research, Cortana automatically recognizes when you make a commitment in email messages and will proactively suggest a reminder to you to follow [ more… ]

MARS future looking sweeter with Microsoft technology Whether it’s grabbing gum at checkout, satisfying late-afternoon hunger with a Milky Way ®, or even buying pet food for that unconditional loving best friend, we’ve all been surrounded by MARS products and might not even know it! As a century-old family-owned business, MARS has certainly found its recipe for success. The company has made $35 billion in global sales by putting people first in everything they do. With 60 brands across six segments from food, drinks, chocolate, confectionary (gum), pet care and symbioscience, the company is more than just sweet treats. MARS understands a long-term vision that is committed to product, technology and workplace innovation based on the company’s Five Principles– Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom. MARS has long valued a workplace that encourages mutuality and open communication among all Associates. [ more… ]

Announcing Project Rome Android SDK Project Rome Overview Project Rome is a platform for creating experiences that transcend a single device and driving up user engagement – empowering a developer to create human-centric scenarios that move with the user and blur the lines between their devices regardless of form factor or platform. We first shipped Project Rome capabilities for Remote Launch and Remote App Services in Windows 10 Anniversary Update. Project Rome Android SDK Today we are excited to announce the release of the Android version of the Project Rome SDK.  This Android SDK works both with Java and with Xamarin. You can download the Project Rome SDK for Android at <a href="https://github.com/Microsoft/project-rome/tree/master/Project%20Rome%20for%20Android%20(preview%20release)). Capabilities exposed through the Project Rome Android SDK Let’s take an example of an app that might need this capability. In the last blog post, we had [ more… ]

Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 15031 for PC Hello Windows Insiders! Thank you very much to those of you who joined in on yesterday’s Beam webcast for our Bug Bash! It was a pleasure to hear from so many familiar names in real time. We loved talking with you all and definitely want to do so more often. We will vary the times so that we can hit various regions around the world! Are you a Windows Developer? Today is Windows Developer Day! Check out our livestream from 9am-1pm PST, which outlines what’s new for developers in the Windows 10 Creators Update. Whether you’re building for the web or UWP, the latest consumer app or line of business tool, there’s something in it for you. Tomorrow will be our “Developer focus” day for the Bug Bash, so tune in today [ more… ]