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Microsoft 3.0: Pushing productivity across platforms and devices

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's e-mail to employees last week served as the company's manifesto for a new era. Titled 'Bold Ambition & Our Core', the lengthy document sets the foundation for a new Microsoft, one that's moving away from Steve Ballmer's 'Devices and Services,' focused company to a more universal 'mobile-first and cloud-first,' company that embraces the opportunity to be the lead productivity and platform company.

We've seen the writing on the wall, under Nadella Microsoft has become a more altruistic technology giant, one that released their crown jewel, Microsoft Office, to the iPad, the device whose immense popularity threatened to bury the PC as a thing of the past.

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TimmyMe app brings location search, nutritional info and mobile payments to Windows Phone

Windows Phone 8 users can now enjoy the ability to quickly find the nearest Tim Hortons location. They can check the varied menu of goodies, peruse nutritional information and even pay for their double-doubles and donuts right from their Lumia devices. The TimmyMe app for Windows doesn't just find up to 20 nearby locations, it can inform users on amenities such as drive thru, Tim Card, Mobile payment, and Wi-Fi availabilities within that restaurant. For mobile payments, you can load up to five Tim Hortons prepaid cards on your smartphone so you never run out of coffee or baked goods.

Windows Phone to get an official file manager by month’s end

An official file manager is sorely missing on the Windows Phone. But that might change very soon if we are to take Joe Belfiore’s word for it. The head of Windows Phone at Microsoft said in a recent “Ask me Anything” on Reddit that their team is hoping to release their file manager by the end of the month. Belfiore even showed screenshots to authenticate this feature. There are third-party file managers out there but it is always better to work with an official one baked into the system already.

Source: Engadget

Microsoft works out kinks with Windows Phone's music app

Microsoft just released an update for its music app to address issues that cropped up on the Windows Phone 8.1 preview, such as no Cortana support and buggy interface. Now, the app lets you use voice command to search for playlists you want to list to, pause and play music, etc. Interface transitions look like they are smoother, too. And it woould seem the unexpected black screen issues are gone as well.

Source: Engadget