More popular apps coming to the Windows Store announced at Build 2013

Hi, Steve Guggenheimer here again. I just finished doing the Day 2 keynote for Build 2013 taking place right now in San Francisco. Last week I published a blog post about some new popular apps coming to the Windows Store. And during this morning’s keynote we announced more popular apps are coming to the Windows Store. Here is the breakdown on what we announced!

Disney:

    

Today, top Disney titles are available for Windows 8 and Windows Phone users including Temple Run: Brave (Download from the Windows Store and Download from the Windows Phone Store) and the newly released Where’s My Mickey? (Download from the Windows Store and Download from the Windows Phone Store). I’m excited to announce that Disney is bringing more top games to Windows and Windows Phone that our customers love and want. Avengers Initiative, Monsters University, Temple Run: Oz and Wreck It Ralph are coming to the Windows Store and Windows Phone Store this Fall and Toy Story Smash It! is also coming to the Windows Store this Fall.

Foursquare:

Foursquare previewed an exclusive, and uniquely designed, Windows 8 tablet app that goes beyond check-ins to use location data in a beautiful way to help users find interesting places and things to do around them.

"People want to experience and explore the world around them, and the Foursquare for Windows 8 app helps them do that. It makes it fun to search for a place for dinner or to go out, and helps people discover new experiences. We’ve worked with Microsoft on a bunch of initiatives over the years, and this product is another example of the great things we can do together." - Dennis Crowley, Co-founder and CEO of Foursquare

OpenTable:

With the OpenTable app for Windows 8, you can make reservations for your favorite restaurants right from your tablet or PC. With one glance at the main hub, you get an instant view of available tables nearby with “tonight for 2”, upcoming reservations, as well as favorite and recently viewed restaurants. You can use map search to hone in on that trendy neighborhood. You can use filters to find and book the hot new restaurant everyone’s been talking about. Popular restaurant dishes with Foodspotting images are available in a touch-friendly carousel view. And you can pin upcoming reservations and favorite restaurants to the Start screen! Download OpenTable from the Windows Store!

Rockmelt:

Rockmelt is now available for Windows 8 from the Windows Store! Rockmelt makes it fun and easy to discover the best stories, pictures, and videos on the web. It’s a beautifully designed app that has some unique features for Windows users. You can scroll endlessly. Tap on any tile to see the full story.

Rhapsody:

The Rhapsody app for Windows 8 brings Rhapsody's original editorial content and programming to life due to the immersive, visually stunning platform. You can discover new music and finding old favorites is fun and intuitive, with cool features like semantic zoom and pinning tracks, albums and playlists. Download Rhapsody today from the Windows Store!

We are excited to see the Windows Store continue to grow with amazing apps! To hear more about great new apps released and to keep tabs on the conversation happening at Build, follow me on Twitter @StevenGuggs.

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Popular apps come to Windows 8

Hey Steve Guggenheimer here, Chief Evangelist for Windows and your host for the Build conference next week. We’re only one week until Build and we’re really looking forward to getting together with developers in San Francisco to talk apps, code, industry trends, and of course have some fun. As we head into Build and the conversation on new apps, and apps yet to come, I wanted to take a moment and highlight strong app momentum for Windows 8.

There are great apps hitting the Windows Store all the time. In fact, at Computex in Taipei just 2 weeks ago, Tami Reller highlighted the growth from 70,000 apps to 80,000 apps in just 3 weeks.

Today I wanted to follow onto that by highlighting a few of the great apps hitting the store this week from these outstanding partners in our growing app ecosystem:

edjing:

 

edjing is a social DJ’ing app with a community of 2.5 million registered members mixing music and creating songs. With the edjing app on Windows 8, you get a wide variety of DJ’ing effects. You can bring in music from your personal music library and mix songs with those effects and then share them with friends on Facebook and Twitter. You can also customize the look of the turntables in the app with skins. With a “pre-cueing” feature in the app – you can preview tracks ahead of time and there is a feature called “Pitch Shifter” that is exclusive to the Windows 8 app. This feature allows you to change the music speed without modifying the tone of the song. The audio capabilities in Windows significantly reduced the time to develop the app at about 15 days versus 4 months for other platforms.

Download the edjing app for Windows 8 from the Windows Store today and start mixing and creating music.

Great British Chefs:

 

Great British Chefs is the UK’s leading award winning recipe site and they’ve just launched an app for Windows 8. The Great British Chefs app for Windows 8 is beautifully designed and brings in over 300 photographed recipes from 28 of the UK’s greatest chefs. With stunning photography, handy hints and tips, and instructional how to videos, you’ll have everything you need to reproduce the culinary works of great chefs like Marcus Wareing, Tom Aikens and Nathan Outlaw. Using the Search charm in Windows 8, it is super easy to find a recipe, share your favorite recipes with friends and family with the Share charm and pin your favorite recipes to your Start screen.

Download the Great British Chefs app for Windows 8 from the Windows Store today to start cooking your own culinary masterpiece.

Tesco Groceries:

 

Tesco is the UK's largest retailer and as such aims to serve our customers in a way which best suits how they choose to shop. Tesco worked closely with Microsoft as they brought Windows 8 to market to ensure that they could offer the best online shopping experience on the platform. They wanted to build on the freshness of the Windows 8 design and ensure that features such as check out and Click & Collect were built as native features in the application. Tesco customers are shopping at work, at home and on-the-go and working with Microsoft they have served up the best of Tesco's online shopping service and the best of Windows 8.

If you are located in the UK, download the Tesco Groceries app from the Windows Store today to start shopping.

Time Out:

 

Time Out is an International media group producing websites, magazines, travel guides and apps designed to be the essential guide to what's happening in cities around the world. Time Out's inspiration is now being brought to Windows 8, beginning with apps for Barcelona, London, Los Angeles, New York and Paris. The Time Out app for Windows 8, display content in a stunningly visual and interactive way, making it easy to browse, plan and share; to get the most out of your city.

Download the Time Out app from the Windows Store to discover your favorite city.

VEVO:

 

VEVO, a popular personalized music video and music entertainment platform, has come to Windows 8. The new VEVO app for Windows 8 provides users with access to 75,000 HD music videos as well as original programming and live concerts from popular artists all over the world. Right from the home screen in the app – you can access music videos by featured artists and the latest music video premieres. Using the Search charm, you can search for your favorite artists or discover new music with the various filtering options. And with Snap, you can watch your favorite music videos while browsing the web or playing your favorite games. You can also stay up to date with your favorite artists to view bios, upcoming tour dates and enjoy personalized music video playlists. And VEVO for Windows 8 offers VEVO TV, VEVO’s always on, broadcast-style music video channel, with a look at upcoming programs with a simple tap of the screen.

Download VEVO app for Windows 8 from the Windows Store to access your favorite music videos and artists.

Vyclone:

 

Vyclone is a unique social video service that brings together multiple views of a shared moment through videos that people co-create with friends. With the Vyclone app for Windows 8, you and your friends can effortlessly capture videos and bring them together for a single moment like a birthday, vacation or wedding. The intuitive touch capabilities paired with expansive UX makes content engagement and creation easy in the app. The Vyclone app also preserves landscape resolution when filming with Windows 8 tablets and smaller form factors. Vyclone found the great camera and audio capabilities in Windows 8 devices a perfect complement for their app.

Download Vyclone for Windows 8 from the Windows Store and start creating your own videos with friends.

Where’s My Mickey?

Where's My Mickey? is a brand new physics puzzler from Disney that comes to Windows 8 with stimulating weather mechanics and humorous animations. You solve challenging puzzles to see how the episode ends. You tap, swipe, and swirl to help Mickey collect water and complete each story. You get 3 episodes featuring Mickey for free with 2 Goofy episodes available for purchase. The game has a Live Tile, supports the Share charm and you can play the game with Snap!

Coming Soon: Where’s My Mickey will be available in the Windows Store for $4.99 (U.S.).

This is really just the tip of the iceberg and some really great examples of apps landing on the Windows platform. The excitement is continuing to grow and our entire team is excited to spend some time with developers from around the world next week in San Francisco at Build. Whether you will be able to join us live or follow along remotely, we’re excited to share even more exciting news next week! To hear more about great new apps released and follow the conversation at Build, follow me on twitter @StevenGuggs.

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Acer gets popular on Facebook!

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Circular References: Excel's most popular (!#?%) error message explained

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Millions of people using Excel don't get why they see the "circular reference" error message right after they've entered a formula. The message means that your formula is trying to calculate its own cell--kind of like when a dog chases its own tail. Because so many of you (millions) searched on "circular reference" on Office.com, we thought we should very clearly explain how to remove or fix your formula.

Sometimes the first step in resolving the issue is figuring out which cell contains the wayward formula--not an easy task when a worksheet can contain dozens of them. Because there can be so many, Excel has a built-in sleuth which can help you find it. Just look for the Error Checking option on the Formula tab.

The Office.com article "Remove or allow a circular reference" shows you how to use the Circular References option, and other tips and trick for figuring out how to make that error message go away.

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Popular Summit 2012 Sessions Repeated!

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Check your Summit Scheduler for these popular sessions, which are being repeated to ensure more people can attend. You can sign up now!

In the Analytics track:

Wed 11:30am – S109 Predictive marketing: No PhD in statistics required!Wed 2pm – S104 Trials and tribulations—tough verdicts in cross-channel attributionWed 3:30pm – S103 Introducing Adobe Discover 3: Bye-bye page pathing, hello sequential analysisThurs 11am – S102: Adobe SiteCatalyst 15: Advanced approaches to achieving data-driven euphoriaThur 1:30pm – S110 Analytics action heroes: Learn digital kung-fu from analytics mastersThur 2:45pm – S101 Adobe SiteCatalyst: The EssentialsCareersPermissions & TrademarksEULAsReport PiracyContact AdobeSecurityCopyright © 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved.
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Most popular posts at the Office Blog for 2011

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A blog post can take on a life of its own. Something we wrote yesterday can disappear as the blog rolls on. Something written a few years ago can live on as search engines find it and customers click on it. Here are the 10 most popular posts at the Office Blog in 2011 and the reason you might want to catch-up with them.

1. Maybe I shouldn't have sent that email

You forgot to put some important information in an email you just sent to a gigantic list. You accidently sent that obscenity-laden email to your boss instead of your ex. No matter the reason, recalling an email in Outlook can be helpful. And perhaps save your job. Quick! Recall that email message as published April 5, 2011.

2. You want your Excel Chart to show lots of data

Data is key and visual data-telling a story without a lot of numbers-is desirable in this information-overloaded age. Here's how to stick two sets of data in an Excel chart without cluttering up the chart.  Combining Chart Types, Adding a Second Axis was published on August 24, 2007.

3. Storing and sending things in the cloud got easier

An update last November to Office Web Apps and SkyDrive-Microsoft's free cloud service--made it much easier to share and organize your documents. And you get 25GB of free storage on SkyDrive that you can access from any virtually computer (or smartphone) connected to the Internet. New SkyDrive updates make sharing Office docs easier was published November 29, 2011, and includes a video that helps explain it all.

4. You want to view a PowerPoint presentation-and don't have PowerPoint

Microsoft Office creates free viewers that let you view Excel, Word, or PowerPoint documents no matter what type of computer you're using. Since we first published this blog post, we created another, easy way to send a PowerPoint presentation to folks who don't have PowerPoint--it's called the PowerPoint Office Web Apps. However, the viewer still works fine. PowerPoint 2010 Viewer - Available for Download was published May 13, 2010.

5. Why not keep up on social media while working in Outlook?

As you read an email, the Outlook Social Connector displays other emails, meetings, and documents from the person who sent it to you, and if you want, their social media posts from Facebook, LinkedIn and more. How to install the Outlook Social Connector (Office Casual video) was posted August 24, 2010.

6. You need help with mail merge

Mail merge remains one of the most popular topics on our blog. This post shows you in-depth how to do mail merge in Outlook 2007. Since we published this, we have created a step-by-step guide for Outlook 2007 and 2010, which we highly recommend. Read about that guide, Mail Merge Made Easy, or view this original post, Mail Merge: How to send a personalized e-mail to many people at once which was published September 22, 2008.

7. Dang: where's is that email?

When you want to find something on the internet, you turn to a search engine. But when you want to find an email from last week, I bet you endlessly scroll through messages. These powerful tools in Outlook let you quickly find any message. Can't find that email message? These three tips can help was published November 12, 2010.

8. You want to get head and shoulders above Headers and Footers

The skinny on how to add headers, footers, and page numbers to Word documents. Headers and footers and page numbers, oh my was published July 19, 2010.

9. You want a better way to view Excel numbers

Conditional formatting make the important numbers stand out so things like top trends or outliers can be found in a glance. This blog post explains the details about the new Excel 2010 additions to this tool. More Conditional Formatting Features in Excel 2010 was published August 9, 2009.

10. You have more than one Exchange account, and want to see them all in Outlook

This post shows you how to add and link multiple inboxes in Outlook when they're all running on a Microsoft Exchange server. Multiple Exchange Accounts in Outlook 2010 was published August 25, 2009.  (And, BTW, you can also add Internet email accounts such as Hotmail, Gmail, and others via the Outlook Hotmail Connector.)

Do you have a favorite blog post? Let us know.

--Doug Thomas

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Five most popular posts on the blog of Excel in 2011

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It's still January. There's still time to share the most popular posts on the Excel blog in 2011.  Thanks for reading them!

Can't remember all those Excel keyboard shortcuts? Now you don't have to!
There are a lot shortcuts in Excel of keyword. You can scroll through a long list of them on Office.com, or you can download quick reference cards from our blog and pin them to your corkboard. There are cards for keyboard shortcuts with the CTRL keys, keyboard shortcuts with function keysand Miscellaneous shortcuts.Staying on budget might be easier than you think
The end of January marks the beginning of procrastination for preparing your taxes. This Excel budget template could help.A capital idea: changing case in Excel (video)
Unlike Word, Excel does not have a change case button for magically switching between uppercase, lowercase, and proper case. But you can use functions to covert text from one case to another, or even a macro. Watch these videos by MVP Bill Jelen to learn about the different techniques. Excel table or Pivot Table?
In Excel there are tables and then there are Pivot Tables. This post explains what each does and when to use one or the other. How to do percentages in Excel
In sorting through the search terms people use to find information, we always find lots of variations on the word "percentages." This post walks you through how to calculate percentages in Excel. (And it points you to videos that offer quick refreshers on the underlying math.)

When we looked back to see which post received the most comments, it not all that surprising.  It what the one when we got to hear from all of you:

Your call: what would you like US to post about on the Excel blog?

As start this new year we (ok, it started four weeks ago), we want to hear what you'd like US to write.  So leave a comment and we'll do our best to write a post to answer it.

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