Today Microsoft has announced on the Office Blog that OneNote 2013 has moved to a completely free download. Now, for those scratching your head, yes, it was free before. However there were restrictions. Today in their announcement Microsoft eliminated all of those restrictions and the full blown version of OneNote 2013 is completely free and full featured.
Age of Empires Castle Siege for Windows Phone has received another massive update today bringing further game play improvements along with stability and other performance fixes. The update, version 1.5.1.105 for those keeping score at home, has a huge amount of changes that improves everything from how units perform and are organized to visual fixes to notification improvements. The game is an Xbox game so you have achievements available throughout the game as you play. You can read my review of Age of Empire Castle Siege to see my thoughts on the game (hint: I love it!)
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There are a lot of new features in Windows 10, many of which we saw during the Windows 10 event last month. However there is one new feature that wasn’t mentioned and that is the power down Reminder feature. Today under Windows Phone 8.1, when you power off your device (press and hold the power button then swipe down on your screen), you are given a “goodbye” message. Under Windows 10 for Phone however this changes to provide you a bit more information.
One of the changes that I outlined in my initial thoughts on Windows 10 for Phone is the semi-transparent tiles on the Start screen. As I discussed with my friend Mike Temporale (he runs MobileJaw) yesterday on Twitter, I personally like them as it was one of the aesthetic things about iOS 8 that I enjoyed in my walk through the iOS wilderness. Mike however isn’t so sold. Well Mike and others who aren’t 100% sold, take heart. Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore in a Tweet last night confirmed that Transparent Live Tiles like we have in Windows Phone 8.1 is returning in a later build of Windows 10 for Phone.
@OpenPlumbob yes… Were planning to include both the “full background” and “in the tiles” options.
— joebelfiore (@joebelfiore) February 13, 2015
Microsoft has released a minor update to the MSN Apps for Windows Phone, bringing anything from bug fixes to minor improvements to the apps. The new update across all the apps, version 3.1.4.481 for those keeping score at home, can all be found in the Windows Phone Store. The apps impacted are MSN Health & Fitness, MSN Money, MSN News, MSN Sports, MSN Travel and MSN Weather.