Windows Weekly 337

Microsoft abandons stack ranking, the CEO hunt continues, Xbox One talk, and more.

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Links

• Microsoft does away with stack ranking
• Microsoft Abandons Controversial Employee Rating System
• Microsoft's IE chief to take on a new role
• Microsoft's Rudder moves to new advanced strategy post
• Microsoft Surface Firmware Updates for November 2013
• Dell Venue 8 Pro Review
• Android Pushes Past 80% Market Share While Windows Phone Shipments Leap 156.0% Year Over Year in the Third Quarter, According to IDC
• Microsoft debuts its cloud-based complement to Visual Studio
• Microsoft and Xamarin tighten mobile app-development ties
• Facebook login available for Microsoft's Windows 8, Windows Phone 8
• Amazon takes Virtual Desktop to the Cloud
• An Amazon Blueprint for Microsoft's Devices and Services Vision
• Microsoft readies 'Mohoro' Windows desktop as a service
• Xbox One + SkyDrive
• Windows 8.1 Tip: Use Bing to Make an Xbox Music Playlist
• Vine
• Nokia Refocus
• Asphalt 8: Airborne for Windows
• Asphalt 8: Airborne for Windows Phone 8
• Exchange Server: The Road Ahead
• Microsoft shows off its next-generation 'Project N' compiler technology
• The Men's Room Ale - Elysian Brewing Company
• Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution