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Summary: Use Windows PowerShell 4.0 to debug a workflow.

In this edition of Weekend Reading, we’ve got stories on the momentum building behind Windows Store and Windows Phone Store app downloads, how Bing broke out of the (search) box in 2013 and a Microsoft researcher who uses data to power his predictions.

Summary: Guest blogger and security expert, Yuri Diogenes, continues his series about enabling BYOD.

By Brendon Lynch, Chief Privacy Officer

In our data-rich world, there’s mounting concern that today’s privacy models and legislative frameworks are less effective in terms of protecting people’s privacy than when they were developed. It’s time to evolve our collective thinking about how societies can protect the privacy of individuals while providing for responsible, beneficial data use.    More >>

Summary:  Use Windows PowerShell to discover console color assignment.

Coreinfo v3.21: CoreInfo is a command-line tool for reporting processor topology, NUMA performance, and processor features. The v3.21 release adds microcode reporting.

If you were looking for a great way to learn about Azure Web Sites, you’re going to love the new book by Tejaswi Redkar. Tejaswi is colleague of mine and serves as Director of business products at Microsoft. He’s been around for quite a bit and is a leading expert on many topics, and that reflects well in the book.

The following post is from Jonathan Adashek, General Manager, Communications Strategy, Sales & Marketing Services Group, Microsoft. It was originally published on The Fire Hose.