Acamar Films and Sambro International have announced a new three-year partnership which will see a range of arts and crafts and outdoor toy products hit the market.

While Windows 7 is stealing most of the headlines this week, Microsoft -- and one of its MVPs -- are also rolling out some new developer toys.

The mysterious Windows 8.1 with Bing build that popped up last week is Microsoft's experiment in subsidizing Windows with services, sources say.