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Howdy everyone! Shawn here. I've used Windows all my life. I'd love to get better at using Windows for personal and professional success. So, I'm here. The forum owner is also a friend, and I help him on another forum he runs, and he helps me on one I run. Other than that - I'm a 40-year-old married guy from Southern Illinois. I am a surveillance investigator and really into the outdoors!

We are thrilled to announce the 2024 Microsoft Store App Awards, a testament to our continued commitment to honor and celebrate developers for their exceptional quality, creativity and originality of Windows apps and games. Whether you're a developer or a fan of a fantastic app, we invite you to submit your nomination. If you don’t have your app on Microsoft Store yet, it’s not too late! Publish your app by Sept. 15, 2024, and participate in the awards to compete for incredible prizes, like Surface Pro Limited Edition Copilot+ PCs*. The Microsoft Store offers developers a unique opportunity to reach a vast audience of over a billion Windows users. By distributing your…

Passkeys on Windows just got easier! As part of Microsoft’s vision for a passwordless future we are working to make passkeys on Windows simple and intuitive. Passkeys are safer and easier to use than passwords, which are vulnerable to phishing and data breaches. That is why, in support of a passwordless future, we partnered in the FIDO alliance with other platforms in supporting passkeys. As part of our cross-industry commitment, we launched new native support for cross-device authentication and an updated experience to help users along the journey from website to platform. Continuing that journey at Authenticate 2024 we are introducing the following, which will be availa…

We are proud to announce that version 1.6 of the Windows App SDK is now available! Whether you’re looking for the incredible performance boost and footprint reduction of Native AOT support, enhancements for deploying your package, or quality of life improvements for controls like PipsPager and RatingControl, WinAppSDK 1.6 offers a raft of new features, performance boosts and structural changes that enable you to make your native Windows apps better than ever before. The Windows App SDK provides a rich set of APIs and tools to help you build beautiful and fast Windows desktop apps, including any C++ Win32 or C# .NET app. You can harness the modern controls and polish of W…

AI is transforming the way we interact with technology, enabling new and improved experiences across a variety of scenarios. DirectML empowers developers to bring their AI innovations to Windows and utilize local hardware acceleration to scale across the breadth of Windows devices. Today, we are excited to share how DirectML continues to expand platform support for NPUs on Copilot+ PCs and WebNN. DirectML now supports Copilot+ PCs, powered by Snapdragon® X Elite Compute Platform We are thrilled to announce that DirectML now supports Copilot+ PCs, powered by Qualcomm® Hexagon NPU in the Snapdragon® X Elite Compute Platform. Copilot+ PCs bring exceptional performan…

Windows is an open platform that enables all categories of applications to thrive. From individual developers to distributed projects, open-source initiatives and large companies, the vibrant developer community is building innovative, engaging and practical apps for Windows users around the world. And the best place for users to discover that content is through the Microsoft Store on Windows. You can find more information on our commitment to developers, and how to onboard into the Microsoft Store. We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2024 Microsoft Store Awards! This year, we invited nominations from our developer community and selected winners across 14 cate…

In this article Prerequisites Set up a Service Provider in Terminal Chat Examples for using Terminal Chat Terminal Chat is a new experimental feature that enables you to integrate Windows Terminal Canary with your preferred AI service. Once Terminal Chat is connected to your AI service provider (GitHub Copilot, Azure OpenAI, or OpenAI), you can ask questions specific to the shell you are using (PowerShell, CMD, WSL Ubuntu, Azure Cloud Shell, etc) while staying in the context of your terminal. Terminal Chat can: Provide command syntax and descriptions Explain command line error messages Send code suggestio…

Client apps are often the first interaction users have with your services, whether those are cloud native intelligent apps, web-hosted backends or business data. They set the tone for user experience and can offer personalized interactions right from the start. With over 1.5 billion Windows devices worldwide, you have an opportunity to build beautiful, responsive and engaging user experiences that target these devices. Regardless of whether you are a web developer or a native app developer, you likely want to reach the most client devices possible with great user experiences in the most efficient way possible. Developing great client apps helps you connect with users, sca…

October was an exciting month of amazing showcases and announcements for applications leveraging the power of the NPU on the new Copilot+ PCs to deploy their AI innovations on Windows. Windows’ diverse hardware ecosystem empowers developers with a range of options at their fingertips to develop and deploy AI. From client to web apps, DirectML, foundational to Windows Copilot Runtime, aims to uniquely simplify how developers can scale their AI innovations across Windows. Through a single, cross-hardware DirectX API, DirectML works across different hardware architectures, local device accelerators and machine learning frameworks, supporting an open platform for AI on Window…

Your feedback matters – each week, we get thousands of feedback submissions that we triage, categorize and prioritize. We love the enthusiasm our customers and developers show daily for the Store and all its apps and games – and as product makers, we take that energy forward every day into our craft. Our ultimate goal is to build the best product for you. Today, we’re excited to recap some important quality updates to the Microsoft Store on Windows that we’ve rolled out over the last few months. Upping the ante on performance We have some meaningful improvements to share from our recent work on performance. Overall Store launch time has been reduced …

Your feedback matters – each week, we get thousands of feedback submissions that we triage, categorize and prioritize. We love the enthusiasm our customers and developers show daily for the Store and all its apps and games – and as product makers, we take that energy forward every day into our craft. Our ultimate goal is to build the best product for you. Today, we’re excited to recap some important quality updates to the Microsoft Store on Windows that we’ve rolled out over the last few months. Upping the ante on performance We have some meaningful improvements to share from our recent work on performance. Overall Store launch time has been reduced …

*Note: Hello Everyone. I won't be in Windows BBS, after Jan 2022, FOR 2 YEARS. I'm Banned to use my Computer for the next 2 Years, as the O/L Exam. So, Let's See, if I'm Fortunate to Turn on my Computer on the Vacation. See you all in 2024. Bye! Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year...!*

I'm using Windows 11, but it still shows Windows 10 for the OS, in my Profile. It's better if it's Updated. And the Browser too should be Updated. I'm using the New Microsoft Edge (Beta Version), but it still shows the old Logo...!

Thank you for adding more Smilies:jumping:. It's also better if there are hands pointing up, down, left, and right too...!

I added new forums for Windows 11 and also Windows 2019 Server. Seems I miss that one when it was first released. I also archived the Windows XP and Windows Server 2008 boards. They are both EOL.

I'm Desandu Hettiarachchi, from Sri Lanka...!

I have added a new default style. The old style was not compatible with the new software. I will also be adding a dark style for those that prefer and darker style. If you find any bugs with the style let me know.

I have updated the forum software to the newest version. If you find any problems let me know. Next up is a facelift. Site will get a new style in the next few days.

Suggestion: Now Windows 11 is released. So, there should be a Board for Windows 11 too. Then users that have installed Windows 11, can use that Board to share their questions...! Thank you, Desandu Hettiarachchi, Sri Lanka.