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Part 1 – Announcing Babylon.js 6.0
by Guest Thomas Lucchini- 0 replies
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Our mission is to build one of the most powerful, beautiful, simple, and open web rendering engines in the world, and we are excited to announce the next step forward in that journey: the release of Babylon.js 6.0. [embed] ]View: https://youtu.be/nsqpuRCQV28[/embed] Babylon.js 6.0 brings a smorgasbord of performance improvements, rendering enhancements, and exciting new features that you will NOT want to miss! Let’s get started by talking about one of the most exciting things to come to Babylon.js in its entire 10-year history! [HEADING=2]Havok Physics in Babylon.js[/HEADING] We are very proud and excited to announce that the world famous Havok team is bringing a ne…
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Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22526
by Guest Brandon LeBlanc- 0 replies
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Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22526 to the Dev Channel. [HEADING=1]TL;DR[/HEADING] This build has a good set of changes and improvements as well as fixes. Please be sure to read the list of known issues below! [HEADING=1]Changes and Improvements[/HEADING] We’re experimenting with showing ALT + TAB as windowed instead of full screen for some Insiders. We have added support for wideband speech when using Apple AirPods products (AirPods, AirPods Pro, or AirPods Max), improving audio quality for voice calls. Starting with Build 22518, Credential Guard is now enabled by default on Windows 11 Enterprise (E3 and E5) li…
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New HP All-in-One and desktop PCs bring people together in hybrid work environments
by Guest Athima Chansanchai, Writer- 0 replies
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In the modern hybrid world, the need for people to work collaboratively and securely continues to expand. To provide more choices as it meets those needs, HP has introduced new commercial All-in-One (AiO) and desktop PCs, expanding its portfolio of PCs designed to empower workforces and IT departments in the office or at home. The HP EliteOne 800 G9 AiO Desktop PC Enhanced by HP Presence, powered by the latest Intel processors and Windows 11, is aiming to be the command center for your hybrid workspace. Video conferencing is pivotal to making that successful. This AiO comes equipped to deliver a smooth video experience through a 5-megapixel camera (with HP Auto Frame to …
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Create Next Generation Experiences at Scale with Windows
by Guest Panos Panay, Chief Product Officer, Windows and- 0 replies
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As a team, we’re thrilled to spend time with the developer community at Microsoft Build. Windows is a place where people come to create, to learn, and to connect. One of the most energizing aspects of Windows is how the developer community has been engaging with the platform, bringing value to over a billion people across the planet. Windows is the platform for the world’s innovation, and developers are central to unlocking the next wave of experiences that people will need today and in the future. This is what drives us as a team to innovate and empower developers with the tools to dream big and turn their ideas into reality. Today, we are sharing new updates to Windows …
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Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.5025 (KB5053661) to the Beta Channel. Please note this build will only be provided to Windows Insiders in the Beta Channel who did not upgrade to receiving updates based on Windows 11, version 24H2. Changes in Beta Channel builds and updates are documented in two buckets: new features, improvements, and fixes that are being gradually rolled out for Insiders who have turned on the toggle to get the latest updates as they are available (via Settings > Windows Update*) and then new features, improvements, and fixes rolling out to everyone in the Beta Channel. For more information, see t…
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Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22523
by Guest Brandon LeBlanc- 0 replies
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Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22523 to the Dev Channel. [HEADING=1]TL;DR[/HEADING] ARM64 PCs will be offered this build. We are providing ISOs for this build which can be downloaded here. This will be our final flight for the holidays. See you in 2022! [HEADING=1]Changes and Improvements[/HEADING] We have rolled out snap groups in ALT + TAB and Task View just like when you hover open apps on the taskbar, and you see them there, to all Insiders in the Dev Channel. When File Explorer is open to This PC, the add media server and (if appropriate) remove media server option is now available when you click the “…” in…
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What’s new for Microsoft Edge at Build 2022
by Guest Microsoft Edge Team- 0 replies
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Another year around the sun, and we’re back at Build to talk about—you guessed it—what’s new for developers with Microsoft Edge. We started this journey 2.5 years ago when we released the latest version of Microsoft Edge built on the Chromium open-source engine and we can’t wait to talk about what’s new and coming up. But while the Microsoft Edge journey is just beginning, another storied journey is ending—in less than a month, on June 15, 2022, Internet Explorer 11 will be retired and officially go out of support. Remember the original Internet Explorer? It just may have been the first way you accessed the internet. Since then, Internet Explorer has helped bring the worl…
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Minecraft New Year’s celebration begins: Sale starts Dec. 21
by Guest Steve Clarke, Writer- 0 replies
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The Minecraft team has announced that its New Year’s Celebration is now officially in session. "Go! Rejoice! Check out Minecraft Marketplace, try on some skins, play the maps and have fun – in whatever order you like," Sofia Dankis declared in a post on Minecraft.net. Throughout the celebration, Minecraft will also be releasing free maps for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition and Minecraft: Java Edition, as well as daily free Character Creator items that start dropping on Dec. 21. You can find the Bedrock: Edition maps in Minecraft Marketplace, along with a sale that will take place between Dec. 21 and Jan. 4. It will include giveaways, items at 33% off and daily doorbusters at 7…
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Welcoming AI to the Microsoft Store on Windows
by Guest Zahara Kondo- 0 replies
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We wouldn’t be where we are today without the developer community. Together, we’ve been on a journey to reimagine an open app store and provide a better experience for Windows customers. It’s because of this partnership that the Microsoft Store on Windows is now used by over one billion customers with more than 50% of new Windows 11 customers engaging with the Microsoft Store in the first 30 days. The momentum of Windows customers is a testament to the growth in quality content from our passionate community of developers, who have more than doubled the number of Win32 and PWA apps since last year. Engaging PWAs like Snapchat and ESPN, sophisticated native apps like Spark …
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Microsoft Store grows with the developer community
by Guest katherineb- 0 replies
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We are thankful and humbled by the response and feedback from the developer community since we announced the new Microsoft Store on Windows last year and our Open App Store principles in February. Today, we would like to celebrate the developers that joined us on this journey and share new discoverability opportunities on Windows, the launch of Microsoft Store Ads to help developers reach the right customers at the right time, and new tools for Win32 and PWA developers. Over the past year, Microsoft Store welcomed thousands of great apps like ACDSee Gemstone, Adobe Express, Audacity, Canva, Course Hero, Discord, Drawboard PDF, Epic Games, Firefox, Luminar Neo & Lumina…
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Minecraft Legends action strategy game unveiled for launch in 2023
by Guest Steve Clarke, Editor- 0 replies
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At the June 12 Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase, Mojang Studios unveiled Minecraft Legends, an all-new action strategy game developed in partnership with Blackbird Interactive. The game is scheduled to launch in 2023 on PC, console and cloud, and will be available with Xbox Game Pass on day one. "Minecraft Legends takes players to the Minecraft universe in a fun and unique new way, as they lead their allies in heroic battles to defend the Overworld," writes Dennis Ries, Minecraft Legends Executive Producer, in a post on Xbox Wire. "Players will discover a gentle land, both familiar and mysterious, full of lush biomes and rich resources. But this beautiful land is on the…
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Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26227 (Canary Channel)
by Guest Amanda Langowski- 0 replies
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Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26227 to the Canary Channel. Developers, please note that for a short period of time, we will not be releasing an SDK for builds we flight to the Canary Channel. [HEADING=1]Changes and Improvements[/HEADING] [HEADING=2][Copilot in Windows*][/HEADING] As part of this update, we’re also evolving the Copilot* experience on Windows as an app that will be pinned to the taskbar. This enables users to get the benefits of a traditional app experience, including the ability to resize, move, and snap the window – feedback we’ve heard from users throughout the preview of Copilot in Windows. This mod…
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Microsoft Edge Workspaces public preview is now available
by Guest Microsoft Edge Team- 0 replies
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Last fall, at Ignite, we announced the enterprise public preview of Microsoft Edge Workspaces. Since then, we’ve been hard at work to make it available more broadly and allow you to try Edge Workspaces in your home life. Today, we are excited to announce that we’re opening Edge Workspaces for a limited public preview. We want to continue to build out this game-changing, collaborative feature, and we cannot do it without valuable feedback from Edge users. Today, we want to share what you can do with Edge Workspaces and how it can help you get more done, together. We’ll also share how you can join the public preview and be one of the first to try Edge Workspaces. [HEADING…
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Bringing the power of AI to Windows 11 – unlocking a new era of productivity for customers and developers with Windows Copilot and Dev Home
by Guest Panos Panay, Chief Product Officer, Windows and- 0 replies
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The team and I are pumped to be back at Build with the developer community this year. Over the last year, Windows has continued to see incredible growth fueled by Windows 11 adoption. In fact, one of the most exciting areas driving that growth for Windows has been developers themselves, with a 24% YoY increase in monthly devices used for development. AI is the defining technology of our time and developers are at the forefront of this transformation. With the right tools we can empower developers and our shared customers to shape the future and leave their mark on the world. We are just starting to see the incredible impact AI is having across industries and in our own da…
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Microsoft Store grows with the developer community
by Guest katherineb- 0 replies
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We are thankful and humbled by the response and feedback from the developer community since we announced the new Microsoft Store on Windows last year and our Open App Store principles in February. Today, we would like to celebrate the developers that joined us on this journey and share new discoverability opportunities on Windows, the launch of Microsoft Store Ads to help developers reach the right customers at the right time, and new tools for Win32 and PWA developers. Over the past year, Microsoft Store welcomed thousands of great apps like ACDSee Gemstone, Adobe Express, Audacity, Canva, Course Hero, Discord, Drawboard PDF, Epic Games, Firefox, Luminar Neo & Lumina…
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Ark 2 preview unveils the future of survival games
by Guest Steve Clarke, Editor- 0 replies
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Jeremy Stieglitz and Jesse Rapczak, co-creators of Ark and co-founders of Studio Wildcard, previewed Ark 2 at the June 12 Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase. They announced the game will launch next year on PC and console, available with Xbox Game Pass on day one. "With Ark 2, we’re seeking not only to enhance the game’s narrative and world-building, but also retouch and improve on all aspects of what constitutes an Ark game," the duo write in a post on Xbox Wire. "Foremost among these redesigns are the core player mechanics. In the sequel, which is third-person only, controls and movement for both players and creatures have been completely redesigned." Head over to Xbox …
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Microsoft Photos: Migrating from UWP to Windows App SDK
by Guest Adam Gritt- 0 replies
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The Microsoft Photos App team recently released a major update, switching platforms from UWP to Windows App SDK. This blog post documents our experience switching platforms, including some impactful benefits and some interesting technical challenges. The new Photos application is already fully rolled out to Windows Insiders and is now rolling out to Retail customers starting with version 2024.11050.3002.0 and above. [HEADING=1]Concurrent Development & Replatforming[/HEADING] As one of the most frequently used apps, we're continually releasing new features such as Slideshow, Background Removal and Generative Erase. Maintaining the ability to ship new features like th…
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At Microsoft, we believe the future of AI is happening now — spanning from the cloud to the edge. Our vision is bold: to build Windows as the ultimate platform for AI innovation, where intelligence isn’t just in the cloud but seamlessly woven throughout the system, silicon and hardware at the edge. Building on our recent announcement of bringing NPU-optimized versions of DeepSeek-R1 1.5B distilled model directly to Copilot+ PCs, we’re taking the next step forward with the availability of DeepSeek R1 7B & 14B distilled models for Copilot+ PCs via Azure AI Foundry. This milestone reinforces our commitment to delivering cutting-edge AI capabilities that are fast, efficie…
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Unlocking the end-to-end Windows AI developer experience using ONNX runtime and Olive
by Guest Jeff Mendenhall- 0 replies
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At the Microsoft 2023 Build conference, Panos Panay announced ONNX Runtime as the gateway to Windows AI. Using ONNX Runtime gives third party developers the same tools we use internally to run AI models on any Windows or other devices across CPU, GPU, NPU, or hybrid with Azure. We are also introducing Olive, a toolchain we created to ease the burden on developers to optimize models for varied Windows and other devices. Both ONNX Runtime and Olive contribute to the velocity of getting your AI models deployed into apps. [HEADING=2]What is ONNX Runtime?[/HEADING] ONNX Runtime is a cross-platform, cross-IHV inferencing engine that allows developers to inference across pl…
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Minecraft Marketplace celebrates 5 years with 5 weeks of freebies and fun
by Guest Steve Clarke, Editor- 0 replies
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Minecraft is celebrating its Marketplace hitting the five-year mark by launching a five-week festival. “And because it’s a celebration, there will be gifts!” writes Sophie Austin on Minecraft.net. “As well as being able to nab limited-time discounts on popular content from across the years, you’ll also be able to get your hands on freebies, kicking off today with a spectacular free adventure from Jigarbov Productions: Marketplace Creator Tycoon!” Head over to Minecraft.net for details about Marketplace Creator Tycoon and what else is coming in the celebration that’s underway between now and July 12. Continue reading...
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Releasing Windows 11 Build 22000.776 to the Release Preview Channel
by Guest Brandon LeBlanc- 0 replies
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Hello Windows Insiders, today we’re releasing Windows 11 Build 22000.776 (KB5014668) to Insiders in the Release Preview Channel on Windows 11 (original release). This update includes the following improvements: New! We added IP address auditing for incoming Windows Remote Management (WinRM) connections in security event 4262 and WinRM event 91. This We fixed an issue that fails to log the source IP address and machine name for a remote PowerShell connection. New! We added Server Message Block (SMB) redirector (RDR) specific public File System Control (FSCTL) code FSCTL_LMR_QUERY_INFO. New! We made the SMB client and SMB server cipher suite order configurable using P…
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Announcing new Windows 11 innovation, with features for secure, efficient IT management and intuitive user experience
by Guest Steve Clarke, Editor- 0 replies
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Technology is creating amazing opportunities for our industry and the world, and Windows 11 is at the center of innovation with new experiences that transform how we interact with the Windows PC and each other. With Windows 11, we’re seeing record engagement, our highest customer satisfaction over any previous version of Windows in the U.S., and accelerated growth in commercial deployments. In fact, we recently shared as part of our latest earnings report that over 90% of Fortune 500 companies are currently trialing or have already deployed Windows 11.¹ In February, we brought the new AI-powered Bing to the taskbar and other features to improve the way people get things d…
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Collaborating with the Office Performance team for better web performance tools
by Guest Microsoft Edge Team- 0 replies
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On the Microsoft Edge team, we spend a lot of time working with product teams across Microsoft to support them in building great web experiences, and jointly raising the bar for how these apps perform for everyone, whatever device they may use. In this post, we’ll review some new DevTools capabilities we have recently built in partnership with the Office Performance team, which enable concrete performance improvements in production web experiences. There are many ways to measure the complexity of a web app and its code base, but when it comes to performance, the following indicators tend to play an important role: The number of nodes in the DOM tree. The number of styl…
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Fly over stunning sights with free World Update XI: Canada for Microsoft Flight Simulator
by Guest Steve Clarke, Editor- 0 replies
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World Update XI: Canada is now available free to all owners of Microsoft Flight Simulator. To get the update, simply update your account, download World Update XI from the in-game marketplace, and prepare to be enchanted by the sights of Canada from the air. "In creating World Update XI: Canada, the Microsoft Flight Simulator team processed troves of its latest geospatial data, including digital elevation models, satellite imagery and aerial photography," writes Jorg Neumann, Head of Microsoft Flight Simulator, on Xbox Wire. "Complementing the data, models and imagery, the update highlights 12 urban regions enhanced with the latest photogrammetry data and features 87 hand…
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Previewing More Copilot+ Experiences with Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel
by Guest Amanda Langowski- 0 replies
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Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.2510 (KB5048780) to the Dev Channel. With this update, we are previewing new experiences for AMD and Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs including Recall and more and expanding Click to Do (Preview) beyond Recall in Windows. [HEADING=1]Join the Dev Channel on your Copilot+ PC[/HEADING] Here is how you can join the Dev Channel on your Copilot+ PC today ( : Register for the Windows Insider Program here via our website with your Microsoft account or Microsoft Entra ID. This should be the same account you use to sign into your Copilot+ PC with. After you have registered, go to Settings > Wind…