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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 & Luminar AI, Mailchimp, Meitu XiuXiu, Microsoft Teams, OpenOffice...

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 world online, supplied endless videos and memes, and even helped you...

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 11 and the Microsoft Store for developers, including: New app...

It’s Microsoft Build! We have a Windows Terminal Preview release for you focused on fixing bugs and improving quality. This release also migrates Windows Terminal to version 1.13, which contains the new features defined in this previous blog post. As always, you can install Windows Terminal Preview and Windows Terminal from the Microsoft Store or from the GitHub releases page. Let’s dive into what’s new. The minimum supported version of Windows 10 for Windows Terminal 1.13+ has been increased from 18362 (19H1) to 19041 (20H1). Experimental background image for window Have you wanted to have your panes split over one background image, rather than each pane having its own background image? Well today is your lucky day! @nico-abram has...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 10 21H2 Build 19044.1739 (KB5014023) to the Release Preview Channel for those Insiders who are on Windows 10. This update includes the following improvements: New! We introduced new sorting version 6.4.3, which addresses the sorting issue that affects Japanese half-width katakana. We prevented users from bypassing forced enrollment by disconnecting from the internet when they sign into Azure Active Directory (AAD). We fixed an issue that might run an AnyCPU application as a 32-bit process. We fixed an issue that prevents Azure Desired State Configuration (DSC) scenarios that have multiple partial configurations from working as expected. We fixed an issue that affects remote...