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Windows Insiders can now try out an early preview of a feature called controller bar. Controller bar is a preview of a new view of Xbox Game Bar that provides easy, controller-friendly access to recently played games and game launchers. Invoke the controller bar when you’re not already in a game, by pressing the Xbox button on your controller. The controller bar opens when you pair or connect a controller to your Windows 11 PC running the latest Insider Preview build in the Dev and Beta Channels. Your most recently played games and installed game launchers are just a button press away. Invoke the controller bar when you’re not already in a game, by pressing the Xbox button on your controller. When you are playing a game, the Xbox...

Our mission is to create one of the most powerful, simple, and aesthetically pleasing web rendering engines in the world. Fueled by our passion to make it completely open and free for everyone. Today is an important milestone for the Babylon.js platform and we are thrilled to announce the launch of the next version of the Babylon.js platform, Babylon.js 5.0. ]View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zELYw2qEUjI Babylon.js 5.0 is quite simply the biggest, boldest, and most ambitious update to the platform to date. From full support of WebGPU, to the ability to deploy experiences across platforms with Native Capabilities, to more tools, features, and improvements than you can count — Babylon.js 5.0 ushers in the next generation of web...

Ramon Ray’s first foray into small business was as a computer consultant, more than two decades ago. The lifelong Windows user – a self-identified geek – didn’t know why he was so drawn to technology from such an early age, but he built do-it-yourself electronic kits from Radio Shack (such as transistor radios) as a kid. His dad being an electrician also probably influenced him too. His comfort level with modern tools went hand in hand with a willingness to take on risk – something he compares with free climbing. Ray – who grew up in the Midwest, “where neighbors nod at each other and say hello” and later, New York City – projects an extrovert’s comfort with events and public speaking and pivoted toward remote versions of both during...

Styling <select> elements consistently across browsers has long been a difficult task. While it is now possible to style the button part of a <select>, styling its contents – the box that contains the list of options, and the options themselves – remains very limited. These limitations often push web developers to use libraries that provide custom select-like controls. Unfortunately using a library comes with important implications: including it in your project increases complexity, your customers will need to download the library code on each visit, and the custom select might not support keyboard navigation or the same accessibility semantics that built-in <select>s do. In this article, we’ll review the current state of styling...

A group of users were trying to implement a simple, terminal-based video game and found the performance under Windows Terminal to be entirely unsuitable for such a task. The performance issue can be replicated by repeatedly drawing a “rainbow” and measuring how many frames per second (FPS) we can achieve. The one below has 20 distinct colors and can be drawn at around 30 FPS on my Surface Book with an Intel i7-6700HQ CPU. However, if we draw the same rainbow with 21 or more distinct colors it would drop down to less than 10 FPS. This drop is consistent and doesn’t get worse even with thousands of distinct colors. Initial investigation with Windows Performance Analyzer Initially the culprit wasn’t immediately obvious of course. Does...