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We're introducing our extension performance detector to help you learn how extensions might impact browsing performance. Installing extensions can make you more productive and help you personalize Microsoft Edge to your needs. However, if you notice some delay in loading pages, this might be due to extensions which run extra lines of web code to personalize the page for you. Microsoft Edge can now detect when these delays become noticeable and persistent. We want to help you make decisions about the extensions you use if performance issues stemming from extensions start slowing you down. Edge's extensions performance detector will begin rolling out to some users with Edge Canary 130. Edge will start alerting you about slowdowns if...

Very few, if any, game studios have as many challenges as GSC Game World did while trying to finish a long-awaited sequel. “War Game: The Making of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2” is a documentary focused on the Ukrainian-based team and how they’ve overcome obstacle after obstacle, including working in a warzone and moving studios across countries. Variety previewed the documentary, which is scheduled to release in early October. Directed by Andrew Stephan, “War Game” centers on the very personal stories of creative director Maria Grygorovych and her team. Grygorovych emphasized to Variety how “scary” it was to agree to the proposal from Xbox to make the film. “It wasn’t my dream to do this film. But I really think it’s important to share,”...

Over at Xbox Wire, editor Mike Nelson shares insights on the ways Ara: History Untold differentiates itself from other grand strategy games. “Elements like crafting, simultaneous turns and a diverse group of well-known and lesser-known historical figures are just some of the ways it stands apart,” he writes. “In a typical turn-based grand strategy game, players take turns sequentially – you can see what your opponent is planning and you’re given a chance to counter that move and vice versa. The difference for Ara is that it will process all those actions at once – this is what the team is referring to when talking about Simultaneous Turns; it’s simultaneously resolving every player’s turn at the same time.” The game launches Sept. 24 on...

The Interop 2025 call for proposals is now open! If there's an area of the web platform you'd like to see included in next year's Interop project, please submit it via the submission form. Since its inception in 2021, the Interop project has brought many improvements to the web platform, which address some of the most important pain points that web developers have been telling us about. Earlier this year we launched the Interop 2024 project, together with Apple, Bocoup, Google, Igalia, and Mozilla and a lot of work has already gone in. Focus areas such as CSS Nesting, font-size-adjust, HTTPS URLs for WebSocket, requestVideoFrameCallback, @starting-style & transition-behavior, and others have seen big improvements towards...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 10 22H2 Build 19045.4955 (KB5043131) to BOTH the Beta Channel and Release Preview Channel for Insiders who are on Windows 10, version 22H2. The Beta Channel and Release Preview Channel will receive the same Windows 10 builds; however, the Beta Channel is where we will try new features out with Insiders that we’re working on that are not yet ready for all Windows 10 customers. This update includes the following features and improvements for Windows Insiders in BOTH the Beta and Release Preview Channels Items bolded in brackets indicate the area of the change being documented: [Microsoft Entra single sign-on (SSO)] The SSO notice that the European Digital Markets Act (DMA) requires...