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A new line of Minecraft x PUMA apparel and footwear is now available, and you can try the items on first inside the new and free collaboration DLC map: PUMA x Minecraft — Sprint Dash. “With the accompanying Sprint Dash DLC for Bedrock Edition, it won’t be all about dodging unreasonably accurate skeleton arrows anymore – it’s about who is the fastest,” writes Cristina Anderca in a post on Minecraft.net. “Put on your Minecraft x PUMA streetwear and race your friends through three interactive maps including caves and cliffs, a cityscape and a jungle.” Visit the PUMA store to choose from over 20 skins and be forever faster in style. Or just look cool while watching the race from the sidelines. Find out more at Minecraft.Net. Continue...

Minecraft Dungeons has hit the milestone of 15 million players since the launch of the game, and is celebrating with the Festival of Frost, taking place from now until Feb. 22. “Avid Tower runners will discover that their favorite tall structure has been outfitted with new frost-themed floors,” Per Landin writes in a post on Minecraft.net. “In addition, seasonal trials from the Chills and Thrills event will make a return, offering players who missed out on last year's event the chance to experience all the fun. And, saving the best for last, to commemorate this occasion, every player who logs into the game after Feb. 8 will receive the ‘Iceologer Cape’ reward as a thank you for being part of our ongoing journey.” Head over to...

Building off the Windows 11 momentum Panos shared last week, we want to take a moment and share a little bit on what’s coming for the Windows Insider Program in 2022. It has truly been incredible to see the interest in the program grow since announcing Windows 11 last June. We have more people running preview builds of Windows 11 than we did Windows 10, and we are energized by all the feedback we’re seeing from Insiders and excited to use those insights to make Windows 11 even better for our customers. To accomplish this, we have been evolving the way we develop and release to Insiders with more emphasis on trying out different concepts with our features and services. As part of this ongoing evolution, Insiders will see us lean more...

Starting in Microsoft Edge version 99, you can use the new “Unminify profile” button in the Performance tool to download an unminified profile using your published sourcemaps. Opening this file in the Performance tool will provide you with easier-to-debug call stacks with better function names. The Performance tool in DevTools allows developers to learn more about their app’s code base by capturing events, network requests, call stacks, and more over a period of time. The recorded profiles make it possible to investigate performance issues in specific user scenarios and debug customer problems. These profiles can also be exported as JSON, making it easy to share with peers to help with investigation. Large web applications often minify...

Welcome to the first Windows Terminal release of 2022! This release will add the new features below to Windows Terminal Preview 1.13 and migrate Windows Terminal to version 1.12, which includes all of the features from this previous blog post. The Windows Terminal 1.12 build will be released through the Windows Insider Program before being delivered to retail versions of Windows. As always, you can install Windows Terminal and Windows Terminal Preview from the Microsoft Store or from the GitHub repository. The minimum supported version of Windows 10 for Windows Terminal 1.13+ has been increased from 18362 (19H1) to 19041 (20H1). Updated settings UI design We’ve updated our settings UI to align with the new Windows 11 style, using...