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The Minecraft Spring Sale is now underway. From now until April 18 at 10 a.m. PT you'll find free content as well as daily discounts at the Minecraft Marketplace. "If you’re new to Minecraft: Bedrock Edition or you’ve simply never clicked that third button on your loading screen, then let me tell you what lies behind that door, friend. Worlds! Skins! Maps! Mini-games!" writes Sophie Austin on Minecraft.net. "You can add new textures to your game, change your character’s style, or jump into a whole new world to tame pets, beat bosses and more. Minecraft Marketplace is full of fantastic creations and, until April 18, this imaginative wonderland of ideas and additions is going to be on sale. Every day, three new items will be at 75% off...

With version 99 of Microsoft Edge, DevTools can securely download source maps from the Azure Artifacts symbol server. This means you can use Azure Pipelines to publish source maps to a secure location, and have DevTools retrieve them at runtime and offer a familiar debugging experience by displaying your original source code. In this post, Rob Paveza from the DevTools team will walk you through how to configure this feature, how it can help your in-production debugging, and where we plan to go from here. When I first joined Microsoft, an early task for me – and for many new hires – was to triage and possibly fix bugs. What’s happening? What’s the root cause? Is it user-visible? Windows crashes are reported via Windows Error Reporting...

What's in the latest update to Halo: The Master Chief Collection? Flood Firefight. Halo 3 and ODST co-op crossplay. Full custom game browser support. And that's just for starters. "In Halo 3: ODST, we’ve done more than just add the Flood to Firefight!" writes Alex Wakeford on Halo Waypoint. "Players can now use the VISR map to see enemy locations, even while waiting to respawn, in Firefight matchmaking. Players can now use the Energy Sword and Sentinel Beam in ODST for the first time ever, and can even spawn with these weapons in Fiesta Fight. We’ve also mixed new enemies (such as Elites and Flood) into the wave lineup for various Arcade variants in Firefight matchmaking." Head over to Halo Waypoint for details on all that's in the...

The first major update of Age of Empires IV for 2022 is now available. Festival of Ages brings Ranked Seasons, the Content Editor beta (and Mods), Seasonal Events, Major Balance changes, as well as lots of quality-of-life changes. Head over to AgeOfEmpires.com to watch the trailer and dig into the details of the update, which you can download and start enjoying the next time you launch the game. Continue reading...

Sleeping tabs in Microsoft Edge are designed to improve the memory and CPU usage of the browser. To save system resources for better speed and responsiveness, Microsoft Edge will put tabs to sleep when you haven't used them for a while, and then wake them as soon as they are clicked. Beginning in Microsoft Edge 100, we’ve updated sleeping tabs to enable pages that are sharing a browsing instance with another page to now go to sleep. With this change, 8% more tabs on average will sleep, saving you even more resources! On average, each sleeping tab saves 85% of memory and 99% CPU for Microsoft Edge. We’ve also added a way for you to view how much memory sleeping tabs is saving you by visiting Performance under the "…" ("Settings and...