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Sea of Thieves’ second story-driven Adventure, Forts of the Forgotten, is now live and will be available until April 7. “Rally your crew, rendezvous with Belle and set sail for the Sea Forts pulled through from the Sea of the Damned by Captain Flameheart,” writes Mike Chapman, creative director at Rare, in a post on Xbox Wire. “Expect heavy resistance from a Phantom phalanx as you battle through these ghostly fortifications to rescue the missing inhabitants of Golden Sands Outpost!” Forts of the Forgotten is available for free to all Sea of Thieves players who have bought the game on Windows PCs, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One or via Steam, or players who have access to it with Xbox Game Pass. Simply download and install the latest Sea of...

Starting Wednesday, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members will be able to stream “A Mountain of Entertainment,” including the Paramount+ Original Series, “Halo,” premiering on March 24, along with other exclusive originals, big movies and more with a 30-day free trial to Paramount+ via Perks. Ultimate members who are new to Paramount+ will be eligible to claim the 30-day subscription trial through the Perks gallery on the Xbox app on Windows PCs, on their Xbox console or through the Xbox Game Pass mobile app on iOS and Android. Once the Perk is claimed, members will be directed to the Paramount+ site to activate their trial. The Paramount+ app is also available to download and use on Windows PCs in select regions, on your Xbox Series X|S and...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22581 to the Dev and Beta Channels. TL;DR Build 22581 is also being flighted to Windows Insiders in the Beta Channel. Now that the Dev and Beta Channels are receiving the same builds, the limited window has opened for Insiders to switch channels if desired. Please read the details below about the limited window to switch channels and what happens when the window closes. The time is now for you to make sure you’re in the channel you want to be going forward! We also have a handful of improvements and fixes to some issues, see below for more details. If you missed yesterday’s webcast, you can watch it on demand here. This month’s webcast featured guests from...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22579 to the Dev Channel. TL;DR The Bug Bash has begun! Help us continue to shape Windows by participating in our Bug Bash from March 16th to March 22nd. Explore new features, apps, and experiences that we have released in these latest builds and share feedback! You can check the Quests section of the Feedback Hub to get ideas of what to try out. Participating Insiders on this build will receive a Bug Bash badge in the Feedback Hub. We are releasing ISOs for this build – they can be downloaded here! This build introduces a new policy for IT administrators to exclude USB removable drives from BitLocker encryption. We are also introducing a good set of...

Many people who are blind or low vision experience the web primarily through a screen reader: an assistive technology that reads the content of each page aloud. Screen readers depend on having image labels (alternative text or "alt text") provided that allows them to describe visual content - like images and charts - so the user can understand the full content of the page. Alt text is critical to making the web accessible, yet it’s often overlooked. Our data suggests that more than half of the images processed by screen readers are missing alt text. To help fill that gap, Microsoft Edge will now provide auto-generated alt text for images that do not include it. Auto-generated alt text helps users of assistive technology such as screen...