Microsoft today announced the general availability of the Surf game in Microsoft Edge to all users
The new surf game in Microsoft Edge now available for everyone
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What Bill Gates said about the internet in a Microsoft internal memo 25 years ago today: It’s a ‘tidal wave’
Exactly 25 years ago today, on May 26, 1995, Gates wrote an internal memo to Microsoft’s executive staff and his direct reports to extol the benefits of expanding the company’s internet presence
GymConnections
With GymConnections every gym has its own community of people. So, people can virtually meet, chat, organize to see each other in the gym or follow a course together
Windows 10’s new Start menu at 1 billion
The new Start menu looks sleeker and simplified, and live tiles are still part of it for select apps such as Weather, News, Mail, and Photos.
F# 5 and F# tools update
In the last couple of weeks, I started to create posts about F#. Today, Microsoft has just announced some updates to F# 5 and F# tools update! They shipped a lot of preview features since F# 5 preview 1, and they have all been stabilizing since that release. Today, we’re happy to announce some minor additions to F# 5 and talk about some pretty cool performance work we’ve been doing. Here’s how you get the latest release: Install the latest .NET 5 preview SDK Install Jupyter Notebooks for .NET If you’re using Visual…
Windows Forms Designer for .NET Core
Windows Forms designer for .NET Core projects is now available as a preview in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.6!
Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI
Introducing .NET Multi-platform #App #UI
Microsoft announces Windows Package Manager, a new way to install tools easily on Windows
Microsoft announced the new Windows Package Manager preview, a command line tool that allows you to install your favorite tools quickly and easily
Microsoft is bringing Linux GUI apps to Windows 10
Linux on Windows 10 gets a big boost and GPU acceleration
Windows Terminal is here!
Two months ago, I presented to you Tabbed Command Prompt that it was in beta for Windows 10. Finally, Microsoft released the new version. Now, I can say Windows Terminal is here!
Uno Platform now lets you develop for macOS, Windows, and more using the same code
Uno Platform announced today that it now supports macOS as a target platform. This new support means that developers can use a single code base to create apps on Windows, iOS, Android, the web, and macOS. According to Uno Platform, this makes it the first and only cross-platform solution to allow the same codebase to run on all these platforms. Uno Platform allows developers to use C# and XAML code to create native apps on several platforms. Rather than running through Electron or emulation, apps that utilize Uno Platform can…
Introducing Web Vitals: essential metrics for a healthy site
Optimizing for quality of user experience is key to the long-term success of any site on the web. Through our ongoing engagement and collaboration with millions of web developers and site owners, we’ve developed many helpful metrics and tools across Google to help business owners, marketers, and developers alike identify opportunities to improve user experiences. However, abundance of metrics and tools creates its own set of prioritization, clarity, and consistency challenges for many. Today we are introducing a new program, Web Vitals, an initiative by Google to provide unified guidance…
Inkscape 1.0 is free Windows 10, Linux, macOS
The Inkscape project’s version 1.0 of the free and open-source vector graphics editor is packed with new features
Microsoft: new free Python programming language courses are for novice AI developers
Aspiring data-science and machine-learning developers now have more Microsoft-made free video tutorials to learn how to build software in Python, one of today’s most popular and versatile programming languages. The new More Python for Beginners series consists of 20 videos that run between two minutes and 15 minutes each. It covers working with files, lambdas or ‘anonymous functions’, and object-oriented programming, and each tutorial is followed by a short demo video. The tutors also introduce some newer functionality to support asynchronous development through async/await. The new series are once again presented by Christopher…
Digital transformation scenario with Azure, Visual Studio and Git
In a company prospective, what digital transformation is about? In this post I explain my point of view
GitHub accounts stolen in ongoing phishing attacks
GitHub users are currently being targeted by a phishing campaign specifically designed to collect and steal their credentials
Windows 10: The new hidden features found in preview builds
With the latest Windows 10 Insider build, new hidden features have been found that add long-awaited media controls to the volume flyout and a new settings page that shows a ‘What’s New’ section for the current Windows release. As Microsoft developers work on new features for Windows 10, they hide them from being used by users. These features, though, can be enabled by the developers as needed for testing. These hidden features can be enabled using tools like Mach2 or ViVe (ViVe is a C# library you can use to make your own…
A guide to remote development with Visual Studio Live Share
Working in a fully distributed, remote team requires sophisticated collaboration technology, which needs to be both supercharged and frictionless. Visual Studio Live Share was built on the bold principle of making remote developer collaboration as powerful and natural as in-person collaboration. We knew that our paradigm: “share your context, not your screen,” was only feasible, if we allowed the power of the modern IDE translate to remote collaboration sessions. Just then the world changed drastically and everyone was forced to be remote. It wasn’t just professional developers who needed Live Share; there were students, teachers, and interview candidates who needed a real-time collaboration service. So the Live…
Microsoft Editor, an alternative to Grammarly
Last week Microsoft announced a new service called Microsoft Editor, an AI-powered writing assistant that takes on Grammarly, available for Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome. Microsoft Editor helps you write with confidence in 20+ languages. Since it is a browser add-on, it will help you whenever you are on the web, right from writing emails to posting your story on Facebook. Microsoft Editor tiers Microsoft Editor has two different tiers. The free edition includes basic features such as spelling and basic grammar across Word, Outlook.com and the web. But with…
New Xamarin Application Developed to Track and Manage COVID-19 in Real-time
Volunteers re-engineer cancer treatment software to monitor coronavirus pandemic using Microsoft’s Xamarin mobile framework with Azure Mobile Angel has released a new mobile application built on the Xamarin platform to manage potential and at-risk coronavirus patients in real-time. The free application monitors patients in clinics across the country through self-reported symptoms and prioritizes them in a triage list based on fever and other symptoms. With built-in telemedicine features, clinic staff can directly monitor patients while reducing in-person visits and potential exposure. The application also aggregates reports across the country so…
Microsoft News Bar beta now available
Microsoft launched a new app for newshounds on the Microsoft Store today, dubbed Microsoft News Bar. The app is essentially a persistent news ticker for your desktop, serving up the latest headlines as they happen. There’s also a fair bit of customization to get the right fit for your desktop setup. On launch, News Bar takes up a portion of the right side of your screen with a list of images for each news story. Hovering over each image will give you a preview of the story’s headline and a…
WHO encourages people to game #PlayApartTogether
According to a report by USA Today, Activision-Blizzard and other game makers kicked off an initiative called #PlayApartTogether to entertain themselves while practicing social distancing. The initiative, supported by the World Health Organization (WHO), is particularly noteworthy because WHO previously designated video game addiction as an official mental health disorder. But the group hopes that the industry can “reach millions with important messages to help prevent the spread of COVID-19,” said Ray Chambers, the WHO ambassador for global strategy in a statement. Game companies will encourage players to stay distanced and observe other safety measures including hand hygiene, he…
Are Windows 10 Control Panel’s days numbered?
Ever since the Windows 8 days, Microsoft has had two settings apps built into Windows. A modern Settings app, and a legacy settings app known as Control Panel. Microsoft has been slowly working to replace the legacy Control Panel with the modern Settings app on Windows 10, but as Windows Control Panel has been part of the OS for decades, transferring all those settings to the new app takes a lot of time. It’s been five years, and that process still isn’t done. With that said, the latest Windows Insider builds of…
Getting started with GitHub Sponsors
Are you interested in GitHub Sponsors but don’t know where to start? Do you have questions about whether you should sign up as an individual or as an organization? This guide walks you through several ways you can start pursuing funding for your open source work. We’ll cover how to sign up and receive funds, as an: Individual Organization with a bank account Organization without a bank account And we’ll review a few other topics on how to: Display your Sponsors profile or external funding links with a button on your project Add sponsor…
Microsoft warns of Windows zero-day exploited in the wild
Hackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in the Windows 7 OS to take over systems, Microsoft said in a security alert today. The zero-day is located in the Adobe Type Manager Library (atmfd.dll), a library that Microsoft uses to render PostScript Type 1 fonts inside multiple versions of the Windows OS. Microsoft says there are two remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in this built-in library that allow attackers to run code on a user’s system and take actions on their behalf. “There are multiple ways an attacker could exploit the vulnerability, such…