Save the Date! NGINX Conf 2018 in Atlanta, October 8-10

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Save the Date! NGINX Conf 2018 in Atlanta, October 8-10 We at NGINX request the pleasure of your company at NGINX Conf 2018, the fourth annual NGINX conference. It will begin Monday, October 8 with a training day, followed by the conference on Tuesday, October 9th and Wednesday, October 10, all in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Why Atlanta, and why October? Atlanta, “the new cultural capital of America“, is the star of an award-winning show on FX and the major filming site for the movie Black Panther. Attractions include the Atlanta Botanical Garden, the Georgia Aquarium, and the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site. Restaurants are world-class, and nightlife is rich and varied. The weather should be great. The average daytime temperature for Atlanta in early October is a summery 75F (24C), with night-time lows “plunging” to about 55F (13C). [ more… ]

Preview the latest Windows Mixed Reality features coming this spring

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Preview the latest Windows Mixed Reality features coming this spring Hello Windows Insiders! We’re excited to offer our Fast ring insiders a sneak peek at the latest features coming this spring to Windows Mixed Reality! Our favorite new updates in Insider Preview Build 17115 include: A brand-new environment. In October we mentioned that the Cliff House was the first of many environments you’ll be able to enjoy in Windows Mixed Reality, and now we’re rolling out the Skyloft for you to customize and expand your MR experience. You can navigate there by selecting Places on the Mixed Reality Start menu. As requested, we’ve added haptic feedback to the motion controllers for SteamVR games! We’ve improved performance in SteamVR games with significantly lower video RAM usage. We’ve also improved the performance of live video preview in the Mixed Reality Portal on [ more… ]

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Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 17110 now available

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Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 17110 now available Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 17110 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 17110 contains bug fixes and under development changes to the API surface area. The Preview SDK can be downloaded from developer section on Windows Insider. For feedback and updates to the known issues, please see the developer forum. For new developer feature requests, head over to our Windows Platform UserVoice. Things to note: This build works in conjunction with previously released SDKs and Visual Studio 2017.  You can install this SDK and still also continue to submit your apps that target Windows 10 Creators build or earlier to the store. The Windows SDK will now formally only be supported by Visual Studio 2017 and greater. You can download [ more… ]

Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17618 for Skip Ahead

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Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17618 for Skip Ahead Hello Windows Insiders! Today, we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17618 (RS5) to Windows Insiders who have opted into Skip Ahead. What’s new in Build 17618 Sets: Sets is designed to make sure that everything related to your task: relevant webpages, research documents, necessary files, and applications, is connected and available to you in one click. Starting today in RS5 builds, we have turned the Sets experiment back on so any Insider who has opted into Skip Ahead will be able to try out Sets. With Sets, 1st party experiences like Mail, Calendar, OneNote, MSN News, Windows and Microsoft Edge become more integrated to create a seamless experience, so you can get back to what’s important and be productive, recapturing that moment, saving time – we believe that’s [ more… ]

AI Platform for Windows Developers

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AI Platform for Windows Developers At Microsoft, we’re making huge investments in AI and Machine Learning across the company. AI capabilities in Office 365 help subscribers with productivity at work, intelligent features in the Photos app for Windows 10 make it easier for people to create videos and search through massive photo collections, and Windows Hello uses AI to recognize your face and get you quickly logged in to your Windows devices. We also use AI to answer your questions when using Bing Search and Cortana, to enable advertisers build deeper connections with customers, and to help security professionals safeguard businesses against modern threats. Microsoft Research continues to drive the state of the art with speech recognition, machine reading and comprehension, computer vision. We’ve scaled AI to tiny devices, and even built AI that can draw! “Intel’s Movidius VPU technology [ more… ]