Application Engagement in Windows Timeline with User Activities

2017-12-20 KENNETH 0

Application Engagement in Windows Timeline with User Activities Great applications help users do great things — enabling a wide range of creative, productivity and entertainment scenarios. Returning to activities can be a challenge, especially when a person wants to continue those activities across multiple devices. By writing User Activities, application developers have a new tool to get users back into their application. In this article, you’ll learn how to drive application re-engagement by writing great User Activities into the Microsoft Graph with their UWP applications. This article is also a companion to the Microsoft Connect(); session: Engaging with your customers on any platform using the Microsoft Graph, Activity Feed, and Adaptive Cards. User Activities and Timeline Starting in Windows Insider Preview build 17056 or higher, User Activities generated by your application appear in Timeline. By writing User Activities into the [ more… ]

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Service Workers: Going beyond the page

2017-12-20 KENNETH 0

Service Workers: Going beyond the page We’re thrilled to announce that today’s Windows Insider build enables Service Workers by default in Microsoft Edge for the first time. This is an exciting milestone for us and for the web! These new APIs allow the web to offer better experiences when devices are offline or have limited connectivity, and to send push notifications even when the page or browser isn’t open. This milestone also establishes the foundation for full-featured Progressive Web App experiences in Microsoft Edge and the Microsoft Store. We’ve carefully tailored our implementation together with Windows and are excited to be the only browser on Windows 10 to provide push handling in the background to optimize for better battery usage. We’ll have more to share about PWAs on Windows in the weeks ahead, so be sure to stay tuned! We [ more… ]

Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17063 for PC

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Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17063 for PC Hello Windows Insiders! Today, we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17063 for PC to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring and for those who opted in to Skip Ahead. What’s new in Build 17063 Introducing Timeline Timeline is here! We know that it can be difficult to get back to stuff you were working on in the past. If you’re like us, you might sometimes forget which site or app you were using or where you saved a file. Now you can finally close apps without worrying—with Timeline, you can get right back to where you left off. Timeline introduces a new way to resume past activities you started on this PC, other Windows PCs, and iOS/Android devices. Timeline enhances Task View, allowing you to switch between currently running [ more… ]

Last Chance holiday savings at Microsoft Store begin today

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Last Chance holiday savings at Microsoft Store begin today Still scrambling to find those final few gifts? Microsoft Store has the perfect last-minute gifts with major savings on the season’s hottest products like Surface, Xbox, Windows Mixed Reality headsets and PC bundles, accessories and more to get you through the final shopping push. You can still get your gifts in time for the holidays by picking up your online purchase at your local Microsoft Store open through Dec. 24. Keep reading for the final holiday deals of the season from Microsoft Store kicking off today! Last-minute deals at the best price for those left on your list: Xbox and Gaming: Save up to $80 on select Xbox One S 500GB bundles, now starting at $199, plus a free select game (through Jan. 6, 2018) ** Get PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) for [ more… ]

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RHBA-2017:3488-1: java-1.8.0-openjdk bug fix update

2017-12-20 KENNETH 0

RHBA-2017:3488-1: java-1.8.0-openjdk bug fix update Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated java-1.8.0-openjdk packages that fix two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Source: RHBA-2017:3488-1: java-1.8.0-openjdk bug fix update