Articles by KENNETH

Announcing Intel® Joule™ support in Windows 10 IoT Core Anniversary Edition Two weeks ago I was excited to see us unveil Windows 10 IoT Core Anniversary Edition running on the new Intel® Joule™, built on the new Intel® Atom™ T5700 SOC. It took us a little over 6 weeks to bring up Windows 10 IoT Core and build Bamboo, the first Windows 10 IoT Core and Intel® Joule™ powered robot. We look forward to seeing what you think of Windows 10 IoT Core for the Intel® Joule™ when it becomes available as part of the Windows Insider Program release scheduled for September. Bamboo, the first Windows 10 IoT Core robot running on the Intel® Joule™ To give you a peek into what you can do with this we created Bamboo, a companion robotic panda. Running Windows 10 IoT Core on [ more… ]

This Week on Windows: IFA, pro football and a tour of the new Windows Store We hope you enjoyed this week’s episode of This Week on Windows! Take the tour of everything new in the Windows Store with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update in our Windows 10 Tips blog post, head over here to see all the Windows 10 devices announced at IFA, and keep reading for a great offer from Best Buy and everything new in the Windows Store this week! Save $150 on Lenovo Yoga 900 at Best Buy, Students can save an additional $150 From now until 9/3/16, Best Buy is offering $150 off the purchase of the Lenovo Yoga 900 and students can save an additional $150 off through Best Buy’s student portal. Customize your laptop experience to fit any occasion with this Lenovo Yoga 900 [ more… ]

Building in 10k: Markup for Accessibility, Clarity, and Affordance Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of posts from the team that built the 10k Apart contest page, exploring the process of building for interoperability, accessibility, and progressive enhancement in less than 10kB. In the previous post in this series, I talked a lot about how the 10k Apart contest site began to materialize in terms of structure and content. Once the planning was done, I was finally able to start building the site in earnest. Where do I begin? Generally, the first step I take in building any site is to drop some sample content into a fresh HTML document and then work my way through it, marking things up as I go. In the case of this project, I decided that sample content would be all [ more… ]

Kody Peralta: A high school student using Surface Book and OneNote every day Recently I met Kody Peralta, an ambitious 18-year old high school graduate who’s Surface Book has changed the way he learns. Kody now has the ability to take handwritten notes which he couldn’t do on pen and paper because of his transcription disability, dysgraphia. People with dysgraphia have difficulty with handwriting and it can interfere with a student’s ability to express themselves. Surface and OneNote together have encouraged him to start taking handwritten notes again because he can write on a much larger scale using Surface Pen and easily scroll in and out to make his sentences legible on ruled lines. Dysgraphia also effects the pressure that’s applied to any given writing tool and with the Surface Book’s ability to adjust pressure sensitivity, as well as quickly [ more… ]