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This Week on Windows: Highlights from our #MicrosoftEDU event We hope you enjoyed this week’s episode of This Week on Windows where we shared highlights from our #MicrosoftEDU event in New York City. At the event, we shared a lot of exciting news about Microsoft Education. If you missed the keynote, you can watch it here on-demand. Here are highlights from the event: Empowering students and teachers of today to create the world of tomorrow We introduced a set of educational products and services, inspired by teachers and students, including a new Windows experience called Windows 10 S; new experiences in Microsoft Teams for modern classroom collaboration; new features in Minecraft: Education Edition to teach coding ; 3D and mixed reality tools to spark creativity; a range of Windows 10 S PCs for K-12 classrooms; and the perfect Windows 10 [ more… ]

Create more with the latest Windows 10 Maps updates Hello! I’m Dave Alles, Partner Group Program Manager for the Windows Maps team. Our team delivers the Windows Maps app and the underlying map platform available to developers on all Windows 10 devices. We continuously work to release app updates with new functionality and improve the map control based on all the feedback we get from Windows Insiders, app developers, and our customers. We have a lot of updates we’ll go through, but I wanted to discuss a few upfront, designed to empower the creator in all of us. Ink on aerial mode – make any view of maps your own by adding rich annotations with Windows Ink. Planning an off-road hike, calculating the distance, and marking a mid-way spot for lunch becomes easier when you can personalize and write on [ more… ]

Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16188 for PC + Build 15210 for Mobile Hello Windows Insiders! Today we are excited to be releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16188 for PC to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. We are also releasing Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview Build 15210 to Insiders in the Fast ring. NOTE: This build is not yet available for Windows Insiders on Windows 10 Enterprise Insider Preview builds in these languages: AR-SA, DA-DK, EN-GB, ES-MX, FI-FI, FR-CA, NB-NO, and TH-TH. What’ New in Build 16188 For PC Awesome new features in Microsoft Edge’s PDF Reader: In addition to addressing a lot of Insider feedback on PDF functionality in Microsoft Edge, this build is also packed with a bunch of new features for reading PDFs in Microsoft Edge that we want you to check out. Here [ more… ]

Celebrate Star Wars Day today with deals in the Windows Store MOVIES* Are the original Star Wars films already in your collection? If not, get the Digital Six Film Collection, on sale now for $74.99 (that’s 17% off), and go from the beginning to the end as many times as you want. Or build your collection film by film, with first 6 films on sale for $13.99 each (30% off), from Star Wars: A New Hope to Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. Don’t forget the latest Star Wars installments, also available to buy in the Windows Store – Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. MUSIC** A lot of what gets your heart pounding in a Star Wars film is the music, and we’ve brought together the hit soundtracks, too. Star Wars: The Force [ more… ]