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Optimizing Your Website with the Google PageSpeed Dynamic Module for NGINX Plus

2017-03-04 KENNETH 0

Optimizing Your Website with the Google PageSpeed Dynamic Module for NGINX Plus As the average size of web pages continues to grow, it is increasingly important to optimize all aspects of design, development, and delivery of your website in order to ensure a good experience for your users, regardless of what device they are using. It is well documented that page load time impacts user experience and revenue. Google PageSpeed is a suite of tools for measuring and optimizing the performance of your website, and has been available for several years as a third‑party module you can compile into open source NGINX. With the introduction of dynamic modules in NGINX Plus R11, NGINX Plus users can now take advantage of PageSpeed as well. When you load PageSpeed as a dynamic module into NGINX Plus, it automatically rewrites and optimizes resources on your website. In [ more… ]

Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 15048 for PC and Build 15047 for Mobile

2017-03-04 KENNETH 0

Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 15048 for PC and Build 15047 for Mobile Hello Windows Insiders! Today we are excited to be releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 15048 for PC and Build 15047 for Mobile to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. Other changes, improvements, and fixes for PC We fixed the issue where some UWP apps may unexpectedly appear with their app package name in the title bar as opposed to the app name. A lot of you sent us screenshots of this in the Feedback Hub and we were able to debug the issue quickly. Thank you!. [GAMING] We fixed the issue where some popular games might minimize to the taskbar when launched. We fixed an issue where copy and pasting URLs to and from the Microsoft Edge address bar with spaces wouldn’t convert spaces into [ more… ]

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Just Released – Windows Developer Evaluation Virtual Machines – February 2017 Build

2017-03-04 KENNETH 0

Just Released – Windows Developer Evaluation Virtual Machines – February 2017 Build We’re releasing the February 2017 edition of our evaluation Windows developer virtual machines (VM) on Windows Dev Center. The VMs come in Hyper-V, Parallels, VirtualBox and VMWare flavors. The evaluation version will expire on 05/21/17. Evaluation VM contain: • Windows 10 Enterprise Evaluation, Version 1607 • Visual Studio 2015 Community Update 3 (Build 14.0.25425.01) • Windows developer SDK and tools (Build 14393) • Microsoft Azure SDK for .NET (Build 2.9.6) • Windows UWP samples (Feb 2017 Update) • Bash on Ubuntu on Windows If you don’t currently have a Windows 10 Pro license, you can get one from the Microsoft Store. If you just want to try out Windows 10 and UWP, use the free evaluation version of the VMs. The evaluation copies will expire after a pre-determined [ more… ]

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An update on our Unified Update Platform (UUP)

2017-03-03 KENNETH 0

An update on our Unified Update Platform (UUP) Back in November, we announced the next generation of our delivery technologies called the Unified Update Platform (UUP). Windows Insiders are the first to experience UUP with Insider Preview builds. We began releasing new Insider Preview builds using UUP to Mobile devices first starting with Build 14959 in November. Then we began releasing new Insider Preview builds to PCs using UUP starting with Build 14986 in early December. I wanted to give a small update on where we are today with UUP. As a recap, one of the biggest benefits UUP brings to our customers is a reduction in download size of build updates on PCs. We’ve converged technologies in our build and publishing systems to enable differential downloads for both PC and Mobile. A differential download package contains only the changes [ more… ]

This Week on Windows: NASCAR app, Anime Month, tips for using Microsoft Edge

2017-03-03 KENNETH 0

This Week on Windows: NASCAR app, Anime Month, tips for using Microsoft Edge We hope you enjoyed this week’s episode of This Week on Windows! Catch up on all the news out of Mobile World Congress and the Game Developers Conference, head over here to learn how you can import your favorites from other browsers to Microsoft Edge, or keep reading to see what’s new in the Windows Store. Here’s what’s new in the Windows Store: Riptide GP: Renegade The future moves fast in Riptide GP: Renegade ($9.99), where illicit hydroject racing involves death-defying stunts over massive waterfalls, cop-dodging through public waterways and boosts to breakneck speeds across surging waves. NASCAR, new for Xbox One   The thrills of the stock-car racing season are what the NASCAR (Free, with IAP options) app is all about, and now it’s here for Xbox [ more… ]