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This Week on Windows: Forza Horizon 3, fall TV and “Destination: Mars” We hope you enjoyed this week’s episode of This Week on Windows! Check out our Windows 10 Tip blog post to learn more about how you can enable Windows Spotlight images on your lock screen. Head over here to read about the HoloLens experience “Destination: Mars,” here to find out how you can get Forza Horizon 3 early and here to learn about the new desktop apps in the Windows Store. Or, keep reading to see what’s new in the Windows Store this week! Check out all the ways you can watch your favorite shows on Windows this fall! Sling TV Download the Sling TV app and watch your favorite fall premieres live on TBS, AMC, Comedy Central, and more. Get 7 days free and start watching today! Restrictions [ more… ]

Building in 10k: Compilation, Optimization, and Compression Editor’s note: This is the sixth (and final) in a series of posts from the team that built the 10k Apart contest site, exploring the process of building for interoperability, accessibility, and progressive enhancement in less than 10kB. In the previous post in this series, I did a deep dive into many of the JavaScript enhancements available to visitors to the 10k Apart site. It was a significant read and if you made it through the whole thing, I commend you. Once all of the front-end code was basically done, it was time to turn our attention toward compressing the heck out to it. GZip would be there to help us, certainly, but we could do more… a lot more. In this post, Antón Molleda, David García, and I will discuss workflow, server [ more… ]

Developer, CEO, entrepreneur and father — all with a Surface in hand Software Architect, Cloud Consultant, Entrepreneur, Community Leader, Events Organizer, Dedicated Father. All those hats make for a busy life in Sweden and the many countries he travels to. Magnus Mårtensson makes the most of his time and travels by using a Surface Pro 3, which he loves. Here is Magnus, in his own words: “As CEO of Loftysoft I am constantly on the move, as a speaker on a stage near you, delivering training to those that seek greater insight into the Cloud, or consulting and bringing true value to my customers everywhere.” — Magnus Mårtensson Magnus is the founder and CEO of consulting firm Loftysoft AB, based out of Sweden. He has a historical background in .NET development as a Software Architect, Technical Specialist and Team Lead since [ more… ]

Minecraft: Education Edition will launch November 1 Since June 9, more than 35,000 students and educators around the world have utilized the early access program and provided feedback to help us fine-tune the experience across a diverse set of learning environments. Minecraft: Education Edition is built based on feedback from the educator community and the features and capabilities they have told us are important to enhancing the learning experience. While we debuted several of these features with early access in June, we’re excited to roll out even more key capabilities on November 1, including: Classroom Mode: A companion app for Minecraft: Education Edition that enables educators to manage world settings, communicate with students, give items and teleport students in the Minecraft world. It displays a map view of the Minecraft world, a list of all the students in the world, [ more… ]