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Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23486 Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23486 to the Dev Channel. What’s new in Build 23486 Passwordless Improvements Microsoft believes that the future is passwordless. Passkeys will allow you to replace passwords when you sign into a web site or application that supports them. Passkeys represent a future where bad actors will have a much harder time stealing and using your credentials when signing into a web site or application. Passkeys are phish-resistant, recoverable, and faster for users. Enroll and use passkey to sign into apps and websites: We are improving the passkey experience for Windows users. They can now go to any app or website that supports passkeys to create and sign in using passkeys with the Windows Hello native experience. Once a passkey is created, [ more… ]

Dev Home Preview 0.2 Release Welcome to our second release of Dev Home! This release updates Dev Home Preview to version 0.2 and the Dev Home GitHub Extension to version 0.2 as well. You can install Dev Home from the Microsoft Store or from the GitHub releases page. For this release, we focused on resolving bugs and adding quality improvements. Miscellaneous improvements 🛠️ A WinGet YAML configuration file for NodeJS has been added to the repository. 🛠️ The dashboard now displays a loading progress ring while loading widgets (Thanks @aksoftware98!). 🛠️ System widget graphs now use antialiasing for a smoother appearance. 🛠️ Core widgets now work on Arm64 devices (Thanks @snickler). 🛠️ The repository cloning tool now shows you repositories you’ve previously cloned. Bug fixes 🐛 Switching the theme doesn’t get into a broken state anymore (we’re pretty sure). 🐛 [ more… ]

Microsoft study: Small businesses intrigued by AI and the opportunities it brings Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the defining technology of our time. Are small businesses equipped and willing to adapt to the new ways of work? The data featured in this post is from an internal study, the “Small Business State of Mind” report, commissioned by Microsoft Corporation in May 2023 and conducted by Wakefield Research. The pace of work has increased exponentially, and people are struggling to shoulder the weight of it all. Small businesses, accounting for 99% of all businesses and employing nearly half of the workforce in the U.S. [i], face heightened pressures due to more limited access to resources—people, revenue, etc.—than neighboring enterprises. With the emergence of AI, small businesses are poised to benefit greatly from next-generation tools and resources designed to help grow and scale businesses. [ more… ]