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Serving our customers more effectively with new release cycles for Microsoft Edge Innovation has been part of Microsoft Edge since day one, whether you’re seamlessly accessing corporate apps online for work or saving money shopping with built-in coupons. As contributors to the Chromium project, we look forward to the new 4-week major release cycle cadence that Google announced, to help deliver that innovation to our customers even faster. For many, innovation can’t come fast enough! But that is not the case for all customers, particularly our enterprise customers who manage complex environments and must balance delivering new innovations against rigorous planning and testing. To help our enterprise customers looking for an extended timeline to manage updates, Microsoft Edge will offer an Extended Stable option aligned to a longer, 8-week major release cycle; if this option is not selected, the 4-week [ more… ]

Got Xbox Game Pass? Start playing 20 Bethesda games from world’s most iconic franchises Earlier this week, Microsoft officially welcomed ZeniMax Media and Bethesda to the Xbox family. What does that mean to you as a gamer? For starters, it means an awesome slate of great games has arrived on Xbox Game Pass for you to discover and play with your friends. Today, 20 of Bethesda’s most iconic and award-winning games – from franchises like Dishonored, Doom, The Elder Scrolls, Fallout and Wolfenstein – are available to Xbox Game Pass members. Additionally, 16 of those titles will be available everywhere you play, whether it’s PC, console or mobile devices through the cloud for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members. Head over to Xbox Wire for more, and to Microsoft Store on Windows to see the full list of games, some of [ more… ]

Build Cross-Platform applications with WinUI and Uno Platform Uno Platform is a free and open-source platform aiming to take WinUI applications built with C# and XAML everywhere.   If you are not familiar with WinUI, it is the native UX platform for building Windows applications – you can learn more about it on the WinUI website. With Uno Platform you can bring your WinUI applications everywhere that WinUI does not natively run – Web/WebAssembly, Linux, macOS, iOS, and Android. Uno Platform is Open Source (Apache 2.0) and available on GitHub.  This tutorial will walk through both setting up your Visual Studio environment for WinUI and Uno Platform development as well as building a simple same-codebase application which uses WinUI InfoBar control and runs on Windows, WebAssembly and Android. Upon completion of this 5-minute tutorial your sample application will look like this in both “light” and “dark” modes:  Prerequisites If you have not prepared your dev environment for Uno Platform app development yet, the Setting up the Environment page in the Uno Platform docs will guide you through installing all the prerequisites.  Tutorial: WinUI InfoBar running Cross-Platform  Open Visual Studio and click on Create a new project. Search for the Uno templates, select the Cross-Platform App (Uno Platform) then click Next. Name your app ‘UnoLovesWinUI’ then click Next.  Once the [ more… ]