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Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17682 Hello Windows Insiders! Today, we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17682 (RS5) to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring in addition to those who opted in to Skip Ahead. What’s new in Build 17682 Sets Improvements We’ve heard your feedback and have been hard at work updating the new tab page to make it more obvious you can launch apps. When you click the plus button in a Sets window, you will now see apps included in your frequent destinations list. You’ll also find that we’ve integrated the all apps list into this page so you can browse your apps, rather than just using the search box – apps that support Sets will launch into a tab when clicked. If you have News Feed selected, simply click the “Apps” link next [ more… ]

Microsoft gives parents peace of mind with new family features across devices We live in a time of both great opportunity and great responsibility. Our children have access to more information, entertainment and more ways to connect than ever before, but with that comes plenty of new things that parents like you and I need to worry about and new ways to distract their attention. Today, we are excited to introduce new features that make it easier and safer for families to interact with technology and, each other, across devices and platforms. Creating tools and features that empower both parents and kids has always been an important part of our work and is becoming increasingly vital, not only to us as a business, but to us as individuals – parents, aunts and uncles, siblings and friends. As a mother to [ more… ]

Announcing Windows Community Toolkit v3.0 I’m excited to announce the largest update to the Windows Community Toolkit yet, version 3.0. As announced a few weeks ago, we recently changed the name of the community toolkit to better align with all Windows developers, and today we are releasing our biggest update yet which introduces: A new package for WPF and WinForms developers that includes the new Edge WebView A new package for all XAML UWP developer to enable usage of eye gaze APIs in XAML A new package for all .NET UWP developers to help in writing runtime API checks A new package introducing new controls to access the Microsoft Graph New controls and APIs in existing packages Fluent updates to existing controls with support for light and dark theme Updated documentation, including code examples in Visual Basic Many improvements and [ more… ]