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Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17650 for Skip Ahead Hello Windows Insiders! Today, we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17650 (RS5) to Windows Insiders who opted in to Skip Ahead. What’s new in Build 17650 Windows Defender Security Center gets a Fluent Design refresh We’ve heard your feedback and when you install this build you’ll find we’ve updated Windows Defender Security Center (WDSC) to include the Fluent Design elements you know and love. You’ll also notice we’ve adjusted the spacing and padding around the app and will now dynamically size the categories on the main page if more room is needed for extra info. Last but not least, we’ve also updated the title bar of the app so that it will now use your accent color if you’ve enabled that option in Color Settings – with Sets [ more… ]

Introducing sonarwhal v1: The linting tool for the web Just over one year ago, we started working on a best practices tool for the web called sonarwhal—a customizable, open-source linting tool, built for modern web developer workflows. Today, we are announcing the release of its first major version. With today’s launch, we’d like to talk you through a look back at how sonarwhal started, and the journey to v1 over the past few months. It all started with feedback from web developers, partners, and from our own experiences building for the web. The web platform is becoming richer at a faster pace than ever before: we now have web experiences we couldn’t even imagine a few years back. Sites can work offline, push notifications (even when the user is not visiting the site), and even run code at native speeds [ more… ]