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Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17634 for Skip Ahead Hello Windows Insiders! Today, we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17634 (RS5) to Windows Insiders who have opted into Skip Ahead. What’s new in Build 17634 Search is now available in Calendar for Windows 10! Now you can find past or future events by searching for the name, location, people included or words in the event body. Events that match your search will be clearly visible on your calendar, while those that don’t will be greyed-out so you can find what you need quickly. Search will work for Outlook, Hotmail, Live and Office 365 accounts. We do not yet support searching Exchange Server, Gmail, Yahoo or other IMAP calendars. Cortana Show Me now supports voice queries Last week, we introduced Cortana Show Me, a preview app designed to [ more… ]

Here’s how Burton Snowboards is creating products for riders around the globe Chris working through the design process on a Surface Studio. Burton has been synonymous with the sport of snowboarding for decades. Since the company’s founding, Snowboarding has grown and evolved, even becoming an Olympic sport in 1998. Burton has been a key piece of the sport’s growth and transformation at every step. As the company looks ahead to emerging trends in the sport and charts its own transformation, we sat with Burton’s head of product, Chris Cunningham, to hear about how they create new products for riders around the globe and how Surface is coming into the process. Chris Cunningham, Head of Product for Burton Tell us about yourself. What do you do? How did this kind of work find you? What keeps you coming back every day? [ more… ]

Private audience: A new way to test your apps and games in production One of the consistent themes that the Dev Center Team hears from the Windows developer community is that first impressions are important. Before launching a new app or game, it’s important to validate that the experience is working perfectly in production. At the same time, many developers may have disclosure concerns and want to control the announcement timing of new products. We’ve heard your feedback that testing in production before launch is critical to gain confidence in your products’ quality, and that you’d like to be able to do this testing without having the product visible to anyone beyond the intended audience. To address this feedback, we’ve added a private audience capability in Dev Center. This new option is available now to all developers and allows you [ more… ]