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This Week on Windows: Resume assistant from LinkedIn and Office 365, Forza and more We hope you enjoyed this week’s episode of This Week on Windows! Head over here to read more about the new 2017 Ford F-150 Raptor Xbox One X Edition for Forza Motorsport 7, check out HP’s new commercial devices designed for the modern workforce, or read this week’s Windows 10 Tip on getting started with the emoji keyboard! In case you missed it: Announcing the HypeZone Fortnite Battle Royale Channel on Mixer This week, over at the Mixer blog, the Mixer team announced that they’ve expanded HypeZone to include a Fortnite Battle Royale channel! With Fortnite‘s player base of more than 45 million gamers, HypeZone Fortnite will host the action you’re craving from Fortnite‘s free 100-player PvP mode: One giant map. A battle bus. Fortnite building skills and destructible environments combined with [ more… ]

Fujitsu and Microsoft focused on advancing security in the modern workplace Working from anywhere at any time is increasingly the new standard and companies worldwide are modernizing their technology to thrive in this environment. To support this transition, we at Fujitsu partnered with Microsoft to build devices that are highly mobile, flexible and secure. For a behind-the-scenes look, please watch “Enabling the Modern Workplace”.** There are many reasons for companies to modernize their technology and embrace the remote workstyle. Here are my top 3: long-term cost savings, increased employee productivity, and a competitive recruiting edge. More than just enabling remote access, technology modernization includes providing the most secure environment to protect your employees, company, and customers. Modern Security Per Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics*, over 60% of security attacks stem from compromised user credentials. To minimize this very real security concern, [ more… ]

New Feature: Free-form pricing in Dev Center Pricing your app or add-ons correctly is key to your success on Microsoft Store. As a community, you have been asking for increased flexibility when pricing your products, and the Dev Center team is happy to announce that as of today, all developers can now use the Free-form pricing feature. With the introduction of this feature, you now have the freedom to set the price of your app, game, or add-on to any value you choose in a market’s local currency. Think 7 is your lucky number?  You can change your game’s United States price to USD $7.77. Looking to offer a special add-on for Single’s Day in China? You can set your add-on’s China price to CNY ¥11.11. The pricing possibilities are endless, within the same valid ranges as the price tiers (USD $0.99-$1,999.99).  Note that free-form pricing can only be used to override the base [ more… ]

More employees say they would choose Surface We have seen that people feel more productive, creative and valued when they are given a Surface as their work device and now a recent report from Carolina Milanesi of Creative Strategies signals an increase in the number of consumers who want to use Surface at work. Creative Strategies asked a panel of 1300 US consumers about their preferences for how they use their PCs for both personal and professional scenarios. Responses showed Surface is winning over early tech adopters and continuing to challenge Apple within the broader survey set.  People cited Surface’s ability to bridge both creativity and productivity and their professional and personal lives as key reasons they chose Surface. Here are a few key insights to take away from Carolina’s (@caro_milanesi) report: People want the device that does it all. [ more… ]