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Announcing Project Honolulu Technical Preview 1712 Build 05002 Hello Windows Insiders! Today we are releasing Project Honolulu Technical Preview 1712 Build 05002 to Windows Server Insiders. Project Honolulu is a flexible, lightweight browser-based customer-deployed platform and solution for Windows Server management scenarios for troubleshooting, configuration and maintenance. Project Honolulu Technical Preview 1712 Build 05002 is now available to Insiders before the public. What’s New in Project Honolulu Technical Preview 1712 Build 05002 We’ve added a couple top requested features in Virtual Machines and continued with the performance enhancements that lead to faster load times and page rendering. Virtual Machines Based on high customer request, we now support viewing and changing VM settings while a VM is running, similar to how you can in Hyper-V Manager. On Generation 2 VMs, you can change general settings, memory setting, checkpoint setting and add [ more… ]

Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 17061 now available Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 17061 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 17061 contains bug fixes and under development changes to the API surface area. The Preview SDK can be downloaded from developer section on Windows Insider. For feedback and updates to the known issues, please see the developer forum. For new developer feature requests, head over to our Windows Platform UserVoice. Things to note: This build works in conjunction with previously released SDKs and Visual Studio 2017. You can install this SDK and still also continue to submit your apps that target Windows 10 Creators build or earlier to the store. The Windows SDK will now formally only be supported by Visual Studio 2017 and greater. You can download [ more… ]

Service Workers: Going beyond the page We’re thrilled to announce that today’s Windows Insider build enables Service Workers by default in Microsoft Edge for the first time. This is an exciting milestone for us and for the web! These new APIs allow the web to offer better experiences when devices are offline or have limited connectivity, and to send push notifications even when the page or browser isn’t open. This milestone also establishes the foundation for full-featured Progressive Web App experiences in Microsoft Edge and the Microsoft Store. We’ve carefully tailored our implementation together with Windows and are excited to be the only browser on Windows 10 to provide push handling in the background to optimize for better battery usage. We’ll have more to share about PWAs on Windows in the weeks ahead, so be sure to stay tuned! We [ more… ]