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Samsung announces Galaxy Book Pro series, continues to work with Microsoft to build a new approach to mobile computing With the Galaxy Book Pro series, partners Samsung and Microsoft embrace open collaboration, building a new approach to mobile computing in which smartphones and PCs work together across operating systems. Samsung has unveiled the Galaxy Book, Galaxy Book Pro and Galaxy Book Pro 360, ultra-thin and light Windows 10 laptops that can turn any location into a mobile office, theater or conference room. Studio mode in these laptops creates ideal video call environments that help you look your best, regardless of lighting or background, akin to Intelligent Noise Cancelling, which eliminates ambient noise from your microphone, you’ll always be heard with superior clarity. Combined with a compact USB Type-C universal charger, Galaxy Book’s minimal footprint moves with you however and wherever [ more… ]

Personalized content at a glance: Introducing news and interests on the Windows 10 taskbar As people spend more time on their Windows PCs, working, learning, connecting and creating, we’re making it easier to access personalized content that is available at a glance and updated throughout the day.  News and interests on the Windows taskbar will begin rolling out to customers over the next several weeks. We are taking a phased and measured approach and broad availability will occur in the coming months. It should be easy to catch up on the things we care about. Yet, we’re often stuck juggling devices, jumping between websites and looking across sources before finally getting what we’re looking for: relevant and high-quality content. News and interests on the Windows taskbar simplifies this process with a convenient and personalized experience centered around you. News and [ more… ]

Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21364 Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21364 to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. What’s new in Build 21364 Run Linux GUI applications directly on Windows using the first preview of GUI app support on the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) The Windows Subsystem for Linux now includes a first preview of support for GUI applications! This means you can now run your favorite GUI editors, tools, and applications, to develop, test, build and run your Linux apps! Please view the video below for a demo: For more info on this change please view this blog post. Task Manager supports Microsoft Edge process classification We partnered with the Microsoft Edge team to support process classification in Task Manager. This will help you to identify resource consumption under [ more… ]

Best in class, Microsoft Classroom Pen 2 empowers every student to achieve more Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, students and educators have had to navigate a wide range of learning scenarios, from remote, to hybrid, and in some parts of the world, a return to face-to-face learning. In many of these cases, schools and districts had to adopt new technologies to maintain teaching and learning efforts. Now, these institutions have an opportunity to use this technology to continue to rethink and redefine traditional classroom approaches for their students. One major way schools are making this happen already is by moving from relying on pen and paper towards empowering students and teachers to write and teach with digital ink and ink-enabled devices. Digital inking also helps schools and institutions promote sustainability by lowering paper and printer usage. Instead of having students [ more… ]