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Releasing Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.3030.0 to the Beta Channel Hello Windows Insiders, Today, we are releasing Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.3030.0 to Windows Insiders in the Beta Channel. This update is only available to Windows Insiders in the Beta Channel who are still on 20H2 (Build 19042.662 or higher). If you chose to move to 21H1 last week, you will not receive this Windows Feature Experience Pack update. We will be releasing Windows Feature Experience Pack updates for Insiders on 21H1 soon. This update includes the following improvement: We are improving the reliability of the handwriting input panel. These Windows Feature Experience Pack updates are delivered to Insiders through Windows Update just like builds and cumulative updates are. Insiders in the Beta Channel can go to Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update and check for updates to [ more… ]

Six time-saving tips for using the DevTools Console Microsoft Edge DevTools engineer Patrick Brosset recently collected some of the web development community’s favorite tips for getting the most out of one of the most popular features of browser DevTools: the humble Console. We’ve collected a few highlights from Patrick’s blog post, as well as a few tips of our own, that can help you be more productive in the DevTools. But first: What is Console? In the Microsoft Edge DevTools, the Console tool has two main functions. The first is outputting messages and errors logged from a website’s Javascript. For example, if your website code has a line of Javascript that reads console.log(`My code is running!`);, you would expect to get the following output in the Console tab of DevTools. Console’s second function is serving as a Javascript REPL, meaning [ more… ]

What to know before you accept that cookie The “accept cookies” pop-up is a familiar sight as we browse the internet. How do you know which are safe? And are they even necessary? The Windows Resource Center has broken cookies down into their main ingredients so you can make the best call. A new blog posts summarizes why cookies can be a good thing, helping your favorite websites get to know you so they can offer what you want and make browsing and shopping experiences smooth. It also shows how cookies can be bad, and points you to tools to help keep your private information private as you navigate sites that use cookies. Head on over to the blog post, and safe surfing to you! Source: What to know before you accept that cookie

Minecraft’s Good Trouble aims to help build a better world Minecraft: Education Edition‘s Lessons in Good Trouble includes many famous activists throughout history and the world – such as Malala Yousafzai, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst – and learning zones that take learners of any age to many places, including Selma, Alabama, India, Pakistan, the U.K. and South Africa. The latest two lessons are on the Black Lives Matter and the U.S. civil rights movements (focused on the march across Edmund Pettus Bridge, the Greensboro Lunch Counter Sit-Ins and Rosa Parks’ protest against public segregation). There will be 10 lessons in all, releasing over the course of spring. They all reinforce how “good trouble” – the kind Congressman John Lewis was known for causing to secure the right to vote – can build a better world. In [ more… ]