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Surface reveals new holiday lineup and introduces a new category of dual-screen devices built for mobile productivity Today in New York we announced our broadest Surface lineup ever – with five new products coming this holiday and two new dual-screen devices, Surface Neo and Surface Duo, coming in Holiday 2020. When we started Surface, we had a vision to remove the conflict between the tablet and laptop. What started as an effort to create the two-in-one evolved into a full line of products that are more versatile, more adaptable and more personal. We know that to be your best, you need devices that adapt to you to help you accomplish your goals. These new products are about empowering you to be your most productive, and your most creative. With that in mind we are bringing more performance and new designs [ more… ]

Bringing the security and manageability of Windows for IoT to the intelligent edge The intelligent edge continues to expand the possibilities for businesses of all sizes, enabling them to gain new insights in real time and translate them into powerful business intelligence on site. With the growth of the intelligent edge comes increasing demand for connected devices, and this creates new opportunities for developers with expertise in security, cloud, systems engineering and hardware programming. But building IoT devices and connected systems also poses fresh challenges. The IoT in Action event series is a great opportunity for you to learn to build new IoT experiences and drive rapid innovation in your business with the intelligent edge. Join Microsoft in Santa Clara on Oct. 10 to learn more. How the intelligent edge is influencing needed developer skills For embedded developers—those tasked with [ more… ]

Announcing the webhint v1 browser extension for Microsoft Edge We are thrilled to announce that the webhint browser extension has moved from beta to its v1 release and is now available for Insider builds of Microsoft Edge, as well as for Chrome and Firefox! The webhint browser extension allows you to easily scan a website and get feedback on accessibility, browser compatibility, security, performance, and more within the browser DevTools. Read more at https://webhint.io/. Try the webhint browser extension Once you’ve installed the extension for your browser, simply open DevTools and select the Hints tab. From here, you’ll be able to run a customizable site scan. You can select what browsers are relevant to you by using the browserslist syntax. (browserslist is the defacto standard for creating browser support matrix, and it’s used by tools such as autoprefixer.) You can also ignore certain cross-origin resources in [ more… ]