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HP launches world’s first dual-screen gaming laptop and other innovations In our multitasking world, when you’re playing PC games, there’s a good chance you’re doing a lot of other things, too. Gaming industry insights show 82% of people use their mobile phones for messaging during gaming sessions, while 61% listen to music and 49% watch game-related live streams, view video content and browse websites [1]. With this in mind, HP has created the world’s first dual-screen gaming laptop [2], the OMEN X 2S. OMEN X 2S Players will be able to message friends in WeChat and WhatsApp, browse the perfect songs to accompany their sessions on Spotify, watch Twitch and YouTube, or even serve as a hub for OMEN Command Center software through an easy-to-use 6-inch 1080p touchscreen above the keyboard – freeing them from the hassles of alt-tabbing. A [ more… ]

Announcing UI Tests in CI/CD for Desktop App Developers For many years the ability to run UI tests in CI/CD has provided great value to web developers. This past Microsoft Build 2019 we were excited to announce desktop app developers can now also run UI tests in Azure DevOps! Desktop applications can now run automated UI tests in CI/CD on Azure DevOps using hosted or private agents, and setup is simple with a new Pipeline task. Why UI tests in CI will help App Developers Continuous Integration (CI) enables you to run automated tests of your application every time there’s a code change, and typically on servers so you’re not tying up desktop machines for testing. App developers have had the ability to run UI tests using WinAppDriver, and adding these tests to CI is important for a couple key [ more… ]

Built for business: Lenovo’s new ThinkBook S series Lenovo Thinkbook 14S If your small or medium-sized business is shopping for laptops that provide security, reliability and support services, check out Lenovo’s new ultra-slim ThinkBook S series. Available in 13- and 14-inch models, the Lenovo ThinkBook 13s and 14s run on Windows 10 and come with built-in security features such as single-step authentication and power-on with the touch fingerprint reader, discrete TPM 2.0 to enable Windows 10 security features and user data encryption and a ThinkShutter camera cover for privacy control. Find out more on the Microsoft 365 Blog and at Lenovo. The post Built for business: Lenovo’s new ThinkBook S series appeared first on Windows Blog. Source: Built for business: Lenovo’s new ThinkBook S series

Windows 10 Tip: Microsoft Edge PDF improvements Did you know you can hover over the top of a PDF in Microsoft Edge to see the PDF toolbar, thanks to the Windows 10 October 2018 Update? The toolbar, available whenever a PDF document is opened in Microsoft Edge, will show text descriptions for the icons to make them quickly understandable. Options like “Add notes” make these handy tools available when you need them. You can also pin the toolbar at the top of the document, making all the PDF tools easily accessible if you need them. You can also unpin the toolbar for an immersive reading experience. If the toolbar is unpinned, it will hide itself – just hover over the top area to bring it back. Check it out in action: If you like this, check out more Windows 10 [ more… ]