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Save money and time with Microsoft’s Personal Shopping Assistant Microsoft’s Personal Shopping Assistant, first released in 2016 through The Garage, is a browser add-on that helps you get the best deals at more than 50,000 online stores, from top retailers like Amazon and Walmart to your favorite boutique shop on Etsy. Track prices for products on thousands of stores Never miss a deal again with the Personal Shopping Assistant. When you’re on a product web page, click the heart shaped button in the assistant widget and add it to your Favorites. The assistant will automatically notify you when the price changes, and you can see all price changes from the notifications screen in the assistant. Compare prices across retailers Shop smarter with instant price comparisons from other retailers. When you’re shopping online, the assistant will notify you when products you’re [ more… ]

Keeping you updated on Windows Hello At Microsoft, we take your device and account protection seriously, which is why we’ve been on a mission to eliminate passwords. Passwords can be difficult to remember, are often reused and can be used to hack your account anywhere, anytime, from any device. Windows Hello is a key component in our effort to finally saying goodbye to passwords. Using facial recognition, a fingerprint, or PIN, Windows Hello is a fast, secure and password-less way to unlock your Windows 10 PC.1 We’ve been busy bringing the latest and greatest features to Windows Hello and account protection and wanted to take some time to update you on what’s new. Account protection and sign-in We’re making it easier than ever to protect your identity on Windows. In the Windows Security app, available on all Windows 10 PCs2, [ more… ]

Windows Template Studio 2.5 released! We’re extremely excited to announce the Windows Template Studio 2.5! As always, we love how the community is helping. If you’re interested, please head over to head over to WTS’s Github. What’s new: Full list of adjustments in the 2.5 release, WTS’s Github has a full changelog. Included in this version: Improved startup time splitting templates by platform/language Improved guidance on Suspend and Resume feature Support for VS 2019 Bug fixes Navigation View uses WinUI Library Pages updated with current Fluent guidance Recently added in prior versions: Multiple Ink pages Data Grid from Windows Community Toolkit page Dev platform updates: Updated target platform version to 10.0.17763.0 and min target version to 10.0.17134.0 Updated Microsoft.NETCore.UniversalWindowsPlatform to 6.1.9 AdaptiveCards to 1.1.0 AppCenter.Analytics and Microsoft.AppCenter.Crashes to 1.10.0 UI.for.UniversalWindowsPlatform 1.0.1.2 MVVMLight to 5.4.1.1 Windows Community Toolkit to 5.0.0 How [ more… ]