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Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 17754 available now! Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 17754 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 17754 contains bug fixes and under development changes to the API surface area. The Preview SDK can be downloaded from developer section on Windows Insider. For feedback and updates to the known issues, please see the developer forum. For new developer feature requests, head over to our Windows Platform UserVoice. Things to note: This build works in conjunction with previously released SDKs and Visual Studio 2017. You can install this SDK and still also continue to submit your apps that target Windows 10 build 1803 or earlier to the store. The Windows SDK will now formally only be supported by Visual Studio 2017 and greater. You can download [ more… ]

Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17758 Hello Windows Insiders! Today, we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17758 (RS5) to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. What’s new in Storage Sense Starting with Windows 10, Storage Sense has embarked on a path to keep your storage optimized. We’re making continuous improvements in every feature update. From Build 17720 and later, we’re adding a new capability and making a few changes to Storage Sense’s behavior. Storage Sense now has the capability to automatically free up disk space by making older, unused, locally available files be available online-only. Learn more in the Storage Sense blog post here. General changes, improvements, and fixes for PC The build watermark at the lower right-hand corner of the desktop is no longer present in this build. This does not mean this is the final [ more… ]

Video: Acrobat soars to another level with digital pen When she’s not working, Marta Luis Burguete likes to hang out – upside down from the ceiling, as an aerial acrobat. In a new video tutorial, the Microsoft product specialist brings together her passion and her profession to show how to use a digital pen, a Surface Pro and Microsoft Office to edit a flyer, script and stage floor plan for an Aerial Circus School show. Check out the video tutorial below, in which she demonstrates how to use the digital pen to edit these plans and promotions for the show. She uses PowerPoint to edit the flyer with ink to text, ink to shape and ink replay, as well as to create the stage floor plan using the ruler, segment eraser and ink replay. In Word, she uses ink editor [ more… ]