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Mixed Reality @ Microsoft – July 2018 Update What makes July meaningful are the engagements we have with our customers, partners, and developers. This passionate and dedicated community helps us fine tune what we have been engineering and working to bring to market. The insights we get are invaluable, and I always look forward to this time as it represents an important milestone in making our vision real for customers around the world. With that, I want to take a moment and share some of what we have been working on, where we have been, and some really cool demos that highlight the ongoing opportunity we are seeing with Microsoft HoloLens and mixed reality business applications. Microsoft Inspire I had the opportunity to represent all the people on my team who are working to bring mixed reality business applications to [ more… ]

Introducing Web Authentication in Microsoft Edge Today, we are happy to introduce support for the Web Authentication specification in Microsoft Edge, enabling better, more secure user experiences and a passwordless experience on the web. With Web Authentication, Microsoft Edge users can sign in with their face, fingerprint, PIN, or portable FIDO2 devices, leveraging strong public-key credentials instead of passwords. A web without passwords Staying secure on the web is more important than ever. We trust web sites to process credit card numbers, save addresses and personal information, and even to handle sensitive records like medical information. All this data is protected by an ancient security model—the password. But passwords are difficult to remember, and are fundamentally insecure—often re-used, and vulnerable to phishing and cracking. For these reasons, Microsoft has been leading the charge towards a world without passwords, with innovations [ more… ]

Windows 10 Tip: Find out all you can do with improved Game bar Good news for PC gamers: The Windows 10 April 2018 Update delivered a makeover to the Game bar so it’s even easier to find what you’re looking for. New buttons on the Game bar provide easy access to your captures, themes (dark, light, or your current Windows theme) and the time (thanks to a new clock). You can also use the bar to toggle your microphone and camera, start a Mixer stream without any extra hardware or software, and edit the title of your Mixer stream. Check out the improved Game bar: If you like this, check out more Windows 10 Tips. Source: Windows 10 Tip: Find out all you can do with improved Game bar