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Windows 10 Tip: Try reading on a full screen for a distraction-free experience in Microsoft Edge Want to focus on a new book, report or story? But having a hard time because of the many other things vying for your attention on your computer screen? With the Windows 10 April 2018 Update, you can take books, PDFs and Reading view pages full-screen, for a distraction-free reading experience in Microsoft Edge. To do this, click on the double-arrow icon in the reading bar, or in the More menu, or hit F11 on your keyboard. Here’s how to do it: Take your reading to a full screen for a distraction free experience. If you like this, check out more Windows 10 Tips. Source: Windows 10 Tip: Try reading on a full screen for a distraction-free experience in Microsoft Edge

6 great ways to score big during Ultimate Game Sale Ultimate Game Sale* is back! Now is the perfect time to save big and upgrade your slowing gaming PC, stock up top-rated PC games, or pick up that new gaming keyboard and mouse at Microsoft Store. While Ultimate Game Sale is our biggest ever, you need to jump all over these deals now because the sale ends July 30. 1. Save up to 50 percent on more than 100 top-rated games for Windows Save big on select Windows 10 games such as “State of Decay 2,” “Sea of Thieves,” “Middle Earth: Shadow of War,” “Forza Motorsport 7,” “Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection” and more. There’s more than 100 popular PC games on sale during Ultimate Game Sale and many support Xbox Play Anywhere, meaning one purchase gets you the game [ more… ]

Microsoft announces the public preview of Windows 10 IoT Core Services The Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming how businesses gather and use data to develop competitive insights and create new financial opportunities. As IoT technology matures and our partners gain more experience, they are evolving their business models to increase the overall return on investment of their IoT solutions. This includes adding recurring revenue, enhancing security, and reducing support costs. At Computex a few weeks back, we announced Windows 10 IoT Core Services, which enables our IoT partners to commercialize their solutions running on Windows 10 IoT Core. We are now excited to announce the public preview of this service along with details on purchasing and pricing. As described in our previous blog, IoT Core Services provides 10 years of operating system support along with services to manage device updates and assess [ more… ]

Announcing Windows Admin Center Preview 1807 Hello Windows Insiders! Thank you for your continued interest in the Windows Admin Center insider preview! If you are new to the preview, check out last month’s post Announcing Windows Admin Center Insider Preview 1806 to learn the difference between GA and Preview versions, and review all the new features in the 1806 preview. Release Summary July’s release brings a new streamlined experience to connect your gateway to Azure, as well as a top customer request: The Virtual machine inventory page now supports multi-select so that you can perform actions on multiple VMs at once! Completely new functionality in this release consists of new file sharing functionality in the files tool, and Azure update management integration in the updates tool. These new features are described in detail below. New Functionality File Sharing You can [ more… ]