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Windows 10 Tip: Yikes, stop that sound! Mute-a-tab in Microsoft Edge Does this sound familiar? You’ve got multiple tabs open in your browser and all of a sudden, music or voices blares from one of them. You scramble to find the audio icon on that tab, open the page and scroll down to stop the video that’s playing. There’s a faster way to shut down that sound. A new feature with the Windows 10 April 2018 Update can mute tabs in Microsoft Edge. Here’s how to do it: To mute a tab in Microsoft Edge, click the audio icon Simply click the audio icon or right-click the tab to choose Mute from the drop down menu. If you like this, check out more Windows 10 Tips. Source: Windows 10 Tip: Yikes, stop that sound! Mute-a-tab in Microsoft Edge

Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17704 Hello Windows Insiders! Today, we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17704 (RS5) to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring in addition to those who opted in to Skip Ahead. The Bug Bash is on! To the Insiders who have participated so far: Thank You! Our Bug Bash will be running from June 22nd 12am PDT – July 1st 11:59pm PDT. In honor of this we’re doing a special Bug Bash edition webcast on our Mixer channel RIGHT NOW (10am PDT) – come join us while we chat about RS5 and how things are going. And in case you haven’t heard, we’re running a contest! You could win a trip to Microsoft’s campus here in Redmond, details here. What’s new in Build 17704 Microsoft Edge Improvements New Microsoft Edge Beta logo: We’re introducing a [ more… ]

Chakra documentation is joining MDN web docs Last fall, along with other browser vendors and web platform stakeholders, the Edge platform (EdgeHTML) team adopted MDN web docs as our official web API reference library. In the process, we redirected over 7700 MSDN pages for HTML, CSS, SVG and DOM APIs to corresponding reference content on MDN and joined the community in helping maintain it, including making over 5000 edits to the browser compatibility tables to reflect the latest Edge API surface Today the Microsoft Edge JavaScript engine, Chakra, joins the community-wide effort to make MDN web docs the web’s one-stop, premiere development reference, starting by redirecting all 500+ pages of Microsoft’s JavaScript API reference from docs.microsoft.com to their MDN counterparts and porting our legacy JS extensions reference for historical and servicing purposes. We want to thank our community for enthusiastically [ more… ]

A legend reborn: Microsoft brings back the iconic mouse, the Classic IntelliMouse Microsoft IntelliMouse. Originally launched in 1996, it became instantly famous with gamers and highly regarded as a great gaming mouse. The IntelliMouse 3.0 had exceptional ergonomics due to its the asymmetric from, and sculpted buttons and finger rests, making it fit perfectly into your hand. It also used long life Omron switches, and coupled with a low force to fire and low key idle, the buttons were easy to press, and activated with minimal slack before engaging the switch. At the time, it also had a very good low DPI optical sensor with very low error rates and good smoothing – all key elements for a great gaming mouse. Known for always innovating, the IntelliMouse range continued to push the boundaries and offer advances in mouse technology and [ more… ]