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Windows 10 Tip: Search, shop and learn through the photos you take with Visual Search  Last week, the Bing team launched new intelligent Visual Search capabilities, built upon the visual technology already in Bing, which can help you identify things like landmarks, flowers and animals and help you shop for clothes and home furnishings. You can even get search results for similar-looking images, different dimensions of the same image, and links to other site(s) that use the same images. It’s available today on both iOS and Android devices – try it through the Bing app for iOS and Android, the Microsoft Edge app on Android and Microsoft Launcher on Android. Visual search will be coming soon to the Microsoft Edge app on iOS and the Bing.com mobile site. Here’s what you can do with it: Snap a picture, start a search. See a landmark [ more… ]

Mixed Reality @ Microsoft – June 2018 Update Hey everyone — I hope this month’s blog post finds you well! Today, we are welcoming the solstice in the U.S., and I am very much looking forward to summer in Seattle. In addition to some planned vacation time, I will also be working with our team and partners on some exciting product development efforts for mixed-reality business applications. I can’t wait to share more about that in the coming months! But before we look too far ahead, June has already been filled with some cool mixed-reality moments. Earlier this month my colleagues Dio Gonzalez and Katie Kelly presented at the sixth annual Augmented World Expo (AWE) in Santa Clara, California. I was encouraged but not at all surprised to hear from them about the tremendous growth of the conference, with many [ more… ]

Introducing WinAppDriver UI Recorder A new open-sourced tool is now available for the Windows Application Driver (WinAppDriver) community: the WinAppDriver UI Recorder tool. This tool will enable users to easily create automated UI tests. For those of you not familiar with WinAppDriver, it is a UI automation service for Windows 10 that users can use to test their applications. We recently released our v1.1 preview that you can read more about here. What is UI Recorder For many in the WinAppDriver community, Inspect has been the most common tool for users to select UI elements and view their attribute data. Though Inspect serves its intended purpose of viewing accessibility data, it falls behind when it comes to supporting scenarios specifically for UI automation, such as being able to generate XPath queries. For situations such as these, the WinAppDriver UI Recorder [ more… ]

Meet Microsoft News: A new way to stay informed across the Web, Windows 10, iOS and Android Microsoft has been in the news business for more than 23 years. When we launched MSN in 1995, the news industry was just beginning to provide content online. The period that followed was one of dramatic change and reinvention, forcing news organizations to re-think their programming and business strategies. We changed, too, from a feature of Windows 95 to a network of web and app experiences that now reaches nearly half a billion people in more than 140 countries and 28 languages. As we’ve evolved, our central mission has remained the same: to keep our audience informed in an easily accessible, comprehensive and trustworthy way. Today, we’re excited to share the next step in our evolution – Microsoft News. Microsoft News Editors at [ more… ]