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Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17692 Hello Windows Insiders! Today, we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17692 (RS5) to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring in addition to those who opted in to Skip Ahead. What’s new in Build 17692 SwiftKey intelligence comes to Windows SwiftKey gives you more accurate autocorrections and predictions by learning your writing style – including the words, phrases and emoji that matter to you. It’s available for Android and iOS, and starting with today’s build SwiftKey will now power the typing experience on Windows when using the touch keyboard to write in English (United States), English (United Kingdom), French (France), German (Germany), Italian (Italy), Spanish (Spain), Portuguese (Brazil), or Russian. Please take a moment to try typing and shapewriting on the touch keyboard in this build and let us know what you [ more… ]

AI powers Windows 10 April 2018 Update rollout Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to be a key area of investment for Microsoft, and we’re pleased to announce that for the first time we’ve leveraged AI at scale to greatly improve the quality and reliability of the Windows 10 April 2018 Update rollout.  Our AI approach intelligently selects devices that our feedback data indicate would have a great update experience and offers the April 2018 Update to these devices first.  As our rollout progresses, we continuously collect update experience data and retrain our models to learn which devices will have a positive update experience, and where we may need to wait until we have higher confidence in a great experience.  Our overall rollout objective is for a safe and reliable update, which means we only go as fast as is safe. Early [ more… ]

Windows Template Studio 2.2 released! We’re extremely excited to announce the Windows Template Studio 2.2!  For the next few releases, we are doing smaller updates to add in new pages and fixes. The reason being is we are working toward multi-project solution support for 3.0 and adjusting our templates to support that. This is a large sum of work but want to be sure we are still improving where we can now. As always, we love how the community is helping. If you’re interested, please head over to head over to WTS’s Github. What’s new: For the full list of adjustments in the 2.2 release, WTS’s Github has a full changelog. Included in this version: 3D Launcher feature Wizard enhancements Improved documentation Improved testing Bug fixes Dev platform updates: Updated Microsoft.NETCore.UniversalWindowsPlatform to 6.15 Updated Newtonsoft.Json to 11.0.2 Updated Microsoft.Toolkit.Uwp, Microsoft.Toolkit.Uwp.Notifications [ more… ]

E3 2018: Six Lenovo gaming PCs powered by Windows 10 announced this week This week at E3, Lenovo announced six new gaming devices powered by Windows 10 that arrive with simple, built-in Mixer streaming for low-latency, interactive moments for viewers and streamers to engage with other gamers, plus the latest in gaming technology from Intel and NVIDIA. With Xbox Play Anywhere, you can buy a game once and play it on both your Xbox One and any of these Windows 10 PCs. Let’s take a closer look at these devices: Lenovo Legion Y530 Laptop Between 24.2mm to 25.2mm thin and 2.3 kg light, up to the latest generation Intel processors, NVIDIA GPUs, DDR4 memory and more, the Lenovo Legion Y530 Laptop is thermally optimized to run cooler and quieter while being perfectly balanced between performance and portability. The 15″ FHD display with optional 144 [ more… ]