Microsoft Store announces PC digital game gifting

2018-05-11 KENNETH 0

Microsoft Store announces PC digital game gifting Last Fall, the Microsoft Store enabled gifting of select Xbox One digital games, Xbox One downloadable game content (durables only), and Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass subscriptions. This feature has been a huge hit with our fans and has made buying presents for friends and family even easier, especially around the holidays. Today, the Microsoft Store team announced over at Xbox Wire that they’ve expanded digital gifting to include PC games and PC downloadable game content (e.g. map packs, skins). Further, all Xbox One games are now eligible for digital gifting. Head over here to learn how to get started! Microsoft Store announces PC digital game gifting Tweet This Source: Microsoft Store announces PC digital game gifting

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Windows Developer Awards: And the 2018 winners are…

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Windows Developer Awards: And the 2018 winners are… The excitement at Microsoft Build 2018 kicked off on May 6 with the annual presentation of the Windows Developer Awards, which acknowledge the hard work that goes into making great applications. In a room full of the some of the best and brightest Windows developers, recognition went to Application Creator of the Year, Game Creator of the Year, Reality Mixer of the Year, Design Innovator of the Year, and Ninja Cat of the Year. Apart from the Ninja Cat of the Year award, which was selected by an internal team of Windows experts, the top applications were voted on by the developer community. Application Creator of the Year: Leveraging the latest Windows 10 capabilities Winner: Affinity Designer  Affinity Designer is the fastest, smoothest, and most precise vector graphic design software available. Whether [ more… ]

HP’s new laptops with Windows 10 will help you work better on-the-go

2018-05-10 KENNETH 0

HP’s new laptops with Windows 10 will help you work better on-the-go HP EliteBook 700 Series Powered by Windows 10 and AMD Ryzen PRO mobile processors, the new HP EliteBook 700 series notebooks offer powerful security, manageability, and collaboration features. You can stay productive all-day with long battery life and HP Fast Charge to charge 50 percent of your battery in just 30 minutes; work in almost any light condition with the extra-bright screen, narrow bezel displays, and integrated ambient light sensor; and make calls from your PC more productive with the world-facing, noise cancellation microphone and collaboration keyboard. HP EliteBook 735 G5 Notebook The EliteBook 700 series notebooks have an HD camera and an HD infrared webcam so you can login safely and easily with Windows Hello. With Microsoft Edge, you can pin your favorite websites to the taskbar, [ more… ]

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Bringing a modern WebView to your .NET WinForms and WPF Apps

2018-05-10 KENNETH 0

Bringing a modern WebView to your .NET WinForms and WPF Apps One of the founding principles of Microsoft Edge is that it is evergreen, with automatic updates to Windows 10 continually refreshing both Microsoft Edge itself and web content throughout Windows 10. However, until recently, WinForms and WPF apps didn’t have access to the Microsoft Edge-powered WebView. Earlier this week at Build 2018, Kevin Gallo previewed a new WebView for Windows 10, bringing the latest Microsoft Edge rendering engine to .NET WinForms and WPF apps for the first time in an upcoming release of Windows 10. In today’s post, we’ll provide more details on the benefits this brings to developers, and how you can preview this new capability in the Windows 10 April 2018 Update. A WebView for the modern web In our recent blog post on Progressive Web Apps [ more… ]

Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17666

2018-05-10 KENNETH 0

Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17666 Hello Windows Insiders! Today, we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17666 (RS5) to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring in addition to those who opted in to Skip Ahead. What’s new in Build 17666 The next wave of Sets improvements is here! We’ve been steadily going through your feedback, and this build contains a number of improvements based on what you’ve been telling us: Bring on the acrylic! We love Fluent Design as much as you do – in today’s build you’ll find that Sets now have an acrylic title bar. We’re also adjusting the window border so that it’s now grey. Recent Microsoft Edge tabs now show in Alt + Tab: Do you use Alt + Tab to quickly switch back and forth between apps? All of your recent Microsoft [ more… ]