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Windows 10 Tip: Five expert tips to help you master ink in OneNote Write and draw even more naturally Using a pen feels natural with tilt* support, letting you draw and shade just like you would with paper and pencil. Simply select the Pencil tool, angle your pen slightly, and watch as your ink stroke changes from a point to a more natural angle. Draw with dazzling ink Spice up your notes and sketches with fun ink effects** like rainbow, galaxy, gold, silver, lava, ocean, and more. Clean up your notes OneNote lets you convert your handwritten notes into text, making them more presentable and easier to read. It’ll even preserve the size and color of your ink, as well as highlights and ink effects like rainbow and galaxy! Set things straight with the ruler Can’t draw a straight line [ more… ]

Build your digital signage business on Windows 10 It’s been a busy week at Digital Signage Expo 2018 (DSE) and it’s great to see how the industry continues to innovate and change. All throughout the week, we were excited to see our partners enable digital signage solutions across a range of capabilities, from traditional AV displays to dynamic data-driven signage leveraging Windows 10 and the Azure cloud platform. Windows 10 offers a simple, scalable, and secure platform for digital signage, and with Azure, you can quickly scale as your business grows. Content management solutions running on Azure provide agility, flexibility, and scale to deploy your content across the world in no time. Building on that, here are some highlights of the great work our partners are doing with digital signage leveraging Windows 10 and Azure. One of our partners, XOGO, [ more… ]

Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17634 for Skip Ahead Hello Windows Insiders! Today, we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17634 (RS5) to Windows Insiders who have opted into Skip Ahead. What’s new in Build 17634 Search is now available in Calendar for Windows 10! Now you can find past or future events by searching for the name, location, people included or words in the event body. Events that match your search will be clearly visible on your calendar, while those that don’t will be greyed-out so you can find what you need quickly. Search will work for Outlook, Hotmail, Live and Office 365 accounts. We do not yet support searching Exchange Server, Gmail, Yahoo or other IMAP calendars. Cortana Show Me now supports voice queries Last week, we introduced Cortana Show Me, a preview app designed to [ more… ]

Here’s how Burton Snowboards is creating products for riders around the globe Chris working through the design process on a Surface Studio. Burton has been synonymous with the sport of snowboarding for decades. Since the company’s founding, Snowboarding has grown and evolved, even becoming an Olympic sport in 1998. Burton has been a key piece of the sport’s growth and transformation at every step. As the company looks ahead to emerging trends in the sport and charts its own transformation, we sat with Burton’s head of product, Chris Cunningham, to hear about how they create new products for riders around the globe and how Surface is coming into the process. Chris Cunningham, Head of Product for Burton Tell us about yourself. What do you do? How did this kind of work find you? What keeps you coming back every day? [ more… ]