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Always Connected PCs enable a new culture of work Throughout the history of personal computing, a steady wave of progress has changed how we interact with technology in both our work and personal lives. Microsoft and our partners have led many of these shifts in technology like enabling the original mobile computer – the laptop, navigating with touch, signing in with your face, detaching screens from keyboards, exploring mixed reality, and storing your files in the cloud. We are again at the beginning of another major technology shift: the ability to be connected anytime, anywhere with Always Connected PCs that are instantly on, always connected with incredible battery life. Terry Myerson, Windows and Devices Group Executive Vice President, shares his personal experience with Always Connected PCs at the Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit. New Always Connected PCs unveiled Last year at this [ more… ]

Windows 10 Tip: Get started with Continue on PC in the Microsoft Edge mobile app You know those websites, searches and articles that you pull up on your iPhone or Android phone? With the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, you can now forward them to instantly open on your PC, so you can continue what you’re doing – researching that project, shopping for those shoes, finishing that article – with all the benefits of the bigger screen. Here’s how to get started: Head to Settings, click on Phone and Add a phone. You’ll need to sign in with your Microsoft Account, if you haven’t already. Type your phone number, and click send. Once you click send, you’ll receive a text with a link to the app store to download and install an app. Now, for a seamless browsing experience across your [ more… ]

Extend your desktop application with Windows 10 features using the new Visual Studio Application Packaging Project Visual Studio 2017 15.4 introduced the new Windows Application Packaging project to help you modernizing your application by using the new Windows 10 App Deployment Stack. We talked about it in our previous post: Visual Studio 2017 Update 4 makes it easy to modernize your app and make it store ready and today we want to describe the new capabilities in Visual Studio 2017 15.5 that enable new scenarios to the Windows application packaging project to take advantage of more Windows 10 features in your applications. During this article we will cover three examples to highlight the new capabilities added to the packaging project to enable packaging for not only Win32 applications, but also UWP applications and components: Background execution using UWP background tasks. [ more… ]