Windows 10 Tip: How to get started viewing and streaming with Mixer

2017-07-11 KENNETH 0

Windows 10 Tip: How to get started viewing and streaming with Mixer Mixer is the only next-gen live game streaming service that offers viewers real-time influence and participation in game streams. Mixer’s streaming protocol delivers content with less than one second of latency. It makes game streams so fast and clear, that it’s a refreshing surprise to both streamers and viewers—almost like they’re in the same room! Here’s how to get started with Mixer: To view Mixer content from your PC, simply navigate to Mixer.com.  Featured streams are available right from the homepage, or you can sort streams by game using the “Games” menu on the left-hand side of the homepage. While you’re there, consider logging in with your Microsoft account so that you can start earning sparks when you view Mixer streams across both Windows and Xbox One devices.  [ more… ]

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We’re expanding the Mixed Reality Partner Program

2017-07-10 KENNETH 0

We’re expanding the Mixed Reality Partner Program Just over a year ago at Build 2016, we welcomed 10 digital and creative agencies to develop mixed reality solutions as part of the HoloLens Agency Readiness Partner Program. As part of the program, we provided these partners with technical readiness training to extend their design competencies and help them deliver compelling mixed reality solutions across industries, including education, healthcare, architecture, engineering, construction, and design. With the expansion of Microsoft HoloLens to more developers and commercial customers around the globe this last March — including those in Australia, Ireland, France, Germany, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, China, and Japan — we welcomed new partners to the program to create the future of mixed reality experiences for customers in those regions. Now more than 30 HoloLens Agency Readiness Partners are producing tangible results such as proof-of-concepts (POC), [ more… ]

Now is the best time to be a Surface partner

2017-07-10 KENNETH 0

Now is the best time to be a Surface partner I love the energy of our partners and hearing about their successes with Surface. To every Surface partner: thank you. You are helping businesses around the globe create workplaces that harness the full power of their teams and unleash their people’s creativity. It’s meaningful work that inspires me personally and the Surface team daily. It’s amazing to think about how far the Surface Commercial business has come in three years because of our partners – from one to over 15,000 partners worldwide. Partners have developed innovative delivery and service models, such as Surface as a Service, which in under a year has grown from one partner and one customer to over 50 partners in 15 markets worldwide. Another partner-led program, the Surface Hub Value Added Distributor Program for Opportunity Resellers [ more… ]

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Windows virtualization use rights coming to CSP

2017-07-10 KENNETH 0

Windows virtualization use rights coming to CSP We’re exceptionally proud that Windows 10, the most secure Windows ever, offers the widest range of device form factors and the greatest breadth of input options with support for touch, pen, gesture, and voice. Customers choose Windows 10 knowing that they can purchase a great new business PC for just a few hundred dollars, an incredible Surface Pro or Surface Book device for the ultimate in business productivity, or build their own custom rig part-by-part to meet any budget. For some business customers, Windows virtualization is the solution that best meets their productivity, security, and IT infrastructure needs. This may mean PCs connecting to Windows client VMs running on dedicated or multi-tenant hardware enabling users to freely move from device to device, through to scenarios where a particular app or data set requires [ more… ]

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Connecting with partners to empower the modern workplace

2017-07-10 KENNETH 0

Connecting with partners to empower the modern workplace This is one of my favorite weeks of the year! It’s a week where Microsoft leaders connect with thousands of partners from around the world to talk about what’s new and the opportunity in front of us in the coming year. Since our last partner conference a year ago, we’ve been working together to better serve customers who have continuously evolving demands of technology. We’re on a mission to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more in the Modern Workplace. A big part of that mission is delivering a new way for customers to transform their business with modern Microsoft products and services that help make employees more productive, creative and secure. Just last week we announced new security and management features in Windows 10 that will arrive in [ more… ]