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Forza Horizon 3 Windows 10 demo now available Windows 10 players can now get a taste of the epic automotive adventure that is Forza Horizon 3 with the launch of the Windows 10 demo of Forza Horizon 3. Starting today, the Forza Horizon 3 Windows 10 PC demo is available in the Windows Store for no additional charge. In Forza Horizon 3, you’re the boss of the Horizon Festival – the biggest and best cars and music festival in the world. Your goal is to expand the festival to new locations throughout Australia and you’ll get your first taste of what that experience is like in the demo. Along the way, you’ll be able to explore a portion of Forza Horizon 3’s map, while taking a guided tour through some of the best features that the game has to offer. [ more… ]

The “Internet of Stranger Things” Wall, Part 2 – Wall Construction and Music Overview I do a lot of woodworking and carpentry at home. Much to my family’s chagrin, our house is in a constant state of flux. I tend to subscribe to the Norm Abram school of woodworking, where there are tools and jigs for everything. Because of this, I have a lot of woodworking and carpentry tools around. It’s not often I get to use them for my day job, but I found just the way to do it. In part one of this series, I covered how to use Windows Remote Wiring to wire up LEDs to an Arduino, and control from a Windows 10 UWP app. In this post, we’ll get to constructing the actual wall. This post covers: Constructing the Wall Music and UWP MIDI [ more… ]

Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14959 for Mobile and PC Hello Windows Insiders! Today we are excited to be releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14959 for Mobile and PC to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. The Windows 10 Creators Update Last week, we held an event in New York to share our aspiration to empower a new wave of creativity with the Windows 10 Creators Update and new devices such as the Surface Studio and Surface Dial. You can catch up on all the details on the things we announced at the event by checking out this blog post from Terry Myerson. As I mentioned last week, Windows is an iceberg, the features that people “see” are quite a small percent of the engineering work that we do to enable new UI to be visible. Windows Insiders [ more… ]

Why legal admin and film festival manager, Luci Hamilton, loves Surface “I truly believe that the Surface is a superior product for what we do in our industry.” Legal administrator Luci Hamilton at the 2016 Broad Humor Film Festival. No two days are the same when you’re managing a legal office, and efficiency counts. Surface saves Luci time every day as she runs from meeting to meeting and crisis to crisis. Initially she got Surface Pro because “I can take my desktop with me without having to carry a 100-pound laptop.” She was traveling a lot and just wanted something light but powerful. Surface works for Luci because she still gets the “prettiness of a tablet,” but gets to keep all her files with her. Luci has been a law practice management consultant for nearly 30 years, from the department [ more… ]