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Forza Motorsport 6: Apex launches full version We’ve reached an important milestone in the development of Forza Motorsport 6: Apex – as of today, we’re lifting the “beta” tag and releasing Apex as a full-fledged (and still free!) product on the Windows 10 Store. We’re extremely excited to announce that today’s content update for Apex will bring wheel support to the Forza Motorsport series on Windows 10 for the first time. This is a major landmark for the Forza series on Windows 10 and has been the result of months of hard work from the Turn 10 and Windows teams. By adding wheel support to Forza Motorsport 6: Apex, we continue to work towards our goal of improving the Apex experience for players and making racing better on Windows 10. We recognize that today’s CU is just the beginning of [ more… ]

Building in 10k: Designing for Optimization and Performance Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of posts from the team that built the 10k Apart contest page, exploring the process of building for interoperability, accessibility, and progressive enhancement in less than 10kB. In the previous post in this series, I talked a lot about how the 10k Apart contest began to take shape in terms of markup. While I was busy doing that, Stephanie Stimac was tucking into the project form the design end of things. I’ll step back for a bit and let he talk about her process. Where do I begin? As I started poking through the wireframes and information architecture documents for the 10k Apart website, I realized I would have to approach this a little bit differently than other microsites I’ve designed in the [ more… ]

Announcing Intel® Joule™ support in Windows 10 IoT Core Anniversary Edition Two weeks ago I was excited to see us unveil Windows 10 IoT Core Anniversary Edition running on the new Intel® Joule™, built on the new Intel® Atom™ T5700 SOC. It took us a little over 6 weeks to bring up Windows 10 IoT Core and build Bamboo, the first Windows 10 IoT Core and Intel® Joule™ powered robot. We look forward to seeing what you think of Windows 10 IoT Core for the Intel® Joule™ when it becomes available as part of the Windows Insider Program release scheduled for September. Bamboo, the first Windows 10 IoT Core robot running on the Intel® Joule™ To give you a peek into what you can do with this we created Bamboo, a companion robotic panda. Running Windows 10 IoT Core on [ more… ]

This Week on Windows: IFA, pro football and a tour of the new Windows Store We hope you enjoyed this week’s episode of This Week on Windows! Take the tour of everything new in the Windows Store with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update in our Windows 10 Tips blog post, head over here to see all the Windows 10 devices announced at IFA, and keep reading for a great offer from Best Buy and everything new in the Windows Store this week! Save $150 on Lenovo Yoga 900 at Best Buy, Students can save an additional $150 From now until 9/3/16, Best Buy is offering $150 off the purchase of the Lenovo Yoga 900 and students can save an additional $150 off through Best Buy’s student portal. Customize your laptop experience to fit any occasion with this Lenovo Yoga 900 [ more… ]

Building in 10k: Markup for Accessibility, Clarity, and Affordance Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of posts from the team that built the 10k Apart contest page, exploring the process of building for interoperability, accessibility, and progressive enhancement in less than 10kB. In the previous post in this series, I talked a lot about how the 10k Apart contest site began to materialize in terms of structure and content. Once the planning was done, I was finally able to start building the site in earnest. Where do I begin? Generally, the first step I take in building any site is to drop some sample content into a fresh HTML document and then work my way through it, marking things up as I go. In the case of this project, I decided that sample content would be all [ more… ]