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The Ink Canvas and Ruler: combining art and technology How easy is it to integrate Inking into your app? As easy as one line of XAML. In this post, we’re going to walk you through the new Windows 10 Inking capabilities, which are making communication via writing and drawing easier than ever for users. You’ll learn how to implement these new capabilities in your Windows app and how they will improve your users’ experience. The easiest ways for Universal Windows Platform developers to hook into this capability is through the Ink Canvas. We’ll start out with some examples of this. The built-in experience There are many potential applications of Inking. As a starting point, it’s helpful to think of a typical user of Inking apps – for instance, an insurance adjuster who spends more time in the field than in [ more… ]

Project Emoji: The complete redesign The world loves emoji. What a strange phenomenon, right? They’re a whole new language. Descriptive metaphors packed into magical little glyphs. This week, the Windows 10 Anniversary Update delivered a breadth of optimized features to Windows customers worldwide. Among them is a new emoji keyboard, designed from the bottom-up with universality at its heart. Lately, emoji designers are trying to rethink some of the basic characterizations that tend to exclude people. The representation of the global community is lacking, and for its part, Microsoft leveraged the launch of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update to release over 1700 new glyphs, with a possible 52,000 combinations of diverse women, men, kids, babies, and families. They’ve completely overhauled their emoji for the better. The Microsoft Design Language Team embarked on Project Emoji, redesigning the emoji set from scratch [ more… ]

What’s new in Microsoft Edge with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update It’s been just over a year since we first introduced Microsoft Edge, the brand new browser for Windows 10. We took a new direction, establishing Microsoft Edge as a browser for doing more on the web, with reading tools, notetaking, and Cortana built-in.  We built it on top of the Universal Windows Platform, which includes our brand-new web rendering engine, EdgeHTML.  Altogether Microsoft Edge delivers a faster, more efficient, more compatible, more secure, and more productive experience to all Windows 10 customers. Over the last year we’ve been hard at work taking Microsoft Edge to the next level with features and improvements that make every part of the browser better. In the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, Microsoft Edge has support for browser extensions from the Windows Store, dozens of [ more… ]