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Help users resume your app seamlessly after a Windows update Windows PCs require a restart to apply each month’s security updates. Today we’re offering tips and best practices that can help you make sure your applications seamlessly resume after a restart and keep your app users happy. Some users manage Windows updates (and restarts) for themselves. Others prefer that their PCs automatically restart when not in use. In either case, users typically prefer to find their applications exactly as they left them after an update. Their flow on Windows is more productive and fun when apps restore their state, position and pending operations following an update. What does this mean for you as an application developer? If your app is documentation-focused, you might want to help people remember where in the document they were editing most recently. If your app [ more… ]

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23506 Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23506 to the Dev Channel. We are releasing ISOs for this build – they can be downloaded here. What’s new in Build 23506 Passwordless experience with Windows Hello for Business With Windows Hello for Business (WHFB), Windows provides organizations with a strong, phish-resistant credential, helping customers move to a passwordless future. Enterprise customers can now set the EnablePasswordlessExperience policy that promotes a user experience on AAD joined machines for core authentication scenarios without requiring a password. This new experience hides passwords from certain Windows authentication scenarios and leverages passwordless recovery mechanisms, such as WHFB PIN reset, if necessary. Once the policy is set, it removes passwords from the user experience, both for device logon as well as in-session auth scenarios like password [ more… ]

Dev Home Preview 0.3 Release We’re back with another release for Dev Home! This release updates Dev Home Preview to version 0.3 and the Dev Home GitHub extension to version 0.3 as well. You can install Dev Home from the Microsoft Store or from the GitHub releases page. Let’s get into what’s new. 😊 Rearrangeable widgets You read right! Widgets can now be rearranged in the Dev Home dashboard by clicking and dragging. 🎉 We’ve also fixed the bug where your widgets would get randomly rearranged, so your preferred dashboard layout should now remain intact. Miscellaneous improvements 🛠️ The GitHub query is now displayed when adding an issue or pull request widget with a URL containing filters. 🛠️ Empty widgets show a message rather than nothing. 🛠️ In the repository review and repository tool dialogs, long names are now truncated. [ more… ]

Get PC titles for less through Microsoft Store Ultimate Game Sale Looking for a good deal on new PC titles to add to your collection? Check out the Microsoft Store Ultimate Game Sale, which runs through July 31 with discounts on select Xbox and PC games, PC accessories and Xbox console bundles. Top PC titles on sale include “Disney Speedstorm Deluxe Founders Pack,” “Sunshine Island” and “Flight Sim – Premium Deluxe” – but you’ll find hundreds more to choose from. Plus, save up to 50% on select Microsoft accessories for your PC device. Head over to Xbox Wire to get all the details on the sale. Source: Get PC titles for less through Microsoft Store Ultimate Game Sale