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Twenty years ago, a small group within Microsoft took on a seemingly audacious ambition at that time: to create a video game console from scratch and take on much more established competitors. Despite many obstacles, Xbox was born. And, over two decades, it became a lasting presence ubiquitous...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22509 to the Dev Channel. TL;DR This build includes a set of improvements that make browsing the web in Microsoft Edge with Narrator easier. This build includes a good set of improvements including new layout...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22499 to the Dev Channel. TL;DR We are beginning to roll out the ability to quickly share the content from open app windows directly from your taskbar to your meeting calls starting with Microsoft Teams. You asked...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22494 to the Dev Channel. TL;DR We are beginning to roll out the ability to mute or unmute your microphone from the Taskbar starting with Microsoft Teams. This build includes a good set of fixes for some impactful...

Hi All, Is there an ftplib or some such for Windows? Many thanks, -T

I would like to use the vst plugins i found on the web to enhance windows audio and everything on the computer. Is there a way to do this. Can you develop One Please.

Developing for Windows 11 Windows 11 was built to unlock the full power of the PC. This new operating system empowers you to deliver new and innovative apps, grow your business how you choose, and makes developing on Windows easier by allowing you to use the tools and frameworks you already use...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22449 to the Dev Channel. You may notice that this build number is higher than the Windows 11 preview builds you’ve been receiving. That’s because we’re moving the Dev Channel back to receiving builds from our active...

Before moving to Seattle with her husband seven years ago, Priya Chauhan had never worked in digital design. She came from the print publishing world, where she worked on children's books, coffee table books, travel guides, catalogs, window display posters, chocolate and biscuit tins and all...

Is there any way to run command line tools at start up while keeping them hidden? I am working on a PHP script that will share a Windows scanner with MacOS, Linux and Android over the eSCL/Airscan protocol. There is at least one tool "dns-sd" (Apple Bonjour) that I need to launch as a command...

Rust for Windows v0.9 has recently been released and includes full consumption support, along with several other updates! With completed consumption support, you can now call any Windows APIs (past, present, and future) using the Rust language projection. Rust developers have access to the...

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After many months of invigorating the Windows Community Toolkit with a multitude of improvements and features; we are happy to announce version 7.0 is available today! Made possible again with the support and contributions of our developer community.🎉 If you are new to the Toolkit, the Windows...

Uno Platform is a free and open-source platform aiming to take WinUI applications built with C# and XAML everywhere. If you are not familiar with WinUI, it is the native UX platform for building Windows applications - you can learn more about it on the Link Removed. With Uno Platform you can...

The C#/WinRT team is excited to announce our latest release, which includes a preview of C#/WinRT authoring with the latest C#/WinRT NuGet package, as well as updates to the .NET 5.0 SDK with the .NET February update. Since our last blog post on C#/WinRT v1.0, we have some new features to show...

In every one of the billion Windows 10 devices worldwide, there is a GPU for accelerating your AI tasks. From photo editing applications enabling new user experiences through AI to tools that help you train machine learning models for your applications with little effort, DirectML accelerates...

Today, we’re happy to share our support for Open Web Docs, a new collective launching today which is dedicated to sustainably supporting high-quality, browser-agnostic, community-driven web developer documentation. Open Web Docs employs full-time writing staff to support the development and...

I am trying to write a tool that queries all devices on the platform that have firmware. However, I can't find any information on how to access the firmware. Take for example, the Elan Touchpad on my device has firmware. However I can't seem to find a way to access it to extract it and analyze...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20277 (FE_RELEASE) to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. Starting today, we are giving Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel the option to receive builds from the RS_PRERELEASE branch. These builds will be offered as...

I am attempting to write a tool that is able to read and write firmware on any hardware device that has firmware. I cannot find any resources on YouTube, Google, or the Windows Developer API. Is it even possible to access any firmware on the Device?