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  1. Better battery life with Microsoft Edge

    There’s a good chance you’ve noticed that Microsoft Edge and other popular browsers have recently been focused on improving battery life. We’ve been paying particular attention to this with Windows 10, and the response has been great. Windows users spend more than half their time on the web, so...
  2. ART "interactive" demo

    www.idius.net/ppp the above "interactive" demo is spot on … changing the values (right side) slightly will dramatically alter the appearance of the diagram. example: change value from "k2: -0.012" to "k2: -0.002" … don't forget to hit "enter" on keyboard to...
  3. Building in 10k: Svelte JavaScript Enhancements

    Editor’s note: This is the fifth in a series of posts from the team that built the 10k Apart contest site, exploring the process of building for interoperability, accessibility, and progressive enhancement in less than 10kB. In the previous post in this series, I discussed my approach to CSS...
  4. Building in 10k: Markup for Accessibility, Clarity, and Affordance

    Editor’s note: This is part two 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...
  5. Building in 10k: Content and Strategy

    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. When Link Removed first approached me about bringing back the 10k...
  6. 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...
  7. Introducing EdgeHTML 14 with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update

    Earlier this week, the Windows 10 Anniversary Update began rolling out to over 350 million Windows 10 devices. With this release, we’re proud to introduce EdgeHTML 14, the third and most significant update to the Microsoft Edge web platform since our initial release just one year ago...
  8. Introducing the Speech Synthesis API in Microsoft Edge

    Starting with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, Microsoft Edge will support the Speech Synthesis APIs defined in the W3C Web Speech API Specification. These APIs allow websites to convert text to audible speech with customizable voice and language settings. With them, website developers can add...
  9. Building a more accessible user experience with HTML5 and UIA

    Recently, we introduced Microsoft Edge’s new accessibility architecture, which inherently supports modern web standards, and provides a foundation to make the web platform more accessible than ever. To build a comprehensive ecosystem across all products and users of every ability, assistive...
  10. Windows XP Videos in fullscreen getting dark (backlight) in dark scenes

    Hello, once again I have a question. This time it is about my computer in my sleeproom, that I use often for watchign series oder movies when in bed. This computer is running Windows XP and has a weird phenomena: While I watch movies/series/videos in a browser (fullscreen) and the scenes are...
  11. Moving to HTML5 Premium Media

    The commercial media industry is undergoing a major transition as content providers move away from proprietary web plug-in based delivery mechanisms (such as Flash or Silverlight), and replace them with unified plug-in free video players that are based on HTML5 specifications and commercial...
  12. Remember the cool HP Sprout? There's now Emulator available!

    Okay, so this isn't a Visual Studio Extension, but I figure cool SDK's are a good Monday fit too... Link Removed The Link Removed made a big splash when it was announced, but since it's been a little quite. I personally wasn't following much about it because I didn't have a Sprout and you...
  13. Introducing srcset, our first step towards fully responsive images in Microsoft Edge

    Windows 10 Insider builds recently introduced support for srcset, our first step on the path to fully supporting the picture element for responsive images. In this post we’d like to share more about our initial implementation of srcset in Windows 10 and our strategy for bringing more components...
  14. VIDEO Flight Arcade, VorlonJS, ManifoldJS and Living on the Edge...

    Today is a play and learn day. Last month at Build 2015, Microsoft Edge was introduced using a new web app/game that reimagined the age old Flight Simulator in a web world. Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed What's great is that not only can you play the game, but you can learn how it...
  15. Announcing Dolby Audio for high performance audio in Microsoft Edge

    Web browser media experiences have advanced significantly in recent years, from the first releases of HTML5 media, through the subsequent additions of Media Source Extensions for adaptive streaming and Encrypted Media Extensions for content protection. And formats have been similarly advanced by...
  16. Bringing Asm.js to Chakra and Microsoft Edge

    A couple of months back, we Link Removed that we had started development on Asm.js. Support for Asm.js Link Removed one of the top 10 most-requested items at the Link Removed on UserVoice since we launched it Link Removed. Since that time, we’ve made good progress, and in Windows 10 Insider...
  17. A break from the past, part 2: Saying goodbye to ActiveX, VBScript, attachEvent…

    We recently posted “A break from the past: the birth of Microsoft’s new web rendering engine”, an in-depth look at the background and motivation behind building a new rendering engine to power Microsoft Edge. A key factor described was the ability to make a break from legacy Internet...
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    Windows 7 64 bit compaq excessive data browsing the web

    My old lady has a win 7 64 bit Compaq. every morning about 5 am she browses sites like msn, yahoo, aquabit, outlook webmail. Until about 6 am. During this time 250 to 500+ MB are used. She being the only connection. I shut down all auto updates. I took all browser off but IE 11. Searched virus...
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    Windows 7 Which Win7-Pro VM comes closest to Steady State?

    I've been reading some informative threads on Virtual PC etc, but still have not come to the conclusion as to which VM is best for my purposes. I have zero experience running a VM. My AMD64 bit APU is qualified. I installed Virtual PC and it appears that I must re-install from system DVD. Can...
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    Windows 8 Microsoft releases "By The Numbers" website

    Microsoft has launched a new site which features beautiful HTML5 content showing in detail the number of users, apps, etc behind their many services. I think the most amazing is 18 billion hours of Xbox Live played in 2012 or 2 billion Skype minutes are used daily...