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New extensions for the Microsoft Edge browser continue to trickle into the Windows Store in Windows 10. Extensions for the Edge browser officially became available in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update released on the 2nd of August this year however, only 17 extensions have been made available...

Starting today the Windows 10 Anniversary Update will begin rolling out for our customers around the world*. The Windows 10 Anniversary Update is full of new features and innovations that bring Windows Ink and Cortana** to life; a faster, more accessible and more power-efficient Microsoft Edge...

In recent years it seems like nearly every browser under the sun has become a clone of google chrome in some form or fashion. From Opera,to Maxthon, to Edge to even Firefox looking more like chrome then it does its own browser. Its attack of the chrome clones and its gotten very stale and...

We’ve been talking about Windows 10 for over a year now and today we started our next chapter, with new devices designed for Windows 10. Today I stood on stage in NYC along with members of my team and had the honor of unveiling a new era of Windows 10 devices from Microsoft. We introduced new...

Just a couple months ago I highlighted one of our favorite refactoring/analyzer projects, Refactoring Essentials - Open Source, Cross Platform Refactoring and Analyzers. Well the team is on a tear, with Andreas Weizel announcing that Refactoring Essentials v2 is now available in preview...

The SharePoint Server 2016 IT Preview Datasheet provides an overview of new capabilities and investments in SharePoint Server 2016 Preview. Link Removed

In this short video Rowan takes us through a different approach to generating keys in Entity Framework 7 using sequences. This approach is interesting in cases of large INSERT batches primarily because keys are all fetched beforehand. Would love your thoughts! Here are some links for more...

The new unified Windows Dev Center is now open for Windows 10 app submissions. Dev Center launched a number of new features yesterday, summarized by Todd Brix. In this post I’ll share more details about what’s new: App submissions New submit Windows 10 app packages Update manage app packages...

Hi everyone, We have a new build for PCs releasing today to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring – Build 10158. This build is full of improvements to stability and quality as well as some additional UI polish. It also has some great new features included for Microsoft Edge as well. Here is what’s...

Oculus VR, a leader in virtual reality, shared some details on what fans can expect to see when the Oculus Rift launches in 2016 earlier today at event in San Francisco and Head of Xbox Phil Spencer joined their CEO on stage to discuss a new partnership with Microsoft. Link Removed Through...

Next week we will begin the migration of accounts to the new Windows Dev Center dashboard. You can expect account migration to take place in waves – starting next week and extending into July. The migrations are scheduled based on account feature usage, for example starting with accounts that...

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In this episode of Data Exposed, Scott Welcomes Ken Van Hyning, a Principle Software Engineer in the SQL Server team. Today Ken introduces us to the SQL Server 2016 Upgrade Advisor, code named DBA Workbench, a tool that consists of a suite of advisors for upgrading to SQL Server 2016. Ken begins...

Microsoft releases build 10080 for Windows 10 Mobile so Fast Ring Insiders can try the new Office Preview apps and several other new additions. read more Continue reading...

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser will be no more. The computing giant confirmed that a new browser will be created and will feature in upcoming versions of Windows. Microsoft is planning to launch their new browser with Windows 10. Continue reading...

I've highlighted MonoGame a number of times but it's always been dependent on XNA, which has been dead for a few years now, making it a little complicated to use. Until last week. MonoGame has just reached a huge milestone and has left XNA behind for good... Here are just a few of our MonoGame...

Hi everyone, I’m happy to announce we’re rolling out Build 10041 for PCs to the Fast ring. Like all of the previous preview builds this one comes with a collection of new functionality and bug fixes. The build will only be available through Windows Update for systems already running a previous...

Windows Update gets a new home in Windows 10 Build 9926. read more Continue reading...

Hi If anyone hasn't already seen this video, here it is. This is about build 9888... I think is says that this will be available in early December. Mike

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