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If you woke up this morning and tried to access Microsoft 365, you may have found yourself locked out of your digital arsenal thanks to a widespread outage. Around 9 AM UTC today, countless users began reporting issues with accessing the Microsoft 365 website, with Downdetector receiving a surge...

In a surprising move that affects many users, Microsoft has officially announced the termination of support for its Mail, Calendar, and People apps on Windows 11 by December 31, 2024. This shift marks a significant pivot toward a more web-centric user experience, embodied by the new web-based...

The landscape of AI applications just got a new addition with Claude AI launching its very own Windows application. Similar to the approach taken by ChatGPT, Claude’s app is essentially a simple Electron wrapper that loads the website at claude.ai within a Chromium container. This may raise...

For many of our customers, kiosk mode in Microsoft Edge Legacy acts as a key touchpoint for both their frontline workers and their own customers. Whether it’s associates helping customers on a retail floor or employees accessing critical tools and apps, kiosk mode has provided a customizable...

Earlier this year, we met with users to understand how they felt about permissioned web features, such as requests to send notifications or access the camera or microphone. The individuals we spoke with made it clear they find notification requests bothersome and distracting—except when they...

The new Microsoft Edge is now out of preview and available for download, with today’s release of our first Stable channel build (Microsoft Edge 79 stable). You can download the new Microsoft Edge today at Link Removed. In this post, we’ll walk through what you can expect now that the new Edge...

We’re thrilled to announce that today’s Windows Insider build enables Service Workers by default in Microsoft Edge for the first time. This is an exciting milestone for us and for the web! These new APIs allow the web to offer better experiences when devices are offline or have limited...

Babylon.js is an open source framework that allows you to easily create stunning 3D experiences in your browser or your web apps. Built with simplicity and performance in mind, it is the engine that fuels the Remix3D site, Link Removed or 3D objects preview in Link Removed or Link Removed on...

Editor’s note: This continues the series we began last week, highlighting what’s new and improved in the Microsoft Edge DevTools with EdgeHTML 16. As the web platform evolves, the line between web and application developers continues to blur. It’s common now for a web site to be more like a web...

Today, we’re beginning to roll out the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update to Windows 10 customers around the world. This release upgrades Microsoft Edge to EdgeHTML 16, the best version of Microsoft Edge yet. The Fall Creators Update also includes new enhancements like improved favorites management...

In this post, we’ll introduce you to a text technology called color fonts. We’ll discuss what color fonts are, when they can be useful and how to use them in your Windows 10 apps. What are color fonts? Color fonts, also referred to as “multicolor fonts” or “chromatic fonts,” are a relatively...

Link Removed Figure 1 Sign-up at Link Removed On the heels of the Build conferences these last few years, we have had the pleasure of meeting thousands of developers around the world. Their feedback and technical insight has helped us to continue the tradition and explore more technical depth...

Editor’s Note – this post was originally posted on Medium and has been updated to reflect the latest information. Let’s talk about the progress of web apps. No, that’s not an autocorrect mistake from “progressive web apps” — let’s take a look at how the web has progressed from “a large...

**IMPORTANT-MUST READ** WinBeta just posted a article on a Silverlight & Flash app bug that's going around now. Hackers bypass Microsoft's EMET exploit blocker to infect Silverlight and Flash apps Heres a link to where they found out about it. Link Removed

Karthik Bharathy joins Scott on Azure Friday to teach him about Power Apps! You'll see how quickly you can create an app and connect it to the cloud using PowerApps. This is PowerApps 101. Link Removed Continue reading...

Daniel Roth overviews ASP.NET 5 and ASP.NET MVC 6. He explains the guiding principles behind ASP.NET MVC 6, and overviews application development, pointing out some important new features in both ASP.NET MVC and Web API. Link Removed Link Removed

Scott speaks with Matthew Snider about Azure Service Fabric. The Service Fabric is the system that is underlying Windows Azure itself, and it's now being made available as a programming model for developers to create "Born in the Cloud" applications. How do apps live, work, and scale beyond just...

So many great posts, so many new authors, so much great news! Here are just 23 of the shows, episodes and post from last week. But of course the big news was the release of Visual Studio 2015. If you missed the launch event, you can catch it all on demand here, Link Removed Link Removed This...

Here are just 15 posts from the many released last week. Remember, so see almost everything that's new, check out https://channel9.msdn.com/Browse Link Removed This week on Channel 9, Nikola and guest host Dave Crawford discuss the week's top developer news, including; ... Link Removed...

This post was written by Josh Rennert, Program Manager, Web Apps & Frameworks team We received great feedback and insight from our WinJS 4.0-Preview, released earlier this year. Now, the time has finally arrived. With the imminent release of Windows 10, we are proud to announce WinJS 4.0. You...