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Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 10565
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Hi everyone, Today we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 10565 to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. This build has quite a few new features and improvements so we’re really excited to get this one out to you for you to try out. One thing I want to call out up front is that this build and associated Language Packs won’t be available until later this week for Windows Insiders in Russia and Turkey. Here’s what’s new in this build: Skype messaging, calling and video experience: As we’ve announced previously, Skype messaging, calling and video capabilities will come integrated into Windows 10 through the Messaging, Phone and Skype video universal Window…
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Acer Unveils New Line of Windows 10-optimized Laptops and All-in-ones
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Acer held a Windows 10 event in Taipei today at the Grand Hyatt to show just how well its new line of notebooks and all-in-one PCs take advantage of great Windows 10 features like Cortana, Continuum, Microsoft Edge, and the Xbox app. At the event, Acer announced two new devices that bring Windows 10 front and center: the Aspire R 14 convertible notebook, and the Aspire Z3-700 portable all-in-one PC. Both devices are optimized with top-of-the-line audio to take advantage of Cortana’s functionality, and both feature Acer’s BluelightShield technology. Additionally, Acer showed off the Liquid Jade Primo smartphone, with Continuum, which links PCs and Windows 10 phones t…
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Acer Showcases New Windows 10 Devices in Taipei
by Guest Terry Myerson- 0 replies
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Our trip around the world unveiling new Windows 10 devices continued today in Taipei, where I was honored to join Acer CEO Jason Chen to unveil Windows 10 devices from Acer. Acer showcased a range of new devices, enabling Windows 10 devices to be accessible to everyone from office workers to students to people in emerging markets around the world. The Aspire R14 convertible notebook and the Aspire Z3-700 portable all-in-one PC are built to deliver Windows 10 experiences – great for productivity or entertainment – including Cortana, gaming, Microsoft Edge and Skype. Both devices are optimized with top-of-the-line audio to take advantage of Cortana’s functionality, and b…
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ASUS Together with Windows 10 Reinvigorates PC Gaming at ROG Unleashed
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Today ASUS introduced the new Republic of Gaming (ROG) PC gaming hardware lineup at ROG Unleashed in San Francisco. The new ROG line up, together with Windows 10 brings some fantastic hardware for PC gamers. ASUS Chairman Jonney Shih was joined on stage by Terry Myerson, who showed the best new features designed to help PC gamers get the most out of their ROG machines, including DirectX 12 technology, Game DVR and Xbox One game streaming. Together they showcased how the ROG PCs with Windows 10 and Intel’s 6th Generation Processors truly make the ROG lineup a great choice for PC gamers. There’s also an exciting special offer so keep reading! Windows 10 With Windows…
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ASUS Announces New Gaming PCs Built for Windows 10
by Guest Terry Myerson- 0 replies
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Today I had the pleasure of joining ASUS Chairman, Jonney Shih onstage at ROG Unleashed in San Francisco. Jonney and team introduced the new Republic of Gaming (ROG) hardware line- up, built exclusively on Windows 10. Incredible new gaming devices were showcased, including the all-new ROG GX700, ROG G752, and ROG G20 Compact Desktop PL. Our team has worked closely with ASUS to develop these new great gaming PCs. ASUS was able to test, work with our engineering team, and use DirectX 12 technology early in the development process to make the most of this advanced technology in their new hardware. Gaming is core to our commitment to deliver innovative experiences and…
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Pinball FX2 Windows 10 Edition is Now Available
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Pinball FX2 Windows 10 Edition is now available, you can download it from the Windows Store for free today! A classic arcade game becomes a whole new adventure with the original pinball tables of Pinball FX2. Delivering some of the hottest brands in entertainment – names like Star Wars, Marvel and The Walking Dead – this game features next-generation graphics, new achievements and a slick interface. With support for touch, keyboard-and-mouse or controller play, Pinball FX2 Windows 10 Edition puts an awesome new spin on a favorite game. You can even sign in with your Gamertag to earn Xbox Live achievements! Finally, an exciting feature coming soon to Pinball FX2 …
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Microsoft shows the world device paradise, Satya Nadella visits Latin America, and Internet...
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This week was a gadget-lovers paradise. Let’s discuss amongst ourselves. In New York Tuesday morning, Microsoft unveiled a new era of Windows 10 devices, including new Surface, Lumia and Band devices. Among the new devices was Surface Pro 4 (now thinner, lighter and faster), new Lumia Phones (Lumia 950, Lumia 950 XL and Lumia 550), the Microsoft Band 2, and the much-buzzed-about Surface Book (the new, ultimate laptop that brings together best-in-class performance with the versatility of pen and touch). HP and Dell also released some powerful new devices, with Dell joining Windows and Devices Marketing Corporate Vice President Yusuf Mehdi on stage in New Yor…
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Dell brings Windows 10 to Life with New XPS Devices
by Guest Yusuf Mehdi- 0 replies
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I am honored to join Dell today in New York City to showcase several of the newest XPS devices, optimized especially for Windows 10. It’s been an amazing journey to get to this point, with over a year of deep collaboration on new experiences, the positive early reception of Windows 10 which is now running on over 110 million devices worldwide, and now the chance to introduce the new XPS family to the world. Dell has been an amazing partner throughout, helping to unlock new customer value and choice, being one of the first to ship Windows 10 on new PCs this summer, partnering on the Surface Enterprise alliance, and joining us now as we celebrate all the innovative new devi…
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HP Offers Premium Windows 10 PCs for the World
by Guest Terry Myerson- 0 replies
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Yesterday, we kicked off the next chapter of Windows 10, with new devices designed for Windows 10. We started with Microsoft devices, where we are investing in hardware experiences to reinvent device categories. Immediately after our event in New York, I flew to Barcelona to join HP to unveil their Windows 10 consumer devices. HP and Microsoft have a long history of working together, where HP has brought Windows to people everywhere in the world. Today, HP announced new premium PCs that feature one-of-kind hardware in sleek industrial designs, bright high-resolution displays and Audio by Bang & Olufsen. New devices include HP Spectre x2, HP ENVY 8 Note, HP N…
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HP Announces New PCs Built to Deliver Amazing Experiences Made Possible by Windows 10
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Today in Barcelona, Spain Terry Myerson joined HP to announce new premium PCs. You can read more from Terry here. The new devices from HP feature one-of-kind form factors in sleek industrial designs, bright high-resolution displays and Audio by Bang & Olufsen. Delivering amazing Windows 10 experiences, each PC is built with powerful processors and will help customers do great things. HP’s amazing hardware lineup shows off Windows 10 at its best, and we’re proud to share the following products HP announced, just in time for the 2015 holiday season! There are special offers for HP devices happening right now in Microsoft Stores, on Microsoft.com, HP.com, and parti…
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Microsoft unveils new era of Windows 10 devices at event in NYC
by Guest Athima Chansanchai- 0 replies
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In New York Tuesday morning, Microsoft unveiled a new era of Windows 10 devices, including new Surface, Lumia and Band devices. “Our approach to hardware is to create and reinvent categories – like we did with Xbox and Xbox Live, with Surface being the tablet that can replace your laptop, with Lumia and Continuum, with Surface Hub, and of course with HoloLens being the only platform enabling you to mix holograms into your world,” writes Terry Myerson, executive vice president, Operating Systems, in a blog post. Among the new devices built to make the most of Windows 10: Surface Book (the new, ultimate laptop that brings together best-in-class performance with the ve…
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A New Era of Windows 10 Devices from Microsoft
by Guest Terry Myerson- 0 replies
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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 Surface, Lumia, and Band devices and shared the latest from HoloLens, and Xbox. I’ve been using these devices for months and couldn’t wait to share them with you today. Windows 10: Off to the Hottest Start in History In just a few short months, it’s been incredible to see more than 110 million devices already running Windows 10. I’m personally humbled and excited to see pe…
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Business Customers and Windows 10
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Today, Terry Myerson shared more than 110 million devices are already running Windows 10, including over 8 million business PCs already running Windows 10. Read below to see what business customers have to say about Windows 10. “By optimizing the Spark 3D printing platform for Windows 10, we are empowering both Windows users and Microsoft developers to tap the potential of additive manufacturing.” Samir Hanna, Vice President and General Manager, Consumer and 3DPrinting, Autodesk “The new Lumia phones are a real game changer for both enterprise I.T. and Microsoft, for the first time we have a unified enterprise ready operating system across both traditional PC and mo…
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App Partners & Windows 10
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Today, Terry Myerson shared the Windows Store has had over 1.25 billion visits since the launch of Windows 10, with developer revenue per download increasing four times. Myerson announced Facebook will be building universal Windows apps for Facebook, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger. And, new universal Windows apps coming to Windows 10 include Box, Candy Crush Soda Saga, Flipagram, NASCAR, Uber and many, many more. To see what Windows 10 app partners have to say about Windows 10, read below… “Facebook is all in on Windows 10 – we’re excited to build Universal Windows Apps for Facebook, Facebook Messenger, and Instagram.” Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, Facebook “Box for Wind…
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The concerns around Windows 10 and privacy have been voiced regularly across the Internet since the new operating system was released in late July. Recently, we even reviewed the extensive privacy settings that are available in Windows 10 to show you how you can control the level of data that is shared with Microsoft and apps on your Windows 10 system. Microsoft has been listening to these concerns as they have released several resources to answer your questions about privacy and now it appears they have added specific options to control two areas that have been part of that Windows 10 criticism. These new options appear when you are installing Windows 10 as of b…
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Researchers have uncovered a new malware threat affecting iOS devices which they say uses techniques that have slipped by Apple App Store's strict code review before. Researchers say newly-discovered malware, dubbed YiSpecter, can infect non-jailbroken as well as jailbroken iPhone and iPad devices, using a number of novel techniques. The YiSpecter malware is unusual on a number of fronts, according to security firm Palo Alto Networks, chiefly because it is the first malware in the wild that exploits the iOS system's private APIs - the APIs in iOS that remain undocumented by Apple, possibly because they're not ready for wider use. What's bad about this particular …
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Mark Your Calendars – Exciting #Windows10devices news starts on Tuesday
by Guest The Windows Team- 0 replies
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With over 75 million devices already running Windows 10, we’re excited to kick off our next chapter. On Tuesday, make sure you tune in to see news about Windows 10 devices from Microsoft. You can watch live – starting at 10:00 am EDT – online or on your Xbox. The show will also be available on-demand. You can mark your calendar, or bookmark the livestream here. Then, over the next few weeks, in conjunction with our partners, we will share exciting news about their new devices designed for Windows 10 at events happening around the world. Microsoft executives, including Terry Myerson, Nick Parker, Yusuf Mehdi and Joe Belfiore will join partners at their press events. …
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Havok to join Microsoft
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Today, we are proud to announce that Microsoft has acquired Havok, the leading provider of 3D physics, from Intel. As we welcome Havok to the Microsoft family, we will continue to work with developers to create great gaming experiences, and continue to license Havok’s development tools to partners. We believe that Havok is a fantastic addition to Microsoft’s existing tools and platform components for developers, including DirectX 12, Visual Studio and Microsoft Azure. Havok is an amazing technology supplier in the games industry and the leading real-time physics creator. We saw an opportunity to acquire Havok to deliver great experiences for our fans. Throughout the…
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Inside Microsoft’s futuristic hardware labs, helping disaster recovery in Nepal and geeking...
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A lot of cool stuff happened this week, so let’s dig in! Microsoft’s /stories team published “Inside B87,” a rich, immersive look at what’s behind the nondescript exterior of Microsoft’s Building 87 in Redmond, Wash. Turns out it’s some of the world’s top hardware labs, where brilliant minds are transforming visions of tomorrow into tangible technology. Peek inside the futuristic labs to explore the world’s quietest room, a human-sized light box and industrial sewing machines for smart fabrics. The all-new Microsoft JobsBlog introduced us to the fun team behind Cortana’s wit and personality. The team includes recent grads still pinching themselves for landing th…
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Employee giving changes lives, for a lifetime…
by Guest Lori Forte Harnick- 0 replies
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Suveen Reddy is passionate about volunteering. Shortly after joining Microsoft in 2001, Suveen, a senior program manager, visited his grandparents’ rural farming village in India. While spending time with family, he learned about their friend, Madhava, whose vision rapidly deteriorated into near blindness. He could no longer take care of daily responsibilities on his farm. “Though he was only 55, his family thought his vision was deteriorating because of old age,” Suveen said. “I paid him a visit and talked to his family, but they didn’t have the money to take him to the hospital.” The next day, Suveen took Madhava to the hospital and learned from a doctor that h…
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Explore three futuristic Microsoft hardware labs
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Some of the world’s most extraordinary hardware labs are hidden behind the nondescript exterior of Microsoft’s Building 87 in Redmond, Wash. Inside the labs, small teams of experts work to turn their vision of tomorrow into tangible technology, making essential contributions to products including Surface, HoloLens and Cortana. The tools of their trade are just as unique. Building 87 contains industrial sewing machines for smart fabrics, a human-sized light box and even the world’s quietest room. Take this virtual tour of Building 87 to experience a world few have ever seen. Continue reading...
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Candy Crush Soda Saga is here for Windows 10
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Candy Crush Soda Saga is now available for Windows 10! You can download it for free from the Windows Store, and for a limited time get a great deal on a package of Gold Bars, boosters and two hours of unlimited lives – through October 5. Enjoy all the candies, game modes (check out Frosting and Honey modes!), juicy environments and mouth-watering graphics in this sugary, fun-filled puzzle adventure. Cross the sugar desert to get to Coconut Cream Mirage, and play all 510 sugar-shock-inducing levels. Download Candy Crush Soga Saga for Windows 10 today. Continue reading...
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Some Great Ways to Use Web Note in Microsoft Edge
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When we first started designing Microsoft Edge, we asked ourselves how people are using the web differently today than they did a decade ago. For one, there’s just so much more content online than ever before. Our research told us that people need tools to capture and organize all the content they encounter each day, and to go even further, to personalize and share that content with others. Web Note is a new Microsoft Edge feature that starts to address this customer need. Web Note lets you take a snapshot of a web page and mark up the page with typed notes and digital ink. You can save Web Notes to your device or share them with others. Here are a few ways Web Note…
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Make Your Meetings More Personal with Cortana + LinkedIn
by Guest The Windows Team- 0 replies
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As a truly personal digital assistant, Cortana* is there to help people get things done, and like a real assistant, works with experts to help you accomplish a wide range of tasks. Today we’re excited to announce that Cortana is ready to make you even more connected and informed by working with LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network. If you are already using the Windows 10 Mail & Calendar apps, you’ll be used to getting Cortana’s meeting reminders. And now, those will get even more helpful with the addition of rich information about the people you are meeting with provided by LinkedIn and included in every meeting reminder. When you connect your LinkedI…
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Imagine the Future of Football and You Could Win $50,000 and a Trip to Super Bowl 50!
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At Microsoft, we have a goal to empower every human being on the planet to achieve more. That simple philosophy shines through in everything we do, including our current partnership with the NFL. Whether you’re a casual football fan or have a dozen Fantasy Football teams, you’ve probably seen some of the exciting new work being done this season with our partners at the NFL – from Surfaces on the Sidelines to Next Gen Stats on Xbox One and Windows 10. Together with the NFL, we’re making the game faster, smarter and more data-driven, and we believe it’s just the beginning of what’s possible when technology is introduced to the game in smart new ways. As the NFL ce…