Month: July 2017

Coming off the most watched Halo esports broadcast ever in the Halo World Championship 2017 Finals, the Halo Championship Series and Halo 5: Guardians continue to reach landmark achievements well into the year. Last weekend, DreamHack Atlanta played home to the Summer 2017 Finals of the Halo Championship Series and saw a record-setting number of participants for the league. With 93 total teams and almost 300 Free-for-All players in attendance, DreamHack Atlanta was not only the biggest open event for Halo 5: Guardians, but the biggest since the Halo Championship Series first kicked off nearly three years ago. Featuring a… Continue reading HCS Summer 2017 Finals at DreamHack Atlanta Sees Record-Setting Participation→

This week on Channel 9, guest hosts Christina Warren and Beth Pan discuss the week’s top developer news, including;

• [00:21] Beth Pan
• [00:30] Christina Warren
• [00:38] Microsoft Bounty Programs
• [01:11] Fast and Easy Containers: Azure Container Instances [Corey Sanders]
• [01:48] Register now for Microsoft Edge Web Summit 2017 [Kyle Pflug]
• [02:15] New Extensions for Visual Studio 2017
• [03:02] Second version of HoloLens HPU will incorporate AI coprocessor for implementing DNNs [Marc Pollefeys]
• [04:01] Building the Xamarin.Forms NuGet [David Ortinau]
• [05:15] Trainy McTrainface: Swedish rail firm approves name following online poll [Reuters in Stockholm]
• [05:59] Meet your 2017 Imagine Cup champions – Team X.GLU of the Czech Republic!, 2017 World Championship on Channel 9
• [07:03] Get Started with F# as a C# developer [Phillip Carter]
• [08:01] Microsoft Virtual Academy

Picks of the Week!

• Christina’s Pick of the Week:[08:14] Windows 10 Creators Update fully available for all Windows 10 customers [John Cable]
• Beth’s Pick of the Week:[08:58] MS Paint is here to stay [Megan Saunders]

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We know you’re busy and might miss out on all the exciting things we’re talking about on Xbox Wire every week. If you’ve got a few minutes, we can help remedy that. We’ve pared down the past week’s news into one easy-to-digest article for all things Xbox! Or, if you’d rather watch than read, you can feast your eyes on our weekly video show below above featuring the one and only Major Nelson. Be sure to come back every Friday to find out what’s happening This Week on Xbox! Xbox Game Pass: Dead Rising 3, Limbo, DiRT Rally and More… Continue reading This Week on Xbox: July 28, 2017→

For some apps (especially games) it is not uncommon for the app to get into a state where it needs to restart – perhaps after a license update, after installing downloadable content, its caches have become corrupt or unwieldy, or for any other reason where the app needs to refresh state from scratch. In earlier […] Continue reading How to Restart your App Programmatically→

Microsoft OneDrive recognized as a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Content Collaboration Platforms
 
Enabling secure ways to share and collaborate on content with people inside and outside your organization is critical to improving teamwork a… Continue reading OneDrive recognized as a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant→

Forza fans are used to a massive variety of cars in Forza Horizon 3; from dune buggies to sport trucks to hypercars, and more. Starting next week, players will be able to drive a car unlike anything else in the game with the upcoming addition of the Regalia from Final Fantasy XV to the Forza Horizon 3 lineup. Beginning on August 1, Forza Horizon 3 and Final Fantasy XV players will be able to download and enjoy the Regalia in Forza Horizon 3 for free. The Regalia will be made available to everyone who has played Forza Horizon 3 (on… Continue reading Final Fantasy XV Regalia Coming to Forza Horizon 3 Beginning August 1→

Sys Admin To Cloud Admin, ITSM To CloudOps, On-prem To Azure Stack/Azure  Steve Buchanan is a regional solutions director with Concurrency, a six-time Microsoft MVP, and author of several technical books focused on cloud and data center management. In his 17+ years as an IT professional, Steve has held positions ranging from infrastructure architect to… Continue reading Check Out What’s Up On This Week’s Friday Five→

Visionary minds melded near and far this week – from students imagining a cloud solution for diabetes management to the people reinventing their lives through “Minecraft.” Around the planet, Microsoft employees hacked big world problems. At home, Microsoft researchers created a new path toward machine reading comprehension. Meantime, an old invention has gone digital –…

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