Month: April 2018

As a member of the Xbox Insider Team, I get the opportunity to collaborate with the Windows Insider Team on gaming-related subjects. Together, we’ve just closed the 2018 Windows Insider Annual Survey. Some of you may have seen or even completed this survey, and if you have, you know it’s a significant way for the Windows crew to gather feedback directly from their most impassioned users. We’ve written before in this blog about how valuable Xbox believes your direct feedback is to make our products better, and Windows is no exception to that belief. If you want to make your… Continue reading Learn More About What Windows Insiders Had to Say About Their Experience→

Hello Windows Insiders! Today, we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17643 (RS5) to Windows Insiders who opted in to Skip Ahead. What’s new in Build 17643 Sets + Office = Awesome Sets with Office 365 makes it easy to group, recall, and refresh data sources for all your projects. Whether updating your Excel […] Continue reading Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17643 for Skip Ahead→

Aravind Krishna stops by to chat with Scott Hanselman and take a look at common design patterns for building highly scalable solutions with Azure Cosmos DB. We will talk a little bit about modeling data and how to choose an appropriate partition key. W… Continue reading Common design patterns with Azure Cosmos DB | Azure Friday→

The time has come for a new era in the sci-fi fantasy world of Skyforge. The Overgrowth update has arrived and brought with it a brand-new class: the Grovewalker, along with a whole host of new features and changes. The Grovewalkers are fierce protectors. Summoning their powers directly from nature, they can easily protect their allies from harm. With the use of roots, they hold their foes to the ground while scattering seeds across the field of battle, sprouting carnivorous flowers to finish them off. If their foes get too close, the Grovewalker can become the living embodiment of nature… Continue reading Overgrowth is Now Available for Skyforge on Xbox One→

If you haven’t already experienced the snowy splendor of Skyrim, now’s your chance. Winner of more than 200 Game of the Year awards and remastered in stunning detail on Xbox One, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition will be free to play this weekend for all Xbox Live Gold members. From 12:01 a.m. PDT on Thursday, April 12, through 11:59 p.m. PDT on Sunday, April 15, Xbox Live Gold members can check out Skyrim Special Edition for free. That includes the base game as well as all the add-ons Dawnguard, Hearthfire, and Dragonborn. In addition to the free weekend,… Continue reading Play The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition for Free This Weekend with Xbox Live Gold→

This week, James is joined yet again by friend of the show Sr Cloud Developer Advocate Matt Soucoup, who shows us how to take the pain out of adding user accounts to your apps with Azure AD B2C. He tells us what that acronym stands for, walks us throug… Continue reading Azure Active Directory B2C Authentication For Mobile with Matthew Soucoup | The Xamarin Show→

Hello, Xbox fans! I’m from Freejam, makers of Robocraft Infinity, and I’ve been tasked to introduce the game to the lovely Xbox audience. Robocraft Infinity is the second game to launch straight into Xbox Game Pass, following a trail blazed by Sea of Thieves (hey, Rare!) and our unique multiplayer shooter allows players to build awesome-looking highly customisable robots and then take those creations into fast paced 5 vs 5. battles online. Our game retails for $19.99 / £14.99 / €19.99 on the Microsoft Store and active Xbox Game Pass subscribers can play the game as part of their subscription… Continue reading Robocraft Infinity is Available Now Exclusively on Xbox One and Xbox Game Pass→

Starting at 2.00p.m. PDT today, members of the Xbox One Preview Beta, Delta and Omega Rings will begin receiving the latest Xbox One system update (1804.180409-1751). Read on for more about fixes and known issues in the latest system update. Fixes:   Audio The Hulu team is releasing a new app to address the app volume is lower than expected.  System Fixes to address general system stability and reliability.   Known Issues:   Audio Some users may experience intermittent loss of Audio with certain configurations of AV receivers with ATMOS or with changing audio configurations during console use. Microsoft Edge… Continue reading New Preview Beta, Delta & Omega Rings 1804 System Update – 4/12/18→