Month: July 2018

Today, I’m proud to announce that Microsoft’s corporate venture fund, M12, is joining forces with EQT Ventures and SVB Financial Group to launch the Female Founders Competition, a global startup contest to identify top female talent and accelerate access to capital for women entrepreneurs. We’ve all heard the long odds facing women founders in tech. Last year, female founders received just 2.2 percent of total global venture capital funding, and only 17 percent of all startups have at least one female founder, despite the fact that gender diversity on executive teams correlates with greater profitability and value creation.

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Starting at 6:00 p.m. PDT today, members of the Xbox One Preview Beta Ring will begin receiving the latest Xbox One system update (1806.180723-1749). Read on for more about the fixes and known issues in the latest 1806 system update.  Please note that this build is a full build of around 3.4G and it does not factory refresh the console. Fixes:   My Games and Apps Users should no longer experience Various Games and Apps failing to launch which required a title uninstall and reinstall.  This fix will resolve the issue when you launch the title. Users should no longer… Continue reading New Preview Beta Ring 1806 System Update – 7/25/18→

I’d like to tell you more about our first game, Candle: The Power of the Flame. It’s a beautiful 2D adventure created entirely from hand-drawn watercolor paintings. In our adventure, you assume the role of little Teku, who after an attack on his village is forced to undertake a dangerous journey to rescue his tribe’s shaman. Equipped with just a candle and his wit, he will have to overcome numerous dangers, traps, and puzzles to achieve his goal. Sounds exciting, right? Well, developing Candle has indeed been quite an adventure for us too! We had never developed a video game… Continue reading 7 Development Facts About Candle: The Power of the Flame, Available Now on Xbox One→

We are happy to announce that MSIX Packaging Tool (Preview) is now available to from the Microsoft Store. MSIX Packaging Tool enables you to update your existing win32 application packages to the MSIX format. You can run your desktop installers through… Continue reading MSIX Packaging Tool (Preview) is now available from the Microsoft Store→

Hello Windows Insiders! Today, we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17723 (RS5) to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring and Build 18204 (19H1) to Windows Insiders who have opted in to Skip Ahead. Going forward, RS5 builds will come from the RS5_RELEASE branch. For Insiders who chose to “skip ahead”, 19H1 builds will […] Continue reading Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17723 and Build 18204→

The year is 1987, and you’re an investigative journalist living in the wake of a terrorist attack that killed 23 people in England. You’re tasked with investigating an impending government act, as well as the events that led up to the incident. This is the world of The Occupation, coming to the Microsoft Store on Xbox One October 9 from us at Humble Bundle and at retail thanks to a partnership with Sold Out! The extremely talented developers at White Paper Games, who previously developed Ether One, are the ones working on The Occupation, a first-person, fixed-time, investigative thriller that… Continue reading Discover the Truth in The Occupation on Xbox One October 9→

At its heart, the Imagine Cup is all about bringing students together from across the globe, inspiring them to usher in our collective future using cloud-based technologies of today and tomorrow, including artificial intelligence (AI), big data, mixed reality and more. Since its inception 16 years ago, the Imagine Cup has motivated nearly 2 million…

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Microsoft FastTrack continues to work with organizations like yours to accelerate cloud deployment of Microsoft 365.
 
We just refreshed our Microsoft FastTrack web experience with a new landing page and supporting resources so you can fin… Continue reading Microsoft FastTrack: A refreshed web experience with new tools & resources→