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Traditional enterprise network architecture revolves around the pre-cloud world. A world where data, services and applications generally live within the corporate walled garden and thus connectivity is simply from the user locatio… Continue reading Microsoft Ignite Pre-Day Workshop: Understanding, optimizing, and troubleshooting Office 365 network
In Airheart, your goal is to get to the top of the skies and catch the legendary skywhale. To succeed, you’ll need to battle pirates and drones, catch lots of fish and most importantly: stay alive! You play as Amelia, a young pilot, and fisherwoman wishing to reach the edge of the world and make the big catch. But since you’re living on the poor underside of Granaria, a flying city in the clouds, your way to the top will be especially hard. I played a couple of hundred hours of Airheart during development and I think I’ve got some… Continue reading 10 Insider Tips for Airheart’s Colorful Airplane World Above the Clouds
Wailing Heights, a body-hopping adventure game that lets you sing your soul into hand-drawn hipster vampires, vegan werewolves and soul-singing zombies is now available on Xbox One. The puzzles are inspired by classic adventure games such as Monkey Island, Broken Sword and the more recent Thimbleweed Park, and we would like to share a few Tips & Tricks so you are not left scratching your head for long. Lyrical Puzzles You play as Francis Finkelstein, a washed-up singer-songwriter whose only claim-to-fame was managing the biggest rock band of the 60’s; The Deadbeats. Francis hasn’t had a gig in 40 years,… Continue reading Tips and Tricks for Wailing Heights, Available Now on Xbox One
Olaf sits down with me to give a demo about how Power BI and Excel make each other better together with the power of Office 365, SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams.
For more information, please see this Ignite Session On-Demand: Democratiza… Continue reading Excel Table Talk Returns! Power BI & Excel Better Together
Learn what’s new in Excel for Mac. More information at http://msft.social/M2tvM9
Continue reading Excel Table Talk Episode 6: Improvements to Excel for Mac
Starting at 2:00 p.m. PDT today, members of the Xbox One Preview Alpha – Skip Ahead and Preview Alpha rings will begin receiving the latest Xbox One system update (1810.180812-1920). Learn more about the new features in development for 1810 here, and read on for a list of fixes and known issues in this 1810 system update. Important Build Notes Avatar Editor We are releasing an update to Insiders in the Alpha Skip Ahead, Alpha, and Beta rings! This build includes updates to Avatar rendering as well as other improvements to the Avatar Editor user experience. Please check out the… Continue reading New Preview Alpha and Alpha Skip Ahead 1810 Update – 8/15/18
Hello, Xbox fans! We’re excited to bring Coffee Crisis, our neo rogue brawler to the Xbox One today. I wanted to introduce the game and explain what makes this dark brew of beat ’em up action so incredibly metal. Right out of the gate, Coffee Crisis hits players with a hard and heavy plot. An evil deep space race of aliens has come to strip humanity of it’s most precious accomplishments – wifi, coffee, and heavy metal. The game stars two baristas from a heavy metal themed coffee shop who use the Seven Demon Blend as a weapon against this… Continue reading Turning the Metal up to 11 in Coffee Crisis, Available Now on Xbox One
The Microsoft Devices team is excited to announce the release of an open source framework for Windows driver developers — Driver Module Framework (DMF). With DMF, not only can you easily develop simple and structured Windows Driver Framework (WDF) drivers but also share code amongst your drivers. Background Over the years Surface organization developed many […] Continue reading Introducing Driver Module Framework