Month: January 2019

Rock Band 4 is a celebration of music and rock and roll culture. The game comes with a top-notch selection of songs you can play, and with the Rivals expansion, you get access to an additional 44 free songs. But for the true music gaming aficionados out there, the real magic of Rock Band comes from the unparalleled DLC catalog; a collection of over 2,000 songs from across the world of music – from the heaviest of metal to top forty hits. Now, for the first time, players can get their hands on new music through 4 special bundles, each… Continue reading Rock Band DLC Bundles Now Available on Xbox One→

Happy New Year, Xbox Insiders! Starting at 2:00 p.m. PST today, members of the Xbox One Preview Delta will begin receiving a new 1902 Xbox One system update (1902.190107-1920). Read on for more about the fixes and known issues in the latest 1902 system update. Fixes:   Audio: Reliability fixes to Cortana. Unplugging a headset during video playback will no longer audio loss before video playback freezes. Mouse We have improved the responsiveness of mouse performance to reduce lag. My Games and Apps Performance fixes for various FastStart titles to improve the installation experience. Fixes to various games (e.g. Resident… Continue reading New Preview Delta 1902 Build – 1/11/2019→

Happy New Year, Xbox Insiders! Starting at 2:00 p.m. PST today, members of the Xbox One Preview Alpha Ring will begin receiving a new 1902 Xbox One system update (1902.190108-1920). Read on for more about the fixes and known issues in the latest 1902 system update.   Fixes:   Mouse Framework changes to the mouse feature set for future work. My Games and Apps Performance fixes for various FastStart titles to improve the installation experience.  System Performance Fixes to improve the stability of Home.    Known Issues:   Profile Color Sometimes users may encounter the incorrect Profile color when powering… Continue reading New Preview Alpha 1902 Build – 1/11/2019→

Starting at 2:00 p.m. PST today, members of the Xbox One Preview Skip Ahead will begin receiving the latest 1904 Xbox One system update (19h1_release_xbox_dev_1904.190109-1920). Read on for more about the fixes and known issues in the latest 1904 system update. Fixes:   Guide/Game launching We have fixed the issue of when a user was playing a game, returned to Guide then back to the game was causing poor system performance. My Games and Apps: We have fixed the issue that come users were seeing blank content in My Games & Apps Improved the Fast Start performance of titles. System… Continue reading New Preview Alpha Skip Ahead 1904 Build – 1/11/2019→

From the world’s most powerful console with Xbox One X, to the most advanced multiplayer network with Xbox Live, Xbox is one of the best places to play today’s hottest games with a fantastic gaming community. The Xbox MVPs play an important role within the Xbox community, and with the launch of the new website, we’re putting an even brighter spotlight on these amazing gamers. The Xbox MVP award recognizes gamers for doing something extraordinary within the gaming community. From running major charity organizations like Gamers Outreach, to solo efforts working to make gaming more inclusive for everyone, Xbox MVPs… Continue reading Celebrating the Best of the Xbox Community with the New Xbox MVP Site→

Firstline Workers are more than two billion people worldwide who work in service- or task-oriented roles, across industries such as retail, hospitality, travel, and manufacturing. And today, we are announcing the general availability of Shifts, in addi… Continue reading Empower your Firstline Workers with new capabilities in Microsoft Teams→

Chris Anderson joins Donovan Brown to discuss how to use Azure Cosmos DB and other great Azure services to build a highly-scalable, real-time, collaborative application. You’ll see techniques for using the Azure Cosmos DB change feed in both Azure Func… Continue reading Global real-time multi-user apps with Azure Cosmos DB | Azure Friday→

Hui’s World! – An Excel Project of Global Scale Ian Huitson, is the founder of Mining Solutions, a Mining Engineering and Management Consultancy from Perth, Australia. He is a Microsoft MVP (Excel) and has been since 2013. Ian deals with real Mining as well as Data Mining. Ian is passionate about mathematics, simulation, scheduling and budgeting but more importantly… Continue reading Friday Five: Firewalls, Expense receipts, Azure and More!→