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Microsoft announces Windows Package Manager, a new way to install tools easily on Windows
Microsoft announced the new Windows Package Manager preview, a command line tool that allows you to install your favorite tools quickly and easily
Microsoft is bringing Linux GUI apps to Windows 10
Linux on Windows 10 gets a big boost and GPU acceleration
Windows Terminal is here!
Two months ago, I presented to you Tabbed Command Prompt that it was in beta for Windows 10. Finally, Microsoft released the new version. Now, I can say Windows Terminal is here!
Uno Platform now lets you develop for macOS, Windows, and more using the same code
Uno Platform announced today that it now supports macOS as a target platform. This new support means that developers can…
Introducing Web Vitals: essential metrics for a healthy site
Optimizing for quality of user experience is key to the long-term success of any site on the web. Through our…
Inkscape 1.0 is free Windows 10, Linux, macOS
The Inkscape project’s version 1.0 of the free and open-source vector graphics editor is packed with new features
Microsoft: new free Python programming language courses are for novice AI developers
Aspiring data-science and machine-learning developers now have more Microsoft-made free video tutorials to learn how to build software in Python,…
Digital transformation scenario with Azure, Visual Studio and Git
In a company prospective, what digital transformation is about? In this post I explain my point of view
GitHub accounts stolen in ongoing phishing attacks
GitHub users are currently being targeted by a phishing campaign specifically designed to collect and steal their credentials
Windows 10: The new hidden features found in preview builds
With the latest Windows 10 Insider build, new hidden features have been found that add long-awaited media controls to the…
A guide to remote development with Visual Studio Live Share
Working in a fully distributed, remote team requires sophisticated collaboration technology, which needs to be both supercharged and frictionless. Visual Studio Live…
Microsoft Editor, an alternative to Grammarly
Last week Microsoft announced a new service called Microsoft Editor, an AI-powered writing assistant that takes on Grammarly, available for…
New Xamarin Application Developed to Track and Manage COVID-19 in Real-time
Volunteers re-engineer cancer treatment software to monitor coronavirus pandemic using Microsoft’s Xamarin mobile framework with Azure Mobile Angel has released…
Microsoft News Bar beta now available
Microsoft launched a new app for newshounds on the Microsoft Store today, dubbed Microsoft News Bar. The app is essentially…
WHO encourages people to game #PlayApartTogether
According to a report by USA Today, Activision-Blizzard and other game makers kicked off an initiative called #PlayApartTogether to entertain…
Are Windows 10 Control Panel’s days numbered?
Ever since the Windows 8 days, Microsoft has had two settings apps built into Windows. A modern Settings app, and…
Getting started with GitHub Sponsors
Are you interested in GitHub Sponsors but don’t know where to start? Do you have questions about whether you should…
Microsoft warns of Windows zero-day exploited in the wild
Hackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in the Windows 7 OS to take over systems, Microsoft said in a security alert today….
Windows Subsystem for Linux is making inroads with developers
Last week, Microsoft and Canonical (the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution) were scheduled to host a developer conference focused…
Facebook is moving to Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code for internal development
Facebook is adopting Visual Studio Code for all of its software engineers, and is currently in the process of finishing…
Amazon’s own Echo Buds may have revealed a future fitness tracking feature
Amazon’s truly wireless Echo Buds earbuds are excellent for their $130 price, to the point that they were the elephant…
Apple is quietly working on the perfect iPhone
iPhone owners know that Apple only refreshes the handset’s design every once in a while, usually when it has something significant to say, design-wise.
Google has been tracking nearly everything you buy online
Google has been quietly keeping track of nearly every single online purchase you’ve ever made, thanks to purchase receipts sent to your personal Gmail account
Microsoft brings PowerToys back to let anyone improve Windows 10 for power users
Microsoft first introduced the concept of “PowerToys” in Windows 95. It was originally a way for Windows engineers to test a prototype feature