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Project Reunion, Microsoft s revamped desktop development framework for Windows 10, inched ahead to reach 0.8 preview. It provides components like Windows UI Library (WinUI) 3, MRT Core, and DWriteCore to help make writing Windows 10 apps more consistent. When you build an app that uses Project Reunion, you get access to: coherent and modern interactions and UX with WinUI 3, great system performance and battery life, an experience optimized for the device hardware, and hassle-free app discovery and management, the company explained in a blog post.
Windows Terminal 1.9 preview brings with it a new feature called Quake Mode, which alas does not launch an instance of the classic 3D first-person shooter. Instead it opens a new terminal window using the keyboard shortcut that works anywhere in Windows (
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Build 2021: Windows 10
Build hasn’t focused on Windows for several years now, and so we only have a few interesting tidbits this year, mostly aimed at developers.
Here are only the Windows-related announcements from Build, or at least those that Microsoft disclosed to us ahead of time.
Snapdragon Developer Kit. Starting this summer, developers will be able to purchase “an affordable Windows on ARM-based PC designed for developers” that will be sold from the Microsoft Store. It was created in partnership with Qualcomm and i’s described a small desktop PC based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c compute platform that will be less expensive than consumer notebooks (based on ARM). So I guess it could still be pretty expensive.
Microsoft just released WinUI 3 - Project Reunion 0.5 Preview. The preview is the first time that WinUI 3 ships inside of the Project Reunion package, which should help developers make modern apps for Windows 10.