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Holidays start with Microsoft Store

With the holidays just around the corner, it’s time to enjoy seasonal treats, hang up festive decorations and relive childhood classics. Yet, alongside the joy, there’s the ever-growing to-do list: finding recipes for meals, managing budgets, planning holiday gatherings and so much more. The season is about togetherness and connection, and whether it’s helping to […]

Limited Preview of Privacy-Preserving Ads API coming to Microsoft Edge

Earlier this year, we announced a new privacy-preserving ads API coming to Microsoft Edge. The Ad Selection API is intended to enable the web ecosystem to leverage privacy-preserving approaches to support key advertising use cases—even when unpartitioned 3rd-party cookies are not available. Today, we’re happy to announce a limited, developer opt-in, preview of the Ad […]

Passkeys on Windows: Authenticate seamlessly with passkey providers

Passkeys on Windows just got easier! As part of Microsoft’s vision for a passwordless future we are working to make passkeys on Windows simple and intuitive. Passkeys are safer and easier to use than passwords, which are vulnerable to phishing and data breaches. That is why, in support of a passwordless future, we partnered in […]

How to get new experiences for Windows 11

Today, Pavan Davuluri announced the latest Copilot+ PC innovation and the availability of the Windows 11 2024 Update. We are excited to continue to bring the power of AI and new experiences to Windows 11 and enhance what you can achieve using Copilot+ PCs and Windows 11. In this blog, I’ll share more information on […]

Enhancing the security of Microsoft Edge extensions with the new Publish API

As part of our commitment to continuously improve our security methods and practices, we are excited to introduce changes to the Publish API for Edge extensions developers. These changes are part of the Microsoft Secure Future Initiative and are designed to enhance the security of your extensions and streamline the extension publishing process. In this […]

Taking control of your browser performance when using extensions with Microsoft Edge

We’re introducing our extension performance detector to help you learn how extensions might impact browsing performance. Installing extensions can make you more productive and help you personalize Microsoft Edge to your needs. However, if you notice some delay in loading pages, this might be due to extensions which run extra lines of web code to […]

Looking forward to an Interop 2025 that addresses your top needs

The Interop 2025 call for proposals is now open! If there’s an area of the web platform you’d like to see included in next year’s Interop project, please submit it via the submission form. Since its inception in 2021, the Interop project has brought many improvements to the web platform, which address some of the […]

Taking steps that drive resiliency and security for Windows customers

On Tuesday, Sept. 10, we hosted the Windows Endpoint Security Ecosystem Summit. This forum brought together a diverse group of endpoint security vendors and government officials from the U.S. and Europe to discuss strategies for improving resiliency and protecting our mutual customers’ critical infrastructure. Although this was not a decision-making meeting, we believe in the […]

DirectML expands NPU support to Copilot+ PCs and WebNN

AI is transforming the way we interact with technology, enabling new and improved experiences across a variety of scenarios. DirectML empowers developers to bring their AI innovations to Windows and utilize local hardware acceleration to scale across the breadth of Windows devices. Today, we are excited to share how DirectML continues to expand platform support […]

Microsoft to host Windows Endpoint Security Ecosystem Summit in September

On Sept. 10, 2024, Microsoft will host a Windows Endpoint Security Ecosystem Summit at our Redmond, Washington, headquarters. Microsoft, CrowdStrike and key partners who deliver endpoint security technologies will come together for discussions about improving resiliency and protecting mutual customers’ critical infrastructure. Our objective is to discuss concrete steps we will all take to improve […]