The day is almost upon us. Pre-order Call of Duty®: WWII from PlayStation Store and start counting down to the release on November 3.

Pre-order the game: https://bit.ly/2lbY23r

Celebrate the countdown to launch with content and giveaways: https://live.playstation.com/

Source: Playstation YouTube
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Hello Windows Insiders!

Today, we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17025 for PC to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring and for those who opted in to Skip Ahead.

REMINDER: Going forward, we plan to release new builds for RS4 from the RS_PRERELEASE branch to Insiders in the Fast ring and those who opted in to Skip Ahead at the same time.

What’s new in Build 17025

Revamped Ease of Access Settings: This build adds new Ease of Access settings to make your device easier to use and fit your needs. We also grouped related settings together which help you see, hear or interact with your computer to assist in discovering settings more quickly. Additionally, we heard your feedback and improved setting descriptions to help you more easily understand the available accessibility features. Go to the Ease of Access section in Settings to see what’s available to make your computer easier to use!

Controlling your Startup tasks: Continuing our work from the previous flight, with today’s flight we’ve updated the Advanced options under Settings > Apps & Features so that UWP apps that are configured to run at startup will now have a new option to see all available tasks specified by the app developer and their status will now have a new option to see all available tasks specified by the app developer and their status.

If you use this display language, we would really appreciate you keeping a close eye on how the display font looks with this build, and logging feedback to share your thoughts.

General changes, improvements, and fixes for PC

• Continuing our effort towards Fluent Design, in this build you’ll notice that not only have we soften our light press effect based on your feedback, we’ve also enabled Reveal by default in CalendarView (seen, for example, in the Clock and Calendar flyout). UWP apps leveraging the Preview SDK for this build or higher will see this change automatically.
• We fixed the issue where if you RDP into a PC running this build with certain GPU configurations, when you go to sign in to the PC locally it will appear stuck at a black screen with only the cursor available.
• We fixed an issue resulting in the touch feedback appearing visually corrupted in the last flight, with strange artifacts rather than the expected circle.
• We fixed an issue resulting in UNC paths not being recognized when typed using the touch keyboard with the Japanese layout.
• To improve the speed in getting you where you want to go, when typing with the Japanese IME into Internet Explorer’s address bar or search box, you will now see the search suggestions dropdown while composing the string, rather than having to wait until the candidate string is committed.
• We fixed an issue where using an app in mini mode (for example Groove Music) would result in the taskbar appearing on top of a remote desktop session. We also fixed an issue where using Cortana to launch an app while playing a game fullscreen on another monitor could result in the taskbar drawing on top of the game.
• We fixed an issue resulting in not being able to scroll to the very bottom of Start using touch when in tablet mode on small devices.
• We fixed an issue where mouse input in Start might become offset.
• We fixed an issue where clean installing Windows while not connected to the internet might result in default Start tiles showing download arrows indefinitely rather than the expected image.
• We fixed an issue where right-clicking a folder already pinned to Start in File Explorer would still show the option “Pin to Start”.
• We fixed an issue where attempting to log into Windows using a VM with Enhanced Session Mode might result in being prompted for your password twice.
• We fixed an issue where toggling some DX9/DX10/DX11 games between windowed and fullscreen (for example using Alt + Tab) could result in the game window become black on certain PCs.
• We fixed an issue resulting in some Insiders with x86 PCs experiencing a blue screen with a HAL INITIALIZATION FAILED error when upgrading to the previous flight.
• We fixed an issue where Insiders with restore points set might have experienced a volsnap.sys Green Screen error on boot.
• We fixed an issue resulting in Microsoft Edge taking an unexpectedly long time to load the new page after clicking on certain links, appearing hung.
• We fixed an issue resulting in Microsoft Edge being unexpectedly slow to respond when tabbing through controls with certain third party screen readers active.
• We fixed an issue where settings under Windows Update’s Delivery Optimization page were unexpectedly disabled in the last flight.
• We fixed an issue with the Courier New font where the numeral 2 was not displaying clearly on some display configurations.
• Improved the Yu Gothic Bold font focusing on consistent baseline alignment and clarity of various Kana characters.

Known issues

• If you are experiencing broken functionality in Mail, Cortana, Narrator or missing some features like Windows Media Player, please see this Feedback Hub post: https://aka.ms/Rsrjqn.
• Using a swipe gesture with touch to dismiss notifications from the Action Center is currently not working. We’re investigating – for now you’ll need to use the clear all button, or use mouse/keyboard.
• There’s a noticeable screen flicker when using hotkeys or the touchpad to switch between Virtual Desktops.
• Invoking the Game bar with Win + G may cause the mouse cursor to become unresponsive while Game bar is up. Keyboard navigation still works and pressing Win + G again will close the Game bar, restoring the mouse cursor to the game.
• Calendar toast dismiss and snooze icons may be missing from notifications in Action Center.

No downtime for Hustle-As-A-Service,
Dona <3

Source: Windows Blog
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We’re excited to announce the release of Windows Application Driver (WinAppDriver) version 1.0. This 1.0 release is the first WinAppDriver release without the Beta label. This release is a big milestone for the project which was first introduced during Build 2016 and has been growing in adoption.

What is WinAppDriver

Today, it’s easier than ever to build software for multiple platforms and devices. Microsoft supports any developer working on any platform to build software for any device. We’re showing this support in many tooling investments including .Net, UWP with .Net Standard, Rome, VS Code, Xamarin and WSL. In alignment with this vision we need a test tooling strategy that is equally cross platform and cross device, and that is where WinAppDriver fits in.

WinAppDriver is an open standards based tool for UI Test Automation. You can use WinAppDriver to run Automated UI tests for any application on Windows 10. The support for open standards means if you’ve been running UI Test Automation using Appium or Selenium, you can use your existing tools and preferred languages to write tests for Windows applications.

Version 1.0 Details

This release of WinAppDriver is our first non-Beta for a few reasons:

1. WinAppDriver now supports the core set of features we initially aspired to back when we launched the project. This doesn’t mean we’re done, but we do feel confident about the supported set of features.
2. Over the last year we’ve received feedback from the community and been improving WinAppDriver’s performance and quality based on that feedback. Thank you to everyone who participated! A big thank you to the Appium community for including WinAppDriver in the Appium installer.
3. Removing the Beta label shows we believe strongly in the future of Open Standard based tools and plan to continue to invest in WinAppDriver.

Looking ahead

The WinAppDriver team’s focus is to continue building a feature rich and high performance set of tools for running Automated UI tests on Windows devices. This vision includes enabling support for more Windows devices, test scenarios and tool integrations.

The team is actively working on improvements that include:

1. Addition to workflows such as Continuous Integration
2. Multi-touch input support
3. Pen input support
4. Bringing WinAppDriver to additional Windows devices

Where can I get it?

You can find the v1.0 installer on the WinAppDriver project’s Github page where we also provide samples, documentation and issue tracking:
https://github.com/Microsoft/WinAppDriver/releases.

The next release of Appium (1.7.2) will install WinAppDriver v1.0 for you if you don’t already have it.

How do I provide feedback?

Please provide feedback on our Github issue board
https://github.com/Microsoft/WinAppDriver/issues

Stay Informed

To stay up to date with WinAppDriver news follow @mrhassanuz and @yosefdurr.

Summary

The v1.0 release of WinAppDriver is a major milestone which no longer has a Beta label.  Please try upgrading to v1.0 as soon as you can. If you haven’t tried WinAppDriver yet, now is a great time.

Thank you from the WinAppDriver Team!

Source: Windows Blog
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In addition to building a great browser and dependable web platform for Windows, we’re passionate about empowering developers to build great websites. With that goal in mind, we launched modern.IE in 2013 featuring a static scan tool to detect optimizations for old versions of IE, outdated libraries, missing prefixes, and more. The web has moved on since then, and it’s time to update our tools accordingly!

Introducing sonar

Today, we are excited to announce the next evolution of the static scan tool: sonar, a new linting tool and site scanner for the modern web.

sonar brings many improvements compared to previous scanners: execution of website code instead of static analysis, a more flexible and modernized set of rules, parallel test execution, integration with other services, a completely open source code base from day one, and more. Additionally, sonar can also be used as a command line tool (CLI) that you can integrate directly into your local web development workflows.

Web development is more than HTML, JavaScript, and CSS: developers are expected to have a grasp of accessibility, performance, security, emerging standards, and more, all while refreshing this knowledge every few months as the web evolves.

Linting the web forward

Simply put, the web is complex, and we want sonar to make it a bit easier for you to write great websites. To make sure that sonar can be helpful not only now, but in the future, we started with a set of guiding principles before we wrote a single line of code.

Put the user at the center

Rather than just telling developers what was wrong, sonar had to also say why. It is important to know the reason for an issue so developers can decide if that really applies to their work. The requirements from website to website can change a lot―for example, an intranet website and an online shopping experience will have vastly different needs. Therefore, sonar should also be easy to use, configure, and expand.

Build for the community’s best interests

The web belongs to everyone, and this project should too. Everything had to be open sourced since the beginning, but that wasn’t enough―we wanted to go even further and make it easier for the web community to get involved, and remove any possible doubt that this project has the community’s best interest in mind. For that reason, we decided to donate the project to the JS Foundation early during the summer.

Collaborate with existing tools and services

sonar should avoid reinventing the wheel, instead leveraging and integrating existing tools and services that help developers build for the web. We are happy to say that sonar now integrates with aXe Core, AMP validator, snyk.io, SSL Labs, and Cloudinary.

You can hear more about sonar’s history and guiding principles in our session at Microsoft Edge Web Summit.

sonar today, and what’s next

We’ve come a long way since we wrote down those principles a few months ago: sonar is now available as an open sourced command line utility, built on node, that you can install via npm. Additionally, it has an open-source online service, deployed on top of Azure, using docker containers, that can scan any publicly available website. sonar’s rules are backed by a collection of best practices for the web, with links to more detailed documentation that keeps growing with each new rule.

But this is just the beginning. We’re hard at work on a backlog of exciting features for future releases, such as:

• A plug-in for Visual Studio Code: We want sonar to help you write better websites, and what better moment than when you are in your editor.
• Configuration options for the online service: As we fine tune the infrastructure, the rule configuration for our scanner is locked, but we look forward to adding customization options here in the near future.
• New rules for a variety of areas like performance, accessibility, security, Progressive Web Apps, and more.

If you are excited about sonar, making a better web, and want to contribute, we have a few issues where you might be able to help. Also, don’t forget to check the rest of the sonarwhal GitHub organization. PRs are always welcome and appreciated!

Take a few moments to try the sonar scanner and the CLI, and let us know what you think at @narwhallnellie on Twitter or in the comments below!

– Antón Molleda, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Edge

 

Source: Windows Blog
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Ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity! This weekend only, all Xbox Live Gold members can enjoy 2K’s turn-based strategy hit, XCOM 2 for free as part of Xbox Live Gold’s Free Play Days.

Beginning at 9:00 a.m. PT on Thursday, October 26 and running through to 11:59 p.m. PT on Sunday, October 29, Xbox Live Gold members in Xbox One markets will get a special opportunity to fight for the future of humanity.

During the week, you’ll also have the option to purchase XCOM 2 or XCOM 2 Digital Deluxe from the Xbox Store at 60% off. Should you decide to return to the fight later, all of your achievements and saved-game progress will be waiting for you.

You can download XCOM 2 starting at 9:00 a.m. PT on October 26 by clicking on the Gold Member area on the Home Dashboard or downloading directly from the Xbox Store. Stay tuned to Xbox Wire for all the latest Xbox news.

 

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Join Us for the Launch of the World’s Most Powerful Console, Xbox One X

Source: Xbox Blog
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Hey, Xbox gamers! The Tips & Tricks team is here with tips for Fallout 4: Game of the Year Edition (click on the video player above). By now, most of us have logged quite a few hours into the base game, but for those who haven’t gotten their fill yet, Fallout 4’s Game of the Year Edition is here. This version of the game comes with all six of the DLCs, so to help get you started here’s the lowdown on each one, plus some tips like level requirements and useful perks!

For even more strategies and tactics on today’s hottest games, plus plenty of other gaming-related fun, tune in to Tips and Tricks, live every Tuesday at 3pm PT/6pm ET on Mixer.com/TipsAndTricks!

See the rest of the story on Xbox Wire

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Play XCOM 2 for Free This Weekend Only with Xbox Live Gold
Xbox Live Sessions: Ronda Rousey to Play Assassin’s Creed Origins on Xbox One X
Join Us for the Launch of the World’s Most Powerful Console, Xbox One X

Source: Xbox Blog
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Immerse yourself in exploration and battle, whenever and wherever you’d like on Nintendo Switch. Fire Emblem Warriors available now. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim available 11/17. Xenoblade Chronicles 2 available 12/1.

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