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Windows Insider Program Explore the future of Windows Welcome to our monthly newsletter, where we discuss the latest in features, flights, and innovation for Windows Insiders. Tune In Learn more about upcoming features, discuss preview builds, explore technical issues, and more! April Webcast Wednesday, 4/15/2020 at 10am PT Save invite to your calendar March Podcast Listen to the podcast Announcing the new lead for the Windows Insider Program Amanda and Panos on a Teams call practicing social distancing. We're proud to announce Amanda Langowski as the new lead for the Windows Insider Program. Amanda’s passion for Windows is clear throughout her 20-year career at Microsoft, which began with coordinating beta programs for Windows. Since then, she’s been an extraordinary and dedicated product maker who’s obsessed with customer feedback and helping connect our engineers and users. We look forward to her leading the program and enhancing the Windows Insider experience. LEARN MORE > A big thanks to all Insiders Windows 10 is now running on one billion active devices. That’s more than one billion people using Windows 10 across 200 countries! We’d like to thank you for helping us get here. Your valuable input and insights have helped us shape the product that empowers people to do more and achieve more. Thank you and we look forward to continuing our relationship with you! WINDOWS CELEBRATION > Share a link to a specific slide in PowerPoint Do you ever work on presentations that have dozens (if not hundreds!) of slides, and you’re looking for feedback on a single slide from a specific colleague? Rather than sending a link to the entire presentation, you can now send the reviewer a link to the specific slide you want them to contribute to. No confusion, no wasted time CHECK OUT “LINK TO THIS SLIDE” FEATURE > Flight News Stay on top of the latest release in your ring! Click below to see what’s in the latest build/revision for your ring. Fast ring Build 19592 Slow ring Build 19041.172 Release Preview ring Build 18363.752 Tips & Tricks Clipboard history is an option in Windows, thanks to your feedback Have you ever accidentally copied something on top of the thing you were saving on your clipboard? Clipboard history can help - just press WIN+V to enable it and get started. Cut down on distractions by using Focus Assist Do notifications distract you when you're trying to get stuff done? Focus Assist can suppress notifications when you need it. Set it to activate automatically with the rules in Focus Assist settings or turn it on manually via the quick actions in the Action Center. Naming comes to virtual desktops Virtual desktops are here to help you cognitively separate the different things you’re doing on your PC. Thanks to your feedback, in 20H1 builds you can now choose to name them! Select the Task View icon or Win+Tab, then add a new desktop. When you select the desktop name, it will become editable. ⌨️🖥️ Have you tried it yet? Let us know! FOLLOW US ON TWITTER FOR MORE FEATURES > For IT Pros What’s new for IT pros in Windows 10, version 2004. The next version of Windows is going to be generally available soon but is currently open to explore for Insiders. To find out what's in it for you and your organization visit the Microsoft Tech Community. COMMERCIAL FEATURES IN 20H1 > 20H1 is available on WSUS 20H1 is available on WSUS for organizations to begin validating their deployment processes for the next version of Windows. Click below to learn more information on what's in the build and to deploy. INSTALL 20H1 FROM WSUS > Software Development Kits Get the latest SDKs and developer documentation The Surface Duo SDK sample content was updated with two new samples, Drag-and-Drop and IntentToSecondScreen, which shows how to open an activity on the other screen. In addition, all the samples are now available as Kotlin and Java samples. Also check out our dual-screen documentation for both Windows 10X and Android and new samples based on a list of high-priority topics. We’ve also published updated WinUI docs, MSIX pages, and Win The Dev Box videos. The latest Windows Insider SDK is also available. It works with previously released SDKs and Visual Studio 2017 and 2019. DOWNLOAD THE LATEST SURFACE DUO SDK > DOWNLOAD THE WINDOWS INSIDER LATEST SDK > This email is part of your Windows Insider Program membership. See our online Privacy Statement. If you wish to stop receiving Window Insider Program emails, you will need to leave the program. Find out how to leave the program. Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052 USA