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I saw this was retweeted from the walkingcat, which is a highlight of some UWP built apps / utilities, I'm just going to focus on the interesting projects listed rather than it being UWP / Windows only.

The ones I found interesting were mostly the honourable mentions / unreleased projects:

• DynamicShell
• I use taskbarX (previously falcon) to get a centered taskbar, this just gives the overall taskbar UI a new undocked and newer make over
• Project Input / Project Screen
• I have been trying to find something similar for Windows, which will let me use an external surface that's lying around as a makeshift pen digitiser. Very niche use case, but at least there will be a utility to do that now.

Another project I found as part of the group project page is WinDynamicDesktop which replicates the time of day wallpapers found in MacOS.

So the BBC launched the beeb assitant as beta on the Windows Store and it only runs on 20H1. The interesting thing in this beta is that Beeb app uses an API in 20H1 which lets it respond to 'Ok Beeb' even when it's not running. The app is a UWP runtime app, so it seems there is a way for native third party voice assistants to hook into keyword wakeup.

I know this is for a very limited market of users, but capability is something new I haven't heard of, only that Cortana was being set as a standalone app.

This is pretty interesting, Gab is given a notice for violating Azure’s Acceptable Use Policy, That’s just surprising to me that Azure would step in, at that point.

I understand if it were for other legal based issues (copyright, local laws) but I’m surprised by this.

What if another Twitter/Facebook/Youtube is built on Azure. Is it that social network’s responsibility or is it also the cloud providers responsibility?

Also as a developer, we’ve been told constantly to treat the cloud like a utility, all the microsoft evangelists have constantly said that Microsoft doesn’t care what you run in their cloud as long as you’re using their cloud.

Why do they care of the content is hosted on their platform provided it is legal.

I couldn’t care much about Gab, however what about Reddit, would the same policies apply to reddit for the content on the sub-reddits if they were hosted on Azure?

I’m interested to hear other people’s take on this.

So Linus uploaded a video regarding an Asus prototype with dual screens, with Asus saying it's targetted for 2019, which seems to line up with the timelines for CoreOS and Andromeda.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxVeBqvbGWY

They've turned on Skype for Outlook.com beta, it's using the new cross platform UI (used in mobile apps, new desktop client thats built in ReactXP). There is no more side pane, the chats are pop up windows, similar to how messages on facebook work.

So I pre ordered cuphead through the store and it says I can't play it until 2PM UK time.

Is this common across Windows Store releases? It's a bit absurd for it to do that.

Right before build, Tom Warren revealed that there were plans around something called a “home hub” similar to an Echo show or mini surface hub and mini jamboard.

Is this another Cortana speaker issue where it won’t see the light of day until it’s too late?

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/9/15596488/microsoft-windows-10-homehub-feature-screenshots

With Windows 10 Cloud being a thing, I thought I'd give edge a try after upgrading to the creators update,

I still see there are issues with the app on numerous PCs. Most notably is when I open a new Windows (regardless of ctrl + N or clicking new window from the elipses), the new windows are burried under the current one.

It doesn't appear to that at first, but it will eventually. There's times the new window actually appears on top of the current window, but then shortly this bug kicks in again.

I don't know if there are any replication steps, over than use the browser and hit ctrl + n

I've got a screen shot of multiple open windows that are below my current window, they're glowing orange because they haven't been opened.