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Kip Kniskern

Kip has been a Microsoft enthusiast since forever, and worked on/ran LiveSide.net, a website dedicated to all things Windows Live, for 9 years. Kip came to (WinBeta.org) onmsft.com in December 2014, and is loving every minute of it. Twitter email

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Microsoft announces first early release of Web Template Studio, a VS Code extension for making cloud based web apps

Microsoft continues to build on the success of Visual Studio Code, a free, cross platform code editor that’s rapidly becoming…

Kip Kniskern · May 15, 2019 · 1 min read

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Reminder: Edgium or Chredge? Soon it won’t matter

Microsoft’s recent move to switch out browser engines from their own EdgeHTML to the open source Chromium, while a bold…

Kip Kniskern · May 13, 2019 · 2 min read

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Microsoft Build begins today, May 6th, at 8:30am PDT: watch it here

Microsoft is back again, hosting its annual conference for developers and news watchers in Seattle this week, and once again…

Kip Kniskern · May 6, 2019 · 1 min read

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A number of Google sites don’t work in Edge Insider, an Edge PM explains why

Microsoft recently unveiled its first drafts of a new Edge web browser, this one built on Chromium, the open source…

Kip Kniskern · May 2, 2019 · 2 min read

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Windows 10 Insider build 18890 for the Fast Ring released, contains only fixes and improvements

Today, Microsoft released the lastest Windows 10 Insider build for the 20H1 Fast Ring. As you may remember, the Windows…

Kip Kniskern · May 1, 2019 · 3 min read

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Now Google Docs is calling Edge Insider Dev an “unsupported browser”

Last week, some users of the new Chromium-based Edge Insider browser noticed that Google Meet had stopped working with either…

Kip Kniskern · April 30, 2019 · 2 min read

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Rumor: Microsoft may not talk about WCOS or Windows Lite at Build 2019, or Andromeda at all

Microsoft’s annual developer conference Build is slated to start in just a week, with lots of news and sessions about…

Kip Kniskern · April 29, 2019 · 2 min read

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Microsoft fixes Windows 10 Insider 18362.53 blocking bug, issues 18362.86 patch to allow 20H1 Fast Ring builds

Windows Insiders have been at a bit of an impasse recently as some testers having upgraded to 19H1 build 18362.53,…

Kip Kniskern · April 26, 2019 · 2 min read

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Microsoft teams with Amal and George Clooney on TrialWatch Initiative to address injustice, one court case at a time

One of the good things that the internet can do, despite all of its failings, is to help to shine…

Kip Kniskern · April 25, 2019 · 1 min read

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Microsoft, the (almost) trillion dollar company

Yesterday, Microsoft released Fiscal Year 2019 3rd quarter earnings, and with all aspects of the company seemingly raking in the…

Kip Kniskern · April 25, 2019 · 2 min read