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Project Ironsides is an experimental feature in Windows Dev Home that enables you to "peek under the hood" of Windows to better understand how your app is working 🧠 Project Ironsides enables you to: ⚡️ Gather data from a range of diagnostic tools and sources ⚡️ Filter data for analysis of a specifically targeted Windows app ⚡️ Format app data to improve readability ⚡️ Analyze app data to identify performance issues ⚡️ Combine diagnostic data and tools in a unified place Learn more:  https://lnkd.in/gdAFpBKK

🆕 Updates have arrived for Windows on Arm! 🔷 Prism is the new emulator included with Windows 11 24H2. Relative to previous emulation technology included in Windows, it includes significant optimizations that improve the performance and lower CPU usage of apps under emulation. It is optimized and tuned specifically for Qualcomm Snapdragon processors. 🔷 Our FAQ now explains how you can create a Windows on Arm Virtual Machine locally with a Windows on Arm device using Hyper-V with a Windows Insider Preview download. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/grnFsija

📣 Use the Windows App SDK to connect your Windows app to on-device language models, including Phi Silica, our most powerful NPU-tuned local language model yet. Phi Silica and OCR will be coming to Windows App SDK in an upcoming release. Stay tuned! https://lnkd.in/gvfTqV6n

Developers can access the power of both Windows and Linux at the same time on a Windows machine 🤯 The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) lets developers install a Linux distribution (such as Ubuntu, openSUSE, Kali, Debian, Arch Linux, etc) and use Linux applications, utilities, and Bash command-line tools directly on Windows, unmodified, without the overhead of a traditional virtual machine or dual boot setup. Interested? Check out our latest video 🎥 Alejandra Thomas chats with Microsoft’s Senior Product Manager Craig A. Loewen at Microsoft Build about Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), how developers can use WSL to install and run various Linux distributions, new WSL features, and much more!  https://lnkd.in/gAkZ-52p

Windows Studio Effects utilizes AI on select Windows devices with compatible Neural Processing Units (NPUs) to apply special effects to the device camera (currently supports front-facing camera) or built-in microphone. Windows Studio Effects work with your device hardware 📷 To ensure that Windows Studio Effects is trustworthy, secure, and built responsibly, it uses models that were extensively evaluated, guided and trained by fairness testing throughout development. Additionally, the data set used by Creative filters include 3,000 hand-drawn portraits of users of various ages, genders, and races, each drawn to adhere to a style guide that was created based on a study of user preferences. For Teleprompter and Creative filters, great consideration was put into the product functionality for people with unique eye characteristics. Read more about how Windows Studio Effects work with your device hardware here: https://lnkd.in/g3jHGftb

Copilot+ PCs are a new class of Windows 11 hardware powered by a high-performance Neural Processing Unit (NPU) — a specialized computer chip for AI-intensive processes like real-time translations and image generation—that can perform more than 40 trillion operations per second (TOPS) 💪 Have you seen the Copilot+ PCs Developer Guide yet? ✍️ Check it out for info on: ✅ Device Prerequisites ✅ Arm-based Snapdragon Elite X chip? ✅ Unique AI features supported by Copilot+ PCs with an NPU ✅ How to access the NPU on a Copilot+ PC ✅ How to use ONNX Runtime to programmatically access the NPU on a Copilot+ PC ✅ How to measure performance of AI models running locally on the device NPU More here: https://lnkd.in/gRgCMU8U

Lewis Menelaws chats with Microsoft's Principal Product Manager Lead Clint Rutkas and Product Manager Ethan Fang at Microsoft Build about an overview of PowerToys, underrated PowerToys utilities, the new PowerToys Advanced Paste, and more! What is PowerToys? PowerToys is a set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows experience for greater productivity. What is Advanced Paste? Advanced Paste enables you to quickly and contextually transform clipboard contents before pasting it within any application. It can be enhanced with an AI-powered option that is 100% opt-in and requires an OpenAI key. Watch the full interview: https://lnkd.in/gK7v3xW4

Want to learn more about Advanced Paste 📋 ? Check out Craig A. Loewen's in-depth guide to the latest Microsoft PowerToys feature here! 📺👇 https://lnkd.in/gZ6bxW5v

Windows Copilot Runtime is everything a developer needs to build incredible AI experiences.💡🩵 Whether you are just getting started or already have your own models, Copilot Runtime can help you further your AI experience. Windows Copilot Runtime includes: - Windows Copilot Library, a set of APIs that are powered by the 40+ on-device AI models that ship with Windows. - AI frameworks and toolchains, to help you bring your own on-device models to Windows. ➕ It's built on the foundation of powerful client silicon, including GPUs and NPUs Learn what Divya Venkataramu and Tiffany Janzen had to say about it! https://lnkd.in/gzr8-sbT.