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Amazon Quick adds Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint extensions and updates the Word extension (Preview) - devamazonaws.blogspot.com

Today, Amazon Quick introduces new and upgraded Microsoft 365 extensions in preview for Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, enabling Quick to perform tasks directly within users’ Microsoft 365 environments. These extensions allow you to use AI to perform complex local tasks such as redlining documents, building financial models, and creating presentation-ready decks. The Microsoft Excel extension helps with complex spreadsheet analysis, creating pivot tables and charts, and importing and cleaning data. The Microsoft PowerPoint extension helps you create and refine presentations from Quick data using organization-defined templates. Updates to the Microsoft Word extension include the ability to generate formatted documents with Word primitives, make sweeping edits with track changes enabled, and participate as a reviewer in comments. These extensions transform daily work across teams. Finance teams can build complex models by describing what they need, and sales teams can draft proposals tha...
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Amazon GameLift Streams now supports Proton 10 runtime - devamazonaws.blogspot.com

Amazon GameLift Streams now supports Proton 10, an updated version of the Proton compatibility layer for running Windows games on Linux-based stream classes. Proton 10 improves game compatibility for newer titles, has updated graphic translation layers for improved performance (VKD3D/DXVK) for many titles, updates to the Media Foundation to fix black screen, color bar, long standing video playback issues, and much more. With Proton 10, game developers can stream a broader catalog of Windows titles — including modern DirectX 12 games — to end users on any device with improved rendering quality and performance. Proton 10 is available at no additional cost; existing Amazon GameLift Streams pricing for Linux stream classes applies. You can use Proton 10 in all AWS Regions where Amazon GameLift Streams is available. For a full list of supported Regions, see the AWS Region table. To get started, select Proton 10 as the runtime when creating or updating stream groups. To learn more, s...
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[MS] VSTest is Removing its Newtonsoft.Json Dependency - devamazonaws.blogspot.com

Starting in .NET 11 Preview 4 and Visual Studio 18.8, VSTest, the platform that powers dotnet test and Test Explorer, will no longer depend on Newtonsoft.Json. The platform will now use System.Text.Json on .NET and JSONite on .NET Framework. This is a servicing and security change. Most projects require no action. A small number of projects will see an obvious build or test failure and can resolve it with a one line PackageReference. Why this change? VSTest has shipped Newtonsoft.Json as part of the .NET SDK and Visual Studio for years. All versions of Newtonsoft.Json below 13.0.0 are now marked vulnerable on NuGet.org, and carrying the dependency exposes the test platform to future advisories in a component it no longer needs. Removing it is part of the broader effort to remove Newtonsoft.Json from the .NET SDK. What is not changing? The VSTest wire format is unchanged. Messages serialize identically whether Newtonsoft.Json, System.Text.Json, or JSONite is used. Older testhosts...
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[MS] General Availability: Refresh Token (RT) Transfer to Apple Watch in Microsoft Entra External ID Native Authentication - devamazonaws.blogspot.com

We’re excited to announce the General Availability (GA) of Single Sign-On (SSO) from Native Apps to Embedded Web Views for Microsoft Entra External ID (EEID) Native Authentication. This release marks a major milestone in delivering end-to-end seamless authentication experiences for modern CIAM applications bridging the gap between native and web-based app surfaces. [cta-button align='center' text='Get started with Native Authentication on iOS/macOS' url='https://ift.tt/Bv96DLp' color='#0078D4'] Why RT transfer matters for Native Auth Native Authentication enables developers to build fully in‑app, customizable sign-in experiences with secure token management. However, modern applications increasingly extend beyond a single device. Real-world scenarios include: Companion apps (e.g., Apple Watch) Widgets and background experiences Multi-surface mobile ecosystems In these cases, devices like Apple Watch must independently access APIs even when di...
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[MS] SDK-Style Support for Extension Projects - devamazonaws.blogspot.com

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Starting in Visual Studio 18.5 , you can create and build Visual Studio extensions (VSIX) using an officially supported SDK-style project. This brings VSIX projects into the modern build and deployment pipeline, improving incremental build performance and making the build → deploy → debug workflow more reliable. Install the Visual Studio extension development workload to get the templates and tooling and try it out for yourself! Note: Extensions written using the modern VisualStudio.Extensibility framework already supports SDK-style projects today. This update extends the same SDK-style experience to VSSDK-based Visual Studio extensions.  What We Are Adding: Official SDK-style support for projects that produce VSSDK-based extensions. Build time reductions of up to 75%! We’ve added end-to-end incremental build support including Fast Up To Date Check and up to date deployment logic. Through internal adoption, we see a reduction of up to 75% in build time in large solutions fo...
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[MS] The New Loop: How Power Pages Builds Software with AI - devamazonaws.blogspot.com

Introduction When I started writing software professionally in 2015, the tech landscape looked completely different. Tools and frameworks kept evolving since then, but the process of building software barely moved for a decade. That changed in the last couple of months. Here's what has changed in how the Power Pages team builds and ships software and what hasn't. Development in the age of AI Before the arrival of coding agents like GitHub Copilot, Claude Code etc., software development was role-focused where the job of a product manager, designer, the engineer and tester was clearly defined. In fact, you can still see it in job postings. However, with AI and tools like GitHub Copilot, the boundary between these roles is getting blurred. If we focus on code-writing part of software development, something which used to take 2 weeks can now be done in 2 hours. What does the engineer do with this additional time? This is something everyone is trying to answer and where the fear ...
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Introducing Amazon EC2 C8ine and M8ine instances - devamazonaws.blogspot.com

AWS is announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 C8ine and Amazon EC2 M8ine instances, powered by custom sixth generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, available only on AWS. These also instances feature the latest sixth generation AWS Nitro cards. C8ine and M8ine instances deliver up to 43% higher performance compared to previous generation C6in and M6in instances. C8ine and M8ine instances offer up to 2.5 times higher packet performance per vCPU versus prior generation network optimized instances. They provide up to 2x higher network throughput for traffic going through Internet gateways compared to existing C6in and M6in network optimized instances.  Both instance families are designed for security and network virtual appliances, including virtual firewalls, load balancers, and Telco 5G UPF workloads. Amazon EC2 C8ine instances are available in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo), while Amazon EC2 M8ine instances are available in US Ea...
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