Microsoft, Google to Cooperate in Play Store App

Microsoft is collaborating with Google to help bring more progressive web apps to Android devices through the Play Store. PWABuilder is Microsoft’s developer tool that helps developers build PWAs and publish them in app stores. Bubblewrap is Google’s command line utility and library to generate and sign Google Play Store packages from Progressive Web Apps.

This gives creators more reasons to use Microsoft’s toolkit, while Google gets more developers who build Android-friendly web apps instead of pointing people to generic apps inside a browser.

Play Store

Later, the firm announced a new update for Windows systems for desktop and laptop computers. Windows 10 May 2020 brings new features to users, including the integration of the Windows subsystem with Linux2, which will help developers better introduce new changes and improvements to computer operating systems.

Also, this update came with great improvements to the audio assistant “Cortana”, as it became possible to separate it from the task bar on the computer, and this assistant got additional search phrases that facilitate the user to search for news or see the weather.

According to eg24, this update also provided users with additional capabilities to rename devices on the virtual desktop, and also addressed some problems that were harassing users while trying to connect their computers with other devices via Bluetooth.

Windows systems

Noteworthy, the firm released Windows 2020 Update 20H1 and build 19041.207 to Windows Insiders .

According to Tech news, if you want the update early before testing is finished, you can join the Release Preview update track on your Windows 10 PC by heading to Settings > Update & Security > Windows Insider Program, enabling Insider builds on your system selecting “Just fixes, apps, and drivers.

You’ll receive early versions of Windows 10 updates and apps before they’re released to the wider public. Again, we don’t recommend this for most people.

Microsoft is also promising to update this kernel through Windows Update, and it will be open source so developers can create their own WSL kernel and contribute changes.

Noteworthy, Microsoft announced ”Windows 10X” version during its fall Surface hardware event in early October. At that time, officials described Windows 10X as built for “dual-screen PCs.” Officials made no mention of 10X being available on any other type of device in early October.

Microsoft has designed its Surface devices. Because the Windows, Office and Surface teams all work together on building hardware and software experiences these days, the choice of wording isn’t coincidental. The unified Microsoft Search technology will be front and center on Windows 10X devices.

internet via balloons

Also, Google revealed that it was working to provide internet via balloons floating in the stratosphere. Loon is an independent Alphabet company, today announced its first commercial operation in partnership with an internet service provider in Kenya.

This is a first in many ways: the first non-emergency use of Loon to provide connectivity on a large-scale basis, the first application of balloon-powered internet in Africa, and the first of what will be many commercial deployments around the world.

Working with Telkom Kenya after testing last year, Loon is providing internet for a 50,000 square kilometer region that covers the “western and central parts of the country, including the areas of Iten, Eldoret, Baringo, Nakuru, Kakamega, Kisumu, Kisii, Bomet, Kericho, and Narok.

Google glasses

In addition, Google announced that it acquired North, an 8-year-old, Amazon-backed company that makes smart glasses, according to Crunchbase.

Google was an early pioneer in the field of augmented reality, where computer-generated images are superimposed over the real world, often in a pair of computerized glasses.