Microsoft Launches Family Safety App

Microsoft rolled out its new Family Safety app for iOS and Android users which makes parents will be able to monitor the time spent by the kids on devices and limit hours of play.

According to Microsoft , the app a measure of monitoring a child’s digital activity, the app will send an email to both the parents and the kids every week. The screen time, duration of apps used and the most visited websites will be strategically drawn up.

This new app will send an email request to your Microsoft account whenever your children are trying to purchase something from the Microsoft Store. Hence, you cannot be billed for any game or movie without your knowledge.

Family Safety App

According to business standard, with the help of the Family Safety app, one can use web and search filters to block adult content and set browsing to kid-friendly websites with either allowed or blocked websites list.

This feature helps in maintaining healthy digital habits and works in a tight concert with the Microsoft Edge browser on Windows, Xbox, and Android.

Later, 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.

Noteworthy, 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.

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.

Windows 10

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.