Heads-on with Microsoft’s Hololens

b-1024x768Microsoft is in the midst of doing a demo tour of their HoloLens device and I went to check it out this past Saturday. As I’ve written before, I’m a big fan of the Hololens and its augmented reality (MS refers to it as “mixed reality”) capabilities, so I was excited to actually get to try one.

The headset itself, in its current state, looks pretty much like what we’ve seen in promo shots:

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Free VMs for Internet Explorer/Edge testing

Here’s a great resource to be aware of: Microsoft maintains a collection of freely-downloadable VMs, for a variety of OS/VM platforms, that enable you to test your web development against different combinations of MS Windows/IE. Options available for Windows, Mac and Linux-centric VM hosts! https://dev.windows.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/