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It amazes Brien how much technology has improved over the decades, but he's still using the same video-capture technique he wrote about for Windows 95.
06/09/2021
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Microsoft is planning to describe the next direction it'll be taking with its Windows operating system in a June 24 "What's New for Windows" online presentation.
06/02/2021
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Microsoft announced a few Windows 10 advancements for developers during Build, including the Project Reunion 0.8 preview and Windows Subsystem for Linux enhancements.
05/27/2021
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Microsoft last week announced that its Internet Explorer 11 desktop browser will be "retired" next year for certain Windows 10 versions.
05/24/2021
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Microsoft won't be delivering Windows 10X at all, the company confirmed in a blog post Tuesday.
05/18/2021
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Microsoft makes the Windows installation media available for download, but you will have to put it into a format that aligns with how you plan to use the installation files.
05/14/2021
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Hyper-V virtual machines have their uses, but the sandbox feature in Windows 10 can work just as well, is easier to set up and takes up much less disk space.
05/10/2021
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The Adobe Flash Player will get removed from most Windows systems via Microsoft's patch service in July, according to an updated Windows blog post.Â
05/05/2021
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Microsoft on Thursday issued yet another reminder to organizations that Skype for Business Online will be ending on July 31, 2021, and they should be moving to Microsoft Teams.
04/30/2021
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Lest the impression set in that Teams usage growth plateaued early in the pandemic, CEO Satya Nadella uncorked a massive new number as part of Microsoft's Q3 earnings release.
04/28/2021
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Microsoft announced that "commercial preview" versions of the new Microsoft Office long-term servicing channel (LTSC) for Windows product and the Office 2021 for Mac product were released.
04/27/2021
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Microsoft Teams paid business subscribers can now opt into getting access to a "public preview" release of the Microsoft Viva Learning application, according to a Monday announcement.
04/26/2021
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Microsoft this week announced new personal work enhancement features for Microsoft 365 subscribers that are now available at the preview stage in Microsoft Outlook and Viva Insights applications.
04/23/2021
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Predictive text and "friendly" URL formatting might be helpful to some Word users, but are more of a distraction to others. If you're in the second group, here's how to disable them.
04/23/2021
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Microsoft on Wednesday announced the release of Windows 10 preview build 21364 for Windows Insider Program Dev Channel testers, which notably adds support for running graphical user interface (GUI)-based Linux applications.
04/22/2021
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
The new live transcription feature in Teams is much-needed, but there's one more feature that Microsoft could add to make Teams truly indispensable to meetings. If only AI technology is advanced enough for it.
04/21/2021
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Veteran Microsoft 365 expert Asif Rehmani offers his perspective on how Microsoft Viva will meet the needs of end users, the SharePoint community and Microsoft's longtime partners.
04/20/2021
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Microsoft announced on Monday that its Microsoft 365 Defender console now combines information from three of its enterprise security solutions at the "general availability" commercial-release stage.
04/19/2021
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
After showing up at a Teams conference looking distinctly blue, Brien went looking for a better videoconferencing setup that's specifically designed for Teams meetings. Here are the three devices that caught his eye.
04/19/2021
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Microsoft on Thursday released an updated Surface Tools for IT version 1.0 bundle, which typically now includes support for the new Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 devices, according to an announcement.
04/16/2021
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Microsoft soon will let IT pros apply updates to installed Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio 2019 products using so-called "administrator updates," according to a Thursday announcement.
04/09/2021
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After one of his PCs came close to overheating, Brien is more vigilant than ever about monitoring its CPU temperature. Here's the setup he's using to do it. Bonus: no annoying app notifications required.
04/07/2021
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Brien walks through the process of diagnosing and fixing an overheated machine. First step, especially with summer right around the corner: Invest in a thermal imaging camera.
04/05/2021
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Organizations licensing Microsoft 365 services can easily succumb to cost pitfalls, according to a Thursday talk by the Directions on Microsoft consultancy.
04/02/2021
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Microsoft on Wednesday described SharePoint Online capabilities arriving as early as April for Microsoft 365 subscribers that opt to get "targeted release" feature updates.
03/31/2021