Microsoft gives Teams several new features
Microsoft has unveiled several new features for Microsoft Teams. These include a function to blur the background in a video, more support for functions on mobile devices and image annotation, says Silicon Angle.
The new background blur feature is for videos. This way, distractions in the backgroun... Read more
Microsoft Surface Hub 2 has removable processor cartridge
The Microsoft Surface Hub 2 will be released in the second quarter of 2019. But Microsoft does that in two editions. The edition that will be released next year will be called Hub 2S and a year later the company will release the Surface Hub 2X.
Microsoft reports this in an extensive blog. Surface Hu... Read more
Microsoft adds ‘commercial’ LinkedIn revenue to ‘Commercial Cloud
Microsoft acquired LinkedIn in 2016 for 26.2 billion dollars. Since then, it has published the turnover of the platform separately from the rest of the turnover that the company generates. From now on, however, the "commercial figures" of the platform will be placed under Commercial Cloud, with the ... Read more
Microsoft expands Dynamics 365 with three new AI features
Microsoft adds a touch of artificial intelligence to Dynamics 365. The cloud software package for ERP and CRM will be supplemented with three new modules in the coming months, which will introduce specific AI functions.
Artificial intelligence is one of the three pillars of Microsoft's vision of the... Read more
Microsoft releases two new business applications for the HoloLens
Microsoft has unveiled a number of new applications for the HoloLens to make the augmented reality headset more useful for companies. These are applications within the Dynamics 365 software, which are called Dynamics 365 Layout and Dynamics 365 Remote Assistant.
The purpose of both of the new applic... Read more
Windows file may contain all your documents, emails and passwords
If you have a Windows computer with a touch screen, there's a good chance that your device has been collecting sensitive data in recent months or even years. These include passwords and even complete e-mails.
That's what Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) security researcher Barnaby Ske... Read more
Number of apps in the Windows Store fell by 87 percent in two years’ time.
Microsoft spent years trying to get Windows users to use new, modern apps. But that experiment failed. According to MS Poweruser, the number of apps in the Windows Store fell extremely sharply between 2014 and 2016.
The figures come from Microsoft documents that were part of a court case with dismi... Read more
Microsoft releases new Insider Preview-build for Windows 10 19H1
Microsoft today released a new Insider Preview Build for Windows 10. It concerns Build 18242 (19H1) for Skip Ahead users. The build does not bring any new features, but it does bring a lot of improvements, fixes and small changes.
Windows 10 19H1 is the major Windows release which should follow the ... Read more
Microsoft offers new managed desktop service for businesses
Microsoft has unveiled a new service that allows companies to have all Windows 10 devices within an organization managed by Microsoft. This concerns Microsoft Managed Desktop, which is only made available to business customers.
Microsoft Managed Desktop (MMD) allows business users to outsource the m... Read more
Microsoft patcht vulnerability that cripples Windows servers
Microsoft released a patch for FragmentSmack. The attack drives the CPU consumption of a Windows system up to 100 percent, so that it no longer responds. The vulnerability is ideal for DDoS attacks on Windows servers.
FragmentSmack (CVE-2018-5391) has been known in the Linux community for a long tim... Read more