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If you want to disguise the room behind you in a Microsoft Teams meeting, here’s how to change the virtual background. Zoom has been the digital meeting app of choice …

The KrebsOnSecurity name has been invoked in a string of cyberattacks linked to critical Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities.  Security expert Brian Krebs from KrebsOnSecurity is no stranger to figures in …

Like every other video conferencing tools, Microsoft Teams is also far from perfect, but it’s getting better year by year. Despite various flaws, it remains one of our favourite services …

Last year, Microsoft was slowly starting to ramp up its Azure Availability Zone coverage. Today, March 17, officials publicly committed to offering Azure Availability Zones in every county in which …

Credit: Microsoft Microsoft released a new Windows 10 Insider test build to the Dev Channel on March 17. As usual lately, that build had a few fairly minor feature tweaks …

Box and Microsoft are announcing a series of new integrations between Box and Microsoft’s 365 and Teams platforms that aim to make it easier for Box customers to access and …

A lot of things have changed on Windows 10, but File Explorer has largely remained unchanged and it’s technically the same for more than a decade now if you exclude …

Credit: Microsoft Microsoft’s mainstream rollout of the next feature update for Windows 10 is continuing to inch closer to the goal line. On March 18, Microsoft officials announced Windows 10 …

Microsoft has implemented an automatic mitigation tool within Defender Antivirus to tackle critical vulnerabilities in Exchange Server. On March 18, the Redmond giant said the software will automatically mitigate CVE-2021-26855, …

Microsoft has been working on the “Sun Valley” update (also known as 21H2) with a new Start Menu, Action Center, rounded corners, and other improvements. As part of the Windows …

A former IT contractor with a grudge has been sentenced after mass-deleting the majority of a company’s Microsoft accounts.  Deepanshu Kher was sentenced to two years in prison for breaking …

This month’s optional update for Windows 10 version 1909 is now rolling out. As always, Microsoft has also published Windows 10 KB5000850 offline installers, which you can download to apply …

Microsoft’s Chromium-based Edge for Linux is getting sign-in and sync support for saving favourites, passwords, browser data and extensions across devices.  The sync feature is shipping in Edge 91.0.831.1 to …

While the ‘real’ Surface Pro 8 is rumoured to launch in October or November, Microsoft is still planning to launch the Surface Laptop 4 (a minor refresh) sometime in April …

Microsoft says that 92% of Exchange servers vulnerable to a set of critical vulnerabilities have now been patched or mitigations have been applied.  The Redmond giant’s Security Response team said …

According to code commits reviewed by us, Microsoft is working on a number of improvements to inking in Chromium-based browsers, such as Edge and Chrome. The software giant decided to …

Oracle and Microsoft are teaming up to help TIM Brasil, Brazil’s largest telecom provider, migrate all of its on-premises workloads to the cloud. The move will make TIM Brasil the …

Chromium-based Microsoft Edge has gotten very popular since its debut last year and as it continues to gain popularity in the browser market, new features and customization options are being …

Microsoft has released a preview of the fixes in the Windows 10 20H2 update coming in next month’s Patch Tuesday, as well as a fix for a printer glitch affecting …

Microsoft has confirmed that it will remove “Edit with Paint 3D” from Windows 10 context menu with the next feature update. If you don’t know what Paint 3D is, then …

Averaging values in an Excel sheet is easy. But perhaps you want to ignore zeros or include multiple sheets. Knowing how each averaging function works is the key to choosing …

Credit: Discord Microsoft has been looking to acquire that could bring it a new community of consumers for the past year or more. It looks like its plans could come …

With Windows 10, you’ve got an almost limitless number of ways to customize it. And the tech giant is now working on another personalization feature that will suggest tools and …

TIM Brasil is partnering with Oracle and Microsoft to migrate all of its essential operations out of the data center. Image: iStock/phototechno TIM Brasil, one of the largest telecommunications providers …

Microsoft is rolling out its AI-powered live transcription service in Microsoft Teams, answering Zoom’s recent expansion of its own live transcription feature.   Competition remains fierce in the video-meeting market …

Taskbar could be getting separated from Windows File Explorer (explorer.exe), with the feature possible getting its separate process in future. References to these changes were spotted in preview builds of …