1 Principles2 Windows Privacy In a blog post, Redmond is now pushing governments to create a universal international law to limit access to personal data. Additionally, the company wants authorities to create rules for when data can be accessed, and how. “As a global company entrusted by millions of users, we believe it is important for Microsoft to make clear how governments should address these issues,” Microsoft says. For that reason, we are sharing six principles that have driven, and will continue to drive, our advocacy as governments reform their laws and negotiate international agreements....

A little more than a year after unveiling Microsoft Flow, the company has released its app for Windows Phone to the Windows Store. In the blog post, Microsoft notes that the Flow app for Windows Phone devices is similar to the Flow Mobile app for iOS and Android. It allows users to create and monitor flows, receive notifications, and more. Of course, the Windows Phone Microsoft Flow app comes with known features which allow users to:...

Organizations can integrate their security operations into VAST. The solution combines the abilities of Power BI and Azure Log Analytics to present data visualization of security states. This makes understanding security situations easier for companies. “Visual Auditing Security Tool (VAST) is a cloud-based PowerBI dashboard solution that provides security professionals visibility about the many of the most common types of security weaknesses in an IT environment. It also provides specific, actionable KPI-based metrics to measure your organization’s effectiveness in mitigating well-established, known attack playbooks....

By leveraging Bing Maps Local Search and Bing Maps Location Recognition, Soundscape is oriented to users who are blind or have poor vision. By using the intelligent voice mapping technology, the users can move around their neighborhood. It is worth noting Microsoft first detailed Soundscape a year ago, but has expended on the technology in a recent blog post. Melanie Kneisel, a Microsoft Research engineer, says the app uses automatic call outs....

If you are unfamiliar with the Bounty Program, it is an initiative that gives hackers rewards for finding flaws in Microsoft Windows, Azure DevOps, and Cloud solutions. The Bounty Program has extended across Azure (April 2015) and Office 365 (August 2015). In September, 2016 the Bug Bounty also extended to the Microsoft Edge Insider Program. During 2018, the Microsoft Bounty Program debuted as a catch-all program. This new overhaul is focused directly on the Windows Insider Preview bounty program....

1 Windows 10 Version 2004 and Insider Version 20H22 Versions 1909 and 19033 Windows 10 18094 Unsupported Versions Considering the recent history of Patch Tuesday’s, we are unsure whether to greet new updates with excitement or concern. That’s because these updates have a nasty habit of fixing one issue but causing others. Recently, Microsoft sent out a fix for Windows Search that has left users unable to boot their PCs. In April, that month’s release also triggered BSODs in Windows 10....

Microsoft’s Richard Lander says the company has been focused on tweaking and polishing .NET Core 3 and that the final release is “very, very close”. Many users were not expecting a release candidate build at all. Microsoft originally pointed to the final preview (Preview 9) being the last major release before the final version. However, the company changed tact and opted for the RC1 update to coincide with Visual Studio 2019 16....

“When users navigate to a site, the extension checks the URL against a list of enterprise sites defined by enterprise administrators. If the site is determined to be untrusted, the user is redirected to an isolated Microsoft Edge session,” explained Microsoft. “In the isolated Microsoft Edge session, the user can freely navigate to any site that has not been explicitly defined as enterprise-trusted by their organization without any risk to the rest of system....

If you are unfamiliar with Custom Translator, it brings a new way for organizations to add customizations to neural machine translation systems. Microsoft says businesses can boost the quality of translations by building their own neural models. These models can be developed to host the organizations own pre-translated content. Customer translator is underpinned by Azure and is an extension of the Translator Text API within Cognitive Services. Once a neural translation model is customized, Microsoft Translator will integrate it into applications, websites, and other organizational locations....

Of more accurately, it’s not that an update has problems. Instead, a new update for Windows 10 is arriving with drivers that are not compatible with machines. Users are reporting they are receiving drivers that are not designed for their brand or model. All the drivers are being sent out to all Windows 10 devices, aside from those on the Windows Insider Program. As for the update, it is “Intel-System”, which has been rolling out since the middle of last week as part of an optional driver package....

“Ninja is going to be streaming exclusively on Mixer! We couldn’t be more hyped for this news and what it means for our community. We’re committed to building the best and most positive streaming community, as well as continuing to foster growth,” wrote Josh Stein, Social Lead at Mixer on the official Mixer Discord server, via OnMSFT. The announcement led to an immediate uptick in the downloads of Microsoft’s Mixer app....

One of the interesting things about the Mixed Reality Viewer is that it may miss the Fall Creators Update. The next major Windows 10 release is Redstone 3 (FCU) and has been in preview testing on the Inside since April. However, the Mixed Reality Viewer is currently in the Skip Ahead feature on the Fast Ring. If you are unfamiliar with Skip Ahead, it allows Insiders to move ahead a branch....

The company says expansion to other platforms allows Quantum Development Kit to reach more developers. Microsoft wants quantum computing to be the future and predicts it will solve many of today’s technological problems. First released in preview in December, Quantum Development Kit is the fruition of several years of development. The suite comes with a brand new programming language, called Q#. It has a compiler for scalable quantum computing. Visual Studio integration and Azure cloud support allows over 40 logical qubits of power....

The video is below and is worth checking out. However, you should set some time aside as it will cost an hour of your time. Still, Tim Golik, Director of Program Management for Microsoft, walks us through Surface and its growth. For example, he says the division is dedicated to innovation and engineering. Golik was speaking at Ignite, where he presented the video to attendees. When launched, the division was part of former CEO Steve Ballmer’s plan to morph Microsoft into a hardware company....

Microsoft launched SMS Organizer in India, but it has since arrive in the United Kingdom and United States. However, it is in India where the app has become increasingly popular. SMS Organizer is a useful tool despite the popularity of services like WhatsApp. At the moment it is only available in India, where many areas do not have the connection power to send messages online. SMS still plays a vital communication role in low-connectivity locations....

Users running Windows 10 on the Fast Ring of the Windows Insider Program are now seeing the new icons. Microsoft started revolutionizing icons with Fluent Design through its Office apps. However, these services (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) just scratched the surface. In December, Redmond announced new icons for hundreds of apps across the OS. Keeping in line with the ethos of Fluent Design, these icons will roll out in stages....

Ok, it seems rather pointless to be concerned over a lack of one component. However, a USB Type-C is an important port, and on a machine that costs $1000, it is very strange to see it omitted. Of course, during the development of the Surface Laptop, Microsoft went through numerous prototypes. It seems that one of the earlier editions of the Windows 10 S machine did have a USB Type-C port....

This time, the company is once again putting Google in its crosshairs. More specifically, the company’s Chromebooks. Two new ads make no apologies about saying Windows 10 is better than Chrome for education and business users. In the first ad, Microsoft focuses on business customers. The company says the Windows experience is ‘nothing short of superior’ compared to Googles platform. Microsoft cites features such as Windows Ink, Cortana, and Windows Hello as defining factors in this superiority....

According to Microsoft, users should instantly see a difference when they start searching on Teams. Firstly, the search is less messy with summary results providing more instant context. Microsoft is also adding more filters to make it easier to narrow down searches. Microsoft is putting an increasing focus on search, despite the company not being known as a major search name other than the so-so performance of Bing. As Microsoft Teams becomes increasingly integrated with Windows 11, search across the platform and app is important....

Microsoft Teams Changelog With this update, the Android version is boosted to 1.0.0.2017062601, and has the following enchancements: The iOS verson, now at 1.0.15, is very slightly different, missing the notifcation reply feature but addidng bug fixes and performance improvements: Though the changes are relatively few, they are actually fairly major. The sotrage option ability was announced for desktop last month, but it provides vital options for those who are reliant on Google Drive, Dropbox, and more....