Butterfield said part of the improvement was due to the signing of a large enterprise customer, highlighting an unnamed Fortune 100 financial services firm. “Of course, like most of our large enterprise customers, they run on Office 365,” he said. “They still chose Slack because only Slack was capable of meeting their needs. Increasingly, in regulated industries, we are seeing significant traction because Slack delivers security and compliance with scalability, an open platform and a great user experience....

According to WinFuture, Microsoft will launch a new Surface Pro 9 and a Surface Laptop 5. Neither of these is a major surprise, especially the Pro 9 which I have already discussed on this page. In fact, just this week the FCC cleared a Microsoft device that seems to be the Surface Pro 9 5G. Both the Pro 9 and Surface Laptop 5 will receive 12th Gen Intel CPUs, bumping from the 11th Gen CPUs in last year’s models....

The games will join titles such as Knights of the Old Republic, Red Faction II, Psychonauts, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, and more. With the release of the Xbox One X, players will be able to experience them at up to 16 times the pixel count. However, Microsoft is making it abundantly clear that these are not remasters. Though there are some tweaks for modern TVs, the content and graphics of the games will remain the same....

The Parabolic SAR strategy is a technical analysis tool that traders use to identify potential reversals in the price of a security. It can be used on any time frame but is most commonly used on the daily chart. The strategy is made up of two lines: the first line is called the “parabola” and it plots the movement of the security over time; the second line is called the “SAR” and it represents where the stop and reverse orders will be placed....

With a great employee onboarding program- You can engage your new hires, show them your company’s culture and attract them to stick with the company for a longer period. With a good onboarding program, your employees can kick start their journey with your organization on a high note. But, before we get to making the onboarding program engaging, let’s first understand what is onboarding and what it involves. An employee onboarding program is the process that helps your new hires seamlessly integrate into the company....

The issue has been detailed by the Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team. In a blog post, the team explains that hundreds of millions of TikTok users could be at risk from the bug. If an intended victim interacts with malicious links, the attack could take control of their account directly. Microsoft disclosed the bug to TikTok and the company has since issued a patch. However, like all security issues, the main problem comes from whether everybody installs the update carrying the patch....

Perhaps this is part of the problem, Microsoft cannot choose if it wants new or old. Of course, the company would argue it is giving users what they want. Some want the old Win32 experience, while others will embrace the modern concepts of app usership. In a blog post, Microsoft says it wants to make it easier to access Win32 APIs in more programming languages. Current Win32 APIs are only available in C++ and C....

A new API spotted by WalkingCat in Windows 10 build 18922 appears to suggest something of the sort. It contains references to pen buttons and a pen dock, while Twitter’s Albacore has discovered a new feature with the name PenTailDockEvents. The references appear to line up somewhat with a Microsoft patent called ‘Base Station for Use with Digital Pens’. In the patent, Microsoft talked about a dock that would store, charge, and sync the settings of a digital pen....

For people who use a pen a lot on Windows 10, the integration will be welcome as it allows them to writer emails on the app. Yes, this is exactly the same as pen support on other apps, such as Microsoft’s OneNote. With this integration, you are able to delete words, add new lines, and of course write words and sentences. Once you are finished, the app will automatically convert your handwriting into digital text....

A report from Thurrott.com suggests Microsoft is developing a new separate version of Windows 10 Mobile. To be clear, this would be a new variant of the mobile OS that would sit alongside the current branch. Brad Sims, author of the report, says this new Windows 10 Mobile branch will be for a new category of device. Sims claims that two independent Microsoft sources have relayed this information. The new software is being created for a new type of hardware that is currently going through internal testing....

We can now confirm that the system is back in build 16226. As before, you will find it in the settings app, and it will let you keep different versions of your files on another drive. However, users say that despite its return, they are unable to restore previous backups. Assumedly, this will also return in later builds. No Reason Given for Removal Though it’s clear that File History backup is here to stay, what’s less clear is why it was removed in the first place....

The plaintiffs say Windows 10 is a defective product that did not give sufficient warning before initiating installation. They argue that Microsoft did not provide enough clear warning about potential stability risks caused by upgrading to Windows 10 from older Windows build. Microsoft has responded publicly to the case and said it is “without merit”. However, the filing says the company “failed to exercise reasonable care in designing, formulating, and manufacturing the Windows 10 upgrade and placing it into the stream of commerce,” the complaint claims....

1 Defer2 Windows 10 Home Any organization (and even individual home users) should put a delay on updating to a new Windows 10 build that is fresh out of the box. Initial updates are usually not particularly stable and over the last year Microsoft has proved why you should hold off on updating. 2018 was a year to forget in terms of Windows updates. Last April, Windows 10 1803 was delayed for over 20 days due to finalization problems....

As a recap, Google Project Zero was created to find zero-day vulnerabilities in services. The company warns software providers of the flaw, giving them 90 days to solve it. When the 90 days pass, any unsolved vulnerabilities are made public. The two flaws found in Microsoft services last month passed the limit without a fix. Google says Project Zero exists to promote openness and to push software providers to solve problems....

1 Start Menu/Taskbar2 File Explorer3 UI Improvements4 Settings App5 Task Manager6 Accessibility Before getting into the features and details of this update, it is worth noting Microsoft has gone with the branding first discussed back in August. Specifically, the Windows 11 2022 Update name. Microsoft says Windows 11 will only receive one major update each year, so attaching the year to those updates makes sense. So, we can expect next year’s release to be called Windows 11 2023 Update....

Windows 11 testers are seeing an error message form Windows Security that says “You’ll need a new app to this windowsdefender link”. Considering the number of reports regarding the message, it seems to be widespread across many Windows Insiders. It seems a recent (broken) Microsoft update is the cause of the problem. The issue is within the Windows Security app, which is the hub for managing security features across Windows 11, including Microsoft Defender....

In an interview with Rolling Stone, Microsoft confirmed SteamVR games will come to Windows Mixed Reality next week. While the platform is arguably more about enterprise and practical applications in the long term, games and entertainment are important. Tying up one of the biggest catalogs of virtual reality games available gives Microsoft something to sell to the casual user. At first, SteamVR content will be available in a preview program....

Christian Reber, who founded Wunderlist 2011 wants to buy back the company that grew to 13 million users by 2015. Reber says is reason is to save the app from closing permanently. It quickly emerged after Microsoft’s acquisition that Redmond had specific plans for the app. Wunderlist would be cannibalized by Microsoft To-Do, the company’s new task management application. — Christian Reber (@christianreber) September 6, 2019 It was a path with plenty of headaches....

New research conducted by Ars Technica shows that Backward Compatibility titles account for just 1.5 percent of total gaming minutes for Xbox One gamers. The website used a third-party API to take a random sample of gaming usage on Microsoft console. Data was gathered from nearly one million Xbox One gamertags over a five-month period from last September. Before continuing, it is always worth mentioning that this is just a snapshot and by no means definitive....

One of the first issues observed last month was so-called Zoom Bombing. Users have been reporting cases where bad actors were accessing Zoom meetings. When doing so, the unknown parties were leaving sexist remarks, racist messages, and pornographic images. In an effort to reduce ZoomBombing, the company has rolled out some new measures. In an email to users, Zoom says: “We’ve chosen to enable passwords on your meetings and turn on Waiting Rooms by default as additional security enhancements to protect your privacy....