1 How to Use a Microsoft Word Business Card Template2 How to Make Business Cards in Word From Scratch3 Extra: How to Merge and Split Tables and Cells4 Extra: How to Merge Word Documents As a result, today we’re going to show you how to make your own business cards in Word so that you can print them at home for minimal cost. The truth is that with social media and websites available, your business cards don’t need to be anything flashy....

1 How to Show File Extensions in Windows 10 via Folder Options2 How to Show File Extensions in Windows 10 via File Explorer3 How to Enable Filename Extensions in Windows 10 Using the Registry Editor4 Enable File Extensions with Command Prompt5 How to Change a File Extension in Windows 10 What are file extensions? File extensions are the letters you see following the ‘.’ at the end of a file name....

1 How to Turn off Notifications in Windows 10 via Settings2 How to Turn Off Notifications in Windows 10 with Regedit3 How to Block Notifications for Specific Apps or Senders in Settings Doing so will stop the Windows 10 pop-ups that get in the way of your browsing, and will also shut up Win 10’s often earsplitting dings. Naturally, though, when you stop notifications you risk missing out on important emails and messages....

1 HP Spectre x360 152 The Pavilion Wave Of course, not all of this is new. HP first unveiled its Envy x2 last month with a Snapdragon 835. However, its new version contains a 7th Gen Intel Y series processor, allowing for a bump in performance. It also features a more solid kickstand, versus the Snapdragon’s more flexible one. Unfortunately, it all comes at a cost. The Intel x2 cuts the battery life down to just 15 hours versus the Snapdragon’s 22....

Microsoft 365 will continue to be the cloud-first bundle of Microsoft services such as Office, Windows, Defender, and more. At Ignite, Microsoft is highlighting a bunch of updates for apps within Microsoft 365 but is also debuting a new central hub for the package. As the recent Microsoft Work Trend Index highlights, managers and leaders still have “productivity paranoia” around hybrid workplaces. Rather than encourage a back-to-the-office policy, Microsoft prefers to give businesses the tools to feel more confident with workers who work remotely....

Edward Snowden’s leaks revealed that hundreds of millions of Americans are being targetted by the NSA. Not just those who are under suspicion – everyone. In the UK, GCHQ was taking millions of images of unsuspecting users to fuel facial recognition software. But the bigger concern for many is not the government but malicious third parties. Once infected, a PC can be used by attackers to spy on its user to gather blackmail material, information about their home security, or simply post online....

The fault, according to Microsoft, is with AMD. “After investigating, Microsoft has determined that some AMD chipsets do not conform to the documentation previously provided to Microsoft to develop the Windows operating system mitigations to protect against the chipset vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown,” said a spokesperson. “To prevent AMD customers from getting into an unbootable state, Microsoft will temporarily pause sending the following Windows operating system updates to devices with impacted AMD processors at this time....

If you’re unfamiliar with Horizon Worlds, it is a relatively new game that is currently only available in the United States and Canada. It runs on Oculus Rift and is one of the new games directly targeting the metaverse. Below is the official description for the game: “Horizon Worlds is a social experience where you can explore, play and create. Discover new places with friends, solve interactive puzzles or form teams to compete in action-packed games....

A new version of Windows 10 designed for internal use within Microsoft was accidentally rolled out to Insiders. This update features the new Start menu design that will likely arrive with Windows 10 20H1 next year. The build in question is Windows 10 build 18947, which was meant for internal testing on Xbox consoles. Instead, Microsoft accidentally sent the build to Windows Insiders on 32-bit devices. It is available to all Windows testers, including the release preview, fast ring, and slow ring branches....

“Anyone using the latest version of the standard Acrobat Reader app will now have the industry-leading protection of Intune when handling their corporate documents and forms on mobile devices,” explained Microsoft CVP Brad Anderson in a blog post. As a result of the change, Adobe’s ‘Acrobat Reader for Intune’ app will reach end of service by December 1. Users are prompted to update their Adobe Reader app instead for exactly the same functionality....

Yes, this is the exact same contract that used to be called the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) plan. This controversial cloud system would see the storage of classified Pentagon data for AI-based war planning. Delay While that could mean good news for Microsoft, the legal bickering has delayed the announcement of the “war cloud” winner. Concerns over the project have been widespread, even Microsoft’s own staff have protested the company bidding for the contract....

The five companies all have huge reserves of cash and used it to spend more than $115bn during the first three quarters of 2018 on buying back stock. President Trump’s tax laws came into effect in late 2017 and it is clear tech giants are benefitting. A report in the Financial Times says stock buyback numbers for the five companies is nearly double what it was during the entirety of 2017....

The tech giant is planning on deeper integrations with LinkedIn, specifically in its Office suite. After connecting the two platforms, users will be able to co-author documents with people in their network directly in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Meanwhile, Outlook users will be able to send emails directly to those in their network and look up event attendees without leaving the app. The result is an intristic link between Microsoft’s two products, making that revenue change more sensical....

At ISE 2017 yesterday, the Redmond giant announced a similar model for its Surface Hub. The device allows for a collaborative experience in workplaces via large, multi-touch screen. To date, over 2,000 customers use the tool. The move is reminiscent of a recent shift by organizations to subscription models. Microsoft quotes statistics from IDC, where 73% of respondents stated a move to such methods in the next three years. The Surface Hub subscription will include initial investment and configuration costs....

With its latest update, Microsoft Authenticator does away with that annoyance. After numerous requests, it has enabled a backup and recovery feature. This will keep all accounts when moving phone, avoiding the time-consuming process of resetting each service. The backup and recovery feature has been rolling out to various users over the past few weeks but is now available to all. Users can toggle it on under a new ‘Backup’ section in Settings, and click ‘Begin Recovery’....

If you’re unfamiliar with Azure Speech, it is baked into Microsoft’s Azure Cognitive Services platform. It offers text-to-speech, speech translation, and speech-to-text services in a developer-friendly system. Looking at the new additions, pronunciation assessment is a service that evaluates the pronunciation of speech. The capability then provides feedback based on the fluency and accuracy of the spoke language. In a blog post, Microsoft describes the benefits of the tool: “With pronunciation assessment, language learners can practice, get instant feedback, and improve their pronunciation so that they can speak and present with confidence....

Introducing this support to Azure Site Recovery allows for simpler disk management for Azure IaaS virtual machines. Microsoft points out that this removes problems with managing storage for machines after failover. Additionally, the new ability also improves general reliability for Availability Sets. ASR can now automatically place failed over VMs into different storage scale units. This means the platform can avoid single points of failure. In its announcement, Microsoft says managed disks can only be created for virtual machines deployed using Resource manager model....

Insiders on the Fast Ring branch will now have the client packaged into Windows 10. Importantly, the protocol allows Windows 10 to connect with the internet while avoiding the old DNS system when communicating with domains. If you’re unfamiliar, DNS, or the Domain Name System, it allows users to type ‘winbuzzer.com’ into their browser and be directed to its actual location, a series of dots and numbers known as its IP address....

OneNote has quickly become an important application for Microsoft. It is a communication link for education groups and organizations within Office 365. Over the last year especially, we have seen Microsoft increase the number of features for the app. With support for Immersive Reader, OneNote now get the following capabilities: Read Aloud—Reads text out loud with simultaneous highlighting that improves decoding, fluency and comprehension while sustaining the reader’s focus and attention....

However, in an interview with Bloomberg, Nadella is not calling for governments to clamp down on these companies. Instead, he believes governments are failing platforms by not create unilateral standards of operation. “Unilateral action by individual companies in democracies like ours is just not long-term stable—we do need to be able to have a framework of laws and norms. Depending on any one individual CEO in any one of these companies to make calls that are going to really help us maintain something as sacred and as important as our democracy, in the long run, is just no way that at least I, as a citizen, would advocate for....