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Microsoft has offered nothing official on whether the job listings are for Microsoft 365 consumer edition. If you are unfamiliar with Microsoft 365, it is a bundle package of enterprise-facing Microsoft products. Since its launch in 2017, Microsoft has made plenty of changes to 365, including making it an integrated product and creating an Insider Program. “We’re running Microsoft 365 now as a product,” Microsoft said earlier this year. “We can do a lot of integration on the back end....

The leadership team of that project now works for Microsoft, including Muntaquim Chowdhury, Thomas Speier, Michael McIlvaine, and Wayne Smith. Design managers Michael Underkoffler and Ketan Patel have apparently joined Microsoft too, as well as a number of engineers. It gets stranger, though. Due to the incredible volume of former Qualcomm employees, Microsoft is hosting them in the same city, Raleigh, North Carolina. To make the transition even more painless, they’re even working out an building previously rented by Qualcomm....

First announced in 2018 and then released in 2019 as support for Windows 7 came to a close, App Assure was originally to bring Win7 apps up to speed on Windows 10. When Microsoft transitions from one OS to the next, in this case Windows 10 to 11, some apps are not compatible with the new software. App Assure is a compatibility assistance solution that allows developers to work directly with Microsoft engineers to solve issues with bugs and other compatibility problems....

Today, Microsoft is building on that functionality. Senior product manager of OneDrive Chris McNulty took to the blog today to outline some new changes. OneDrive and SharePoint Modern Document Libraries Changelog Though the update hasn’t prompted major visual changes, there’s quite a lot going on under the hood. The following changes should greatly enhance the functionality of the feature: Removing the 50MB limit for file copies: We’ve started rolling out support for larger file sizes, all the way up to 500MB....

One of the main changes is to MicrosoftML algorithms. They are now portable and available on Linux, Windows, and popular Hadoop versions, as well as SQL Server 2016. This combines with pre-trained cognitive models for image featurization and sentiment analysis, as well as GPU-accelerated DNNs. High-Performance Operationalization Microsoft has also made several tweaks to its platform to make it more suitable for Tier-1 one enterprises. The power of operationalization has been greatly enhanced by the following changes:...

However, some of the most talked about features are coming to Microsoft Notepad. The app has been a staple for quick editing since its release in 1985 and hasn’t had a major update in years. Build 17713 introduces some major improvements, including line and column numbers when word wrap is enabled. Notepad also supports wrap-around find and replace, and the window will now remember previously entered values and checkboxes. The find bar is also populated automatically when you have text selected and open the dialog....

We will get to the Xbox One dashboard changes, but the removal of Cortana is the big news year. It furthers the demise of the virtual assistant as a consumer fronted tool. It’s a situation that has been brewing for some time. Cortana was struggling to compete against alternatives such as Alexa. Microsoft decided to transform the service into productivity assistant. While that may be different/deeper integration in Windows 10, on Xbox One (a fully consumer-focused platform), Cortana’s demise seemed inevitable....

1 Windows App Controls2 .NET 5 Because of that lack of features, we can file .NET Core 3.1 as a minor update. However, it is worth your while because of the mentioned improvements and bug fixes. It is also necessary because .NET Core 3.1 is a long-term release that Microsoft will support for the next three years. You may remember .NET Core 3.0 will only be supported until March 2020. While the changelog is limited, there are some notable additions....

If you are unfamiliar with WebView, it is a tool that gives developers the ability to integrate web content into the applications. For example, dev’s can include sign-in pages or create full Progressive Web Apps (PWAs). WebView2 is powered by the Chromium engine that Microsoft also uses to power its Edge preview browser. At the moment, the new WebView is still limited to Windows 10, just like the Chromium Edge browser....

The service combines with Microsoft’s Azure IoT suite, which is a platform-as-a-service solution. Together, the two account for different use scenarios, with IoT suite focusing on control and IoT Central on simplicity. “It is designed to enable the rapid innovation, design, configuration, and integration of smart products with enterprise-grade systems and applications to reduce product manufacturers’ go-to-market cycle and increase the speed at which they can innovate so they can stay ahead of their competition and deliver smart products that delight their customers,” said a Microsoft spokesperson to ZDNet....

This is a direct copy of the media overlay tool in Windows 10. If you are unfamiliar with volume on the Windows platform, there are two features. The first is the traditional volume slider and the other is the media overlay. Windows 10 uses the media overlay to give users the ability to pause video content quickly. The overlay appears on the screen when media is playing and follows you around Windows 10....

As you may know, Chromium Edge is currently only available in preview. Testers can choose between three development branches: Canary Channel: updated daily and considered the most unstable Dev Channel: Updated roughly on a weekly schedule and boasts more stable features Beta Channel: the third channel to launch is update more sporadically (around every 6 weeks) and is close to the finalized vision of Chromium Edge Microsoft has not yet said when the full release of the new Edge experience will be officially launched....

However, a recent patent publication suggests Microsoft is working on a solution. The piece describes a pen with a touch-sensitive retention clip that would send data wirelessly to a PC or tablet. “In some cases, touch input on the display may not be the most convenient form of user interaction with a computing device,” it reads. “…In order to perform a scrolling operation with a stylus via touch input, a user may have to touch the stylus to a scroll bar that is visually presented on a touch-sensitive display....

Specifically, the Phone Link app will now be able to connect to the wi-fi hotspot on a phone instantly. Microsoft points out the feature is currently exclusive to Windows Insiders with Samsung smartphones running the South Korean company’s One UI 4.1.1 or higher. At its core, the feature allows a Windows 11 PC to access the hotspot of a mobile phone through Phone Link. This means connecting to the Wi-Fi/4G/5G of a phone will be more seamless....

Each year, the company conducts the MS Poll, an internal employee satisfaction survey. In this poll, Microsoft staff can offer their opinion on a wide range of work areas, such as work/life balance, compensation, benefits, and leadership. Microsoft has a good reputation as an employer, and it seems the MS Poll backs up that feeling. The survey shows employees are overwhelmingly positive about their work experience with Microsoft. Specifically under the category of “work group health” which includes inclusion, career development, and work/life balance....

“The Azure Orbital Space SDK was created to be able to run on any spacecraft and provide a secure hosting platform and application kit to create, deploy, and operate applications on-orbit. This “host platform” runs onboard the spacecraft including a containerized, scalable compute infrastructure with resource and schedule management capabilities.” Microsoft’s kit provides templates, documentation, and samples to help developers create their projects. There are also template applications that offer more automation across common workloads....

With its hardware focused event on the horizon (September 22), all eyes are on what devices Microsoft will launch and what changes will be made. It is widely expected the company will launch the Surface Pro 8, Surface Book 4, and Surface Duo 2, and maybe some surprises. All these devices are probably going to be incremental updates on the previous generation. I hope that is not true, especially for the Surface Duo 2 considering the first gen of the Android smartphone had aspects that need attention....

It was first presumed the application would not be fully available until Windows 10 20H1 next year. However, it now seems Microsoft is preparing the Cortana Beta app for Windows 10 19H2. It is worth noting the app requirements state it can only be downloaded by Windows Insiders running preview build 18362 or higher. As for Windows 10 19H2, Microsoft has still not started flighting full previews for this release....

According to Finish broadcaster YLE, the man contacted fifteen Microsoft support staff, but they failed to resolve his issue. He then claims to have spent significant time and money recovering files and buying parts, the update causing his CCTV network to fail. The unidentified man initially asked for €3,000, but the board settled on €1,100 after reviewing the claim. For its part, Microsoft says it gave the relevant free support to recover the system but doesn’t deny that the OS was downloaded without permission....

However, Microsoft says despite increasingly powerful collaboration software, remote work negatively impacts how people collaborate across an organization. A study from Microsoft Research titled “The effects of remote work on collaboration among information workers” shows there are problems with remote work. We have heard a lot about how remote work is the future and it has been used hand-in-hand with one of industries buzzwords… collaboration. However, the reality seems to be different from the perception....