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Microsoft’s OneDrive cloud storage service is getting ready to introduce markup support, allowing users to draw and add notes to highlight specific parts of their images. The new markup feature will start rolling out to business customers later this month, ... Read more

Microsoft has released a new firmware update for its Surface Laptop Go devices. The new bits bring improvements for battery life, graphics stability, and more. For the owners of a Surface Laptop Go, the latest batch of firmware updates is ... Read more

Microsoft has released a minor update for PowerToys, its collection of utilities for power users looking to customize their Windows PCs. This release brings a few bug fixes that were "deemed important for stability." These issues include FancyZones crashes and ... Read more

Halo Infinite, the biggest Xbox exclusive of this new console generation, will be released in two days on Xbox and PC, and it’s undoubtedly going to be in a lot of gaming conversations this holiday season. The game already had ... Read more

Welcome back to our Windows news recap, where we go over the top stories of the past week in the world of Microsoft’s flagship operating system. Office for Windows makes new Windows 11-inspired UI available for all users A new ... Read more

Microsoft news recap is a weekly feature highlighting the top Microsoft news stories of the past week. Sit back, grab some coffee, and enjoy the read! Microsoft announces new Teams Essentials plan for small businesses A standalone Teams offering, designed ... Read more

Sony could be readying a new subscription service to compete with Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass, according to a new report from Bloomberg. The service, codenamed Spartacus, could be launching in Spring 2022 on PlayStation 5 and possibly the PlayStation 4, ... Read more

Microsoft has released another one of its "servicing pipeline" updates, this time for Windows Insider Dev Channel build 22509. The Cumulative Update, marked 22509.1011 (KB5008918) is mean to test the servicing pipeline, and does not include any new features or ... Read more

Microsoft is getting to update the profile card in Teams to make it a bit more useful. Indeed, the company is working on a new feature that will allow users to find out the local time of coworkers by checking ... Read more

The new Windows 11-inspired UI for Office for Windows that Microsoft has been testing with Office Insiders is now generally available. Windows 11 and Windows 10 users can now opt-in to test the visual refresh with its rounded corners, and ... Read more

Following the release of Microsoft Edge 96 on the Stable channel last month, the version 97 of the web browser has now made its way to the Beta channel. The main new feature in Microsoft Edge 97 is Citations, which ... Read more

Microsoft released the Windows 11 Insider build 22509 yesterday, and the release notes didn’t mention an important change regarding default apps. Just like Windows 10, Windows 11 uses Microsoft Edge as the default browser, but the new OS has made ... Read more

The new Shared chat feature in Teams that Microsoft announced at its Ignite conference last month is now available for desktop, web, and mobile users. The new feature brings Teams for work and Teams for consumers chat interoperability, and it ... Read more

Qualcomm and Razer unveiled yesterday the Snapdragon G3x handheld gaming developer kit, a Nintendo Switch-like device powered by Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon G3x Gen 1 gaming platform. The handheld device is designed to play Android games and access cloud gaming services ... Read more

Respawn today announced that they would immediately be discontinuing the sales of the first Titanfall video game. The title is also being removed from video game subscription services such as EA Play. While likely disappointing for fans of the franchise, ... Read more

Qualcomm has officially unveiled its new Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 and 7c+ Gen 3 SoCs today, which will bring 5G connectivity and advanced camera, audio, and AI capabilities to Windows on ARM PCs and Chromebooks. Both chips should contribute to ... Read more

During the unveiling of Microsoft's latest Surface devices back in September of this year, the company also took up an accessibility challenge by offering its new Surface Adaptive Kit. With all the air in the room taken up by a ... Read more

Now that we're nearing the end of the year and we've seen what most manufacturers are offering this holiday season, we thought we'd put together an early list of products to either save up for or gift that techy-creative person ... Read more

Microsoft released today the Windows 11 Insider build 22509 for testers in the Dev channel, and the new bits bring some welcome changes to the Start Menu, Taskbars, Notifications, and the Settings app. Starting with this build, Insider can now ... Read more

Microsoft has introduced today Microsoft Teams Essentials, a new standalone Teams offering designed for small businesses and organizations including retailers, restaurants, nonprofits, and more. Teams Essentials require no IT expertise, and it includes more features than the free version of .

Microsoft has released a new update for PowerToys that adds a presentation mode helper to highlight the mouse clicks for everyone looking at the screen. PowerToys version 0.51 also comes with a bunch of improvements for FancyZones, Color Picker, Image ... Read more

December should be a very exciting month for Xbox Game Pass subscribers. Microsoft has just revealed the new games that will join the Game Pass catalog between tomorrow, December 2 and December 14, and we already knew that Aliens: Fireteam ... Read more

Microsoft’s Larry Hryb revealed earlier today on Twitter that recorded Xbox game clips would soon be given unique URLs that would allow them to be shared more easily with people who don’t use the Xbox apps nor own an Xbox ... Read more

The official launch trailer for Halo Infinite’s single-player campaign just went live and it’s definitely worth watching if you’re a fan of the popular Xbox video game franchise. The trailer, which you can watch below, focuses entirely on Halo Infinite’s ... Read more

The Microsoft Edge browser’s built-in surfing video game updated this week and swapped out its retro beach setting for a wintery ski slope aesthetic. The browser game works pretty much the same as before but instead of guiding a retro ... Read more

Aliens: Fireteam Elite, the co-op third-person shooter set in the "Alien" universe is coming to Xbox Game Pass for Console and PC on December 14. The game will also gain support for crossplay between Xbox and Windows 10 players on ... Read more

Microsoft is rolling out an updated paint app to Dev Channel Windows Insiders. The update brings a set of changes and improvements, mainly centered on matching Windows 11 design elements. Of the changes, there's a new "Edit Color," "Resize and ... Read more

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella may have narrowly escaped the "tax the rich" mob with a clever series of stock divestments just ahead of the Thanksgiving weekend in the US. According to regulatory filings, Nadella sold 840,000 shares between November 22 ... Read more

It’s now been two weeks since the open beta of Halo Infinite’s free-to-play multiplayer mode launched on Xbox consoles and PC, and developer 343 Industries has just taken another important step to address the ongoing criticism regarding the game’s slow ... Read more

As is the case every month, Microsoft has published a roundup of all the new features added to its Teams collaboration platform in November. First of all, the company has just launched new Loop components in Teams chats to help ... Read more

Starting at $1,009.99/ on sale at $899.99 Microsoft's Surface Pro 8 has been on the market for a few months now and the overwhelming conversation surrounding the product has been about the price increase, and that's perhaps the best outcome ... Read more

Microsoft has just taken the wraps off its new Minesweeper-inspired Ugly Sweater, which will help you stay warm this holiday season with a cool sweater paying homage to a cult-classic Windows game. The Microsoft Minesweeper Ugly Sweater is now available ... Read more

Windows 11 is getting close to reaching a double-digit market share according to AdDuplex’s survey for the month of November. The company’s latest data based on 60,000 Windows 10 and Windows 11 PCs shows that 8.6% of them are now ... Read more

Microsoft today announced a new feature designed to improve the video quality of games streamed to devices via the company’s Xbox Cloud Gaming service. Named Clarity Boost, this new feature will officially be added to the Microsoft Edge web browser ... Read more

The Windows 11 PDF reader app, Xodo, updated to Version 5.0.25 today for all compatible devices including those running Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. This latest Xodo app update add the ability to play sound annotations and create new documents ... Read more

Microsoft’s OneDrive cloud storage service is getting a new feature that should make it easier to find and access important files and folders. Next month, OneDrive for Business will add a new Quick access menu that will bring support for ... Read more