It's now official! Microsoft announces the next version of the Windows operating system, "Windows 11". It will come with major changes in the UI. The leaked build of the OS already revealed many UI changes last week, but Microsoft kept many more surprises under the hood.

As it was expected, Microsoft officially confirmed that Windows 11 will comes as a free upgrade for all Windows 10 users. Microsoft also confirmed that it will be released later this year. For more information, continue reading further.

Microsoft is rolling out a new Microsoft Edge build to the Edge Insiders in the Canary Channel. The latest build introduces Efficiency Mode to Microsoft Edge that has been designed to extend the battery life of your system by reducing resource usage.

When your laptop enters its battery saver mode, efficiency mode becomes active. To know more about this feature, and learn how to enable or disable the Efficiency Mode in Microsoft Edge, continue reading further.

Visual Studio 2019 was first released on April 2, 2019, and since then it went through a couple of releases. The current stable version of Visual Studio is 16.10, whereas version 16.11 is still under preview release. Recently, Microsoft also released the first preview version of Visual Studio 2022 which will be 64-bit from now.

As the next major version is coming up later this year, Microsoft confirmed that Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11 will be the last and final release of Visual Studio 2019.

Last month Microsoft released Visual Studio 2019 version 16.10 and started releasing preview builds for Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11. The last stable release of Visual Studio 2019 was more focused on Git productivity improvements and it looks like the company is still focused on further improvements of Git integration.

Recently, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11; and in this build, we could see further improvements to Git Tooling. For a detailed list of improvements added in this build, continue reading further.

If you are an Office Insider, Microsoft released a new preview build 14210.20004 for Office suites (version 2107) in the Windows Beta Channel (Fast Ring). The latest Microsoft Office Insiders Preview Build adds a new feature to the Microsoft Outlook client.

This build also comes with a bug fix for Microsoft Word where comments were becoming read-only during collaborations. For more details about the new feature, continue reading next.

Microsoft Teams is getting another new feature in the coming days. According to the Microsoft 365 Roadmap (Feature ID: 81945), Every Microsoft Teams team is connected to a SharePoint team site. That means, once Microsoft rolls out this feature, Microsoft Teams will automatically create a new SharePoint Teams Site for you.

According to Microsoft, this feature will start rolling out for the Targeted release (select users and entire organization) beginning in late June and will be completed by early July. The standard release will begin in mid-July and will be completed by early August.

It's around two months when Microsoft first announced Visual Studio 2022 and said that the devenv.exe process will now come as 64-bit. Now, the company announced that the Visual Studio 2022 Preview is now available for the developers to test the software ahead of public release this summer.

If you are excited about the release of Visual Studio 2022, you can download the first preview build right now. For more information on Visual Studio 2022 Preview 1, its features, and download links continue reading this post further.

Microsoft to reveal what's next for Windows on June 24. While everyone was curious about what is coming next, a Chinese portal leaked that information along with a Windows 11 build 21996. The information that we know so far, Windows 11 is going to come with a new Taskbar and Start Menu layout, new icons, and more.

If you don't like the new Taskbar layout, Microsoft allows you to reset the position to the classic left-aligned. In this post, we will learn how you can change the Taskbar layout from the center position to the left position.

As we already know, Microsoft to reveal what's next for Windows on June 24. Though there exists no official announcement of what going to come next, there was a rumor that the next version of the so popular operating system will be named Windows 11.

Now, it seems like the rumor is going to be real. Yesterday there was a Windows 11 Build leaked online from a Chinese portal, and we got to know more about that build. Here's a quick look at Windows 11 that is expected to be released later this year.

Microsoft Teams is getting another new feature in June 2021, which will be known as "Chat Bubbles". According to the Microsoft 365 Roadmap (Feature ID: 65948), chats sent during a Teams meeting will surface on the screens of all meeting participants, making the chat more central to the conversation.

Microsoft said that the feature will be on by default, but if you find it distracting, can turn it off from the meetings menu by following the simple mentioned steps as below.