Microsoft Teams getting many new features these days and becoming one of the popular business communication platforms. It is also getting deep integration to the Windows 10 operating system. With this effort, Microsoft is now allowing you to change the desktop notification style of Microsoft Teams.
If you are not liking the default purple notification style of Microsoft Teams, here's how you can change it to native Windows 10 style notifications.
Azure has made tremendous growth in the last decade. This is due to the rapid cloud adoption by various enterprises and organizations around the world. When cloud expenses increase, it becomes difficult to track and understand the utilization of Azure Resources. Lack of proper documentation leads to many problems as mentioned. Nevertheless, preparing documentation itself turns into a tedious task due to the multi-tenant architecture of Azure.
Here comes the Turbo360 Azure Documentation Tool to solve challenges in documenting Azure Subscription. This article will give you an overview of what is Azure Documenter and its benefits.
Without any public announcements, Google often tests new features in the Google Chrome browser. Most of the time these features being introduced are available through hidden experimental flags. Some other time the company releases new features to a limited set of users to get early feedback.
Now, Google is working a different way to provide early access to the experimental features to users. This is called "Chrome Labs" in the latest Chrome Canary build.
Microsoft is now adding a new personalization feature to Microsoft Edge (Chromium) browser. The new feature will allow you to apply custom accent color to the browser window. As this feature is still under preview, it's hidden under an experimental flag. You must enable the feature to show up on the browser settings page.
With the latest Edge Canary build 89.0.731.0 or newer, you can turn ON the new accent themes feature. Here we will show you how to enable the feature and apply the accent color theme.
Microsoft releases Windows 10 build 21277 for the Insiders in the Dev Channel. With that, the company also announces the release of x64 emulation for ARM 64-bit devices. As a Windows Insider, you can try out it if you are on the Dev Channel.
Being the first release for ARM64 PCs, Microsoft also provided installation instructions. Continue reading to learn more about it.
Microsoft announces the launch of the Microsoft Teams Public Preview program. The announcement made to align it with the Microsoft 365 deployment channels. And also to make it clearer for existing insiders to choose the right experience for them. Microsoft said that the actual availability of the new program will be later this week.
Are you interested to be part of this public preview program for Microsoft Teams? Then continue reading to learn how you can join the Microsoft Teams public preview channel.
Microsoft releases a new build of Microsoft Edge (Chromium) for the Edge Insiders in the Dev channel. The latest build version 89.0.723.0 is the first Edge 89 build rolling out in this channel. The latest build includes some new features, better reliability improvements, and a list of bug fixes.
Though there are no major features introduced in this build, it added the ability to run an on-demand scan for leaked passwords and an option to have downloaded PDFs open in the default PDF reader are some minor key features that you would like in it.
Just like all other months, Microsoft detailed all the new features and improvements the company made to Microsoft Teams in the month of November 2020. It was a big update to Microsoft Teams that includes enhancements to the meeting experience, chat features, new devices, and more.
If you are eagerly waiting to learn what has been newly added and improved in the latest update of Microsoft Teams, continue reading the post further.
Earlier this week, Microsoft released PowerToys version 0.27 with a bunch of new improvements and said that the Video conferencing mute utility will soon come as an experimental feature before it hits the final release. Now the company released PowerToys pre-release version 0.28.0, which comes with all the features and fixes part of v0.27, plus the Video conference mute utility.
Those who are in the regular release channel will still have to wait a little longer until Microsoft integrates the utility in the coming weeks after fixing all the bugs and finalizing the offering.
Starting December 2020, Microsoft will start delivering the .NET Core updates on Windows via Microsoft Update (MU). This will benefit the .NET Core applications that are using the Framework Dependent Deployment model. The apps that use the Self-Contained Deployment model, won't have any effect.
If you don't want to use the Microsoft Update service to update the .NET Core runtimes in your system, you can easily turn that OFF. Continue reading further to know more about this process.
Microsoft is giving its effort to make Windows 10 better. The company released a new build (Windows 10 Insiders Preview Build 20270) from the FE_RELEASE branch to the Windows Insiders who are in the Dev Channel. In the latest build, Microsoft's digital assistant Cortana is gaining a new feature called "File skill".
With this update in place, you can now access your files by asking Cortana without directly navigating to those files. To know more about this feature and how to use Cortana to find and open your files, continue reading further.
Just a month ago Microsoft released PowerToys 0.25, and now the firm came with PowerToys 0.27, skipping version 0.26 for some higher priority work. Those who are waiting for the Video Conference Mute utility, have to wait a bit longer as it will be released as an experimental feature with version 0.28.
The latest version of PowerToys comes with a bunch of new improvements and fixes. For a complete list of feature changes, continue reading further.
Windows Experience Feature Packs are used to deliver new feature improvements to Windows 10 customers without releasing the bi-annual major feature updates. Currently, only a limited set of features are being developed which are independent of the OS releases.
Microsoft now releases Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.1070.0 to the Windows Insiders in the Beta channel which adds two improvements to users running Windows 10 version 20H2 build 19042.662 or higher.
The Refresh Rate of a display defines the number of times per second the image refreshes on the screen. It determines how smoothly the moving action appears on your screen. The higher the refresh rate, the higher the overall gaming experience and soother motion when you navigate through pages on the net.
The latest version of Windows 10 (October 2020 Update, version 20H2) now allows you to select the refresh rate of your display device. Here we will learn how to change the display refresh rate on your Windows 10 computer.
In October 2020, Microsoft took a new initiative to phase out Internet Explorer (IE11) for its new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser. Beginning November 2020, users navigating to sites using Internet Explorer are being redirected to the new Microsoft Edge if it detects incompatibility.
Initially, though the redirection is happening to a list of 1,156 websites, Microsoft is expanding the list to more number of sites. In case you are not happy and would like to disable the redirection, here's how you can prevent sites from being redirected to Microsoft Edge.
The optional inking and typing diagnostic data help Microsoft to improve the language recognition and suggestions capabilities of apps and services running on Windows 10. But, if you are seeing the error message "Your current Diagnostic data setting prevents inking and typing data from being sent to Microsoft", you need to resolve it first.
Here in this post, we will learn how to resolve the above-mentioned error and turn ON the optional inking and typing diagnostic data on Microsoft Windows 10.
Nowadays, the Microsoft Edge (Chromium) browser is becoming one of the most popular web browsers on Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android. The latest version of Microsoft Edge now allows you to quickly navigate to the recently viewed web page from the browser toolbar.
As the history button is by default hidden in the Microsoft Edge browser toolbar, you can quickly enable it by following the steps mentioned below.
Microsoft releases a new Windows 10 preview build 19042.662 to the Windows Insiders in the Beta and Release Preview channels running Windows 10 October 2020 Update. This update includes several bug fixes along with the USB 3.0 bug and the bug that causes a black screen for Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) users.
This update comes as a KB4586853 article, and will soon be released to the non-insiders as an optional update. Later, it will be forced as a mandatory update as part of the patch Tuesday.
Microsoft starts rolling out a new Windows 10 patch (KB4023057) to make your device compatible to receive the latest upgrade. The latest build adds reliability and security improvements to Windows Update Service components in consumer Windows 10, versions 1507, 1511, 1607, 1703, 1709, 1803, 1809, 1903, 1909, and 2004.
In the Microsoft support document, the company said that this patch will perform some operations in your system to prepare your device for the next Windows 10 updates. Here is a list of changes that the patch may perform on your system.
As per the release schedule, Microsoft started rolling out Microsoft Edge 87 (Chromium) to the stable release channel. Being a major build in the stable release channel, the latest version of Microsoft Edge offers a set of new features including automatic redirection for incompatible sites from Internet Explorer, shopping features, enterprise new tab page, and more.
If you are already using Microsoft Edge, it will be automatically upgraded to the latest version. If you are a business user, here you can find the direct links to download the latest offline installer of Microsoft Edge version 87.
