Microsoft tried to quell the fear/embarrassment from its own internal employees by sending out this email: This first set of ads features Bill Gates and comedian Jerry Seinfeld. Think of these ads as an icebreaker to reintroduce Microsoft to viewers in a consumer context. Later this month, as the campaign moves into its next phase, we’ll go much deeper in telling the Windows story and celebrating what it can do for consumers at work, at play and on-the-go....

Windows 10 KB4507453 for Windows 10 1903 “May 2019 Update” This is the most recent version of Windows 10, and the rollout started several weeks ago. But you can manually install now. However, your best option is to wait until Microsoft rolls it out to you via Windows Update. The company is being more cautious with this feature update and giving it to new systems first, followed by older PCs....

Windows 10 Build 21370 One of the new features in this build includes an improvement to Bluetooth audio. “Over the past several months, we have been adding new features to make Bluetooth audio streaming easier, better, and more performant,” write Microsoft execs Amanda Langowksi and Brandon LeBlanc. There is now a unified audio endpoint as well as support for AAC audio files. Here is the list of changes and improvements in this release:...

In addition to being an animator, voice actor, filmmaker, screenwriter, and musician, Mike Judge is also a former physicist. While he isn’t calculating complex equations anymore, he continues to be at the helm of various iconic television shows and feature films. From the low brow comedy of Beavis and Butt-Head to the high brow satire of Silicon Valley, Mike Judge’s comedic range is vast. Judge broke into the animation world after his short film, Frog Baseball, aired on MTV’s show Liquid Television....

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A new piece of concept art shows what Spider-Man’s Iron Spider suit could have looked like in Avengers: Infinity War. After a deal was finally settled between Sony and Disney, Spider-Man was brought into the Marvel Cinematic Universe for the film Captain America: Civil War. Since this version of the character was widely accepted by fans, Tom Holland got to reprise the role for two Avengers movies and two solo Spider-Man films....

Meta explained on Thursday that the integration would “enable companies to share posts from Workplace with employees” over WhatsApp. Ujjwal Singh, Workplace’s head of product, said the integration with WhatsApp is designed to help bridge the gap between frontline employees and upper management. By bringing Workplace to WhatsApp, organizations will have an easier way to reach workforces, according to Meta. The company tied the news about the integration to a report about frontline workers....

Microsoft announced today during its Build conference that it will release a tool for developers to port their iOS apps directly to Windows 10 as “universal apps” that run on both phones and desktop computers. Developers will be able to feed their existing Objective-C code into a new software package and have it converted to work on the upcoming PC operating system. At least, that’s how Microsoft is pitching it, though the whole process is a bit more complex....

Microsoft is renaming its Windows Defender antivirus software to Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), and bringing it to macOS for the first time. While Macs are significantly less vulnerable to malware than Windows machines, they are not immune. Examples include fake Flash Player installers and cryptocurrency-stealing browser exploits and apps … Although macOS uses techniques like sandboxing and system-level checks before allowing apps to be installed from outside the Mac App Store, there are ways of circumventing these protections....

Microsoft offered users running Windows 7 or 8.1 the opportunity to upgrade for free within the first year of release. This guaranteed free upgrades to future revisions of Windows 10 throughout the life of the device. The OS focuses on software as a service, delivering updates and functionality as they become available; instead of the traditional three-year revisions, users were accustomed to in the past. Get Windows 10 App Finally Removed by Microsoft The GWX app became quite controversial during its availability....

Windows 10 19H1 Preview Build 18305 Microsoft continues to improve the Start menu and provide a more simplified layout. The new Start menu layout is for new devices, users, and clean installs. It includes a “simplified” layout with a “sleek one column design with reduced top-level tiles,” according to the post by Dona Sarkar and Brandon LeBlanc. Windows Sandbox is a welcome addition that allows you to run “sketchy” or “untrusted” apps in isolation – away from the rest of your system....

Windows 10 Redstone 5 Build 17754 Here is a look at the announced list of changes, improvements, and fixes for this latest Windows 10 Redstone 5 build: The build watermark at the lower right-hand corner of the desktop is no longer present in this build. This does not mean this is the final build as we are not done yet. We’re just now beginning the phase of checking in final code to prepare for the final release....

The Pax8 distributors have a good explainer about NCE on their site. Here’s Microsoft’s public-facing blog post about it. Earlier this fall, Microsoft officials said the NCE “per seat” model would be expanding to include Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Windows 365, and the Power Platform. NCE will be available to partners in January 2022 and phased in over time through mid-2022. Under the NCE terms, daily invoicing will become monthly, and a one-month subscription will be 20% more expensive than an annual subscription....

With the underlying concept popularized by Stadia and other game services, Mighty wants to stream an entire Chromium browser from the cloud. The effort emerged this week after two years of development with a tagline of “Make Chrome Faster.” Mighty wants to address the often-heard complaint that Chrome is slow. Over the past few releases, Google has been working to address this through various techniques and optimizations, but this new company’s approach is to stream “your browser from a powerful computer in the cloud....

Microsoft this week released Office 2007 Service Pack 2 for both their Office Products and Server products which they are advertising as providing new bug fixes and improving stability and performance. I can’t think of a reason why you wouldn’t want to go grab these installs immediately and get them installed however before you run out and grab them, you should keep a few things in mind. Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 The SP2 update appears to make significant changes in the PST and OST data structures improving performance (Disk IO) and efficiency....

This year, Microsoft promises to choose a side finally. A future Microsoft Word software update will default to single space after each period, while two spaces will be met with blue squiggly lines. In other words, two spacebar pushes will now be considered a mistake. Why Two Spaces? Back when IBM typewriters reigned, typists spaced twice between sentences to more clearly define an end of a sentence. Then, characters in a sentence used monospacing, which means they each took up the same amount of space on a page....

In regards to the update (KB3074482) released today, all the core products including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote have been upgraded to Version 15.12.3. The release notes aren’t terribly specific however here’s a breakdown of the fixes and improvements MS published: Outlook 2016 for MacClutterBug fixesWord 2016 for MacBug fixesExcel 2016 for MacBug fixesPowerPoint 2016 for MacAbility to modernize legacy movie formatsBug fixesOneNote 2016 for MacBullets and numbering galleriesShare to OneNoteBug fixes...

Microsoft Remote Desktop is a service that allows users to access and use their computer through another device, such as an iPhone or iPad. The iOS app, which had been abandoned for over a year, was updated this week with several new features, including support for recently released Apple devices and also Dark Mode compatibility on iOS 13. After pairing the computer with another device using the IP address, users can access the Windows Desktop and the entire file system with support for multi-touch controls and gestures, audio, microphone, and even cameras....

Microsoft officials said the current Partner Network is comprised of more than 400,000 global organizations around the world. Partners act as Microsoft’s primary salesforce even though Microsoft has and continues to compete with them on some fronts, especially when it comes to anything involving the largest customers. Microsoft is announcing today that it will be changing the name of its partner program in October 2022 from “Microsoft Partner Network” to the “Microsoft Cloud Partner Program....

Microsoft has silently updated its Office apps to iOS today with some interesting features for iPad users. While Microsoft Word now supports mouse and trackpad interaction, the Excel app finally works with multi-window mode. Microsoft announced these features in May last year, but the company has been releasing them in phases for each Office app. Word, which already supported multi-window mode, is now getting full support for mouse and trackpad on the iPad....