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Microsoft Loop app: What it can do for you – harness the power of collaboration

In a workspace, the most common challenge an employee comes across is effective collaboration among team members in order to boost productivity. Both these factors are crucial in a workplace to carry out the tasks or projects to ensure company-wide growth. To overcome this challenge, Microsoft this year announced the co-creative Microsoft Loop app that focuses on team collaboration through shared workspaces and encourages team members to be productive and stay organized with the help of the tool. If you are looking for…

Best Microsoft Office Deals: Word, PowerPoint, Excel for $43

Microsoft Microsoft Office (and Microsoft 365) are still the standards for many businesses, schools, and colleges around the world. While the browser-based, and free, Google Docs and Google Sheets are starting to dig into the market share of these products, in the battle of Microsoft vs Google, Microsoft still holds the gold standard. While there is a Microsoft Word free trial, for most of the goodies we need to pay. And, that need for payment can be quite a drain, as often this is software we need to do work,…

Microsoft 365 browser extension support to end in 2024; Here’s what you need to know

Microsoft has announced that it will discontinue the support for the Microsoft 365 browser extension, a complimentary add-on accessible on browsers like Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome, facilitating users' access to Microsoft 365 apps and documents online. The extension, boasting over 6 million users on Google Chrome and installed by more than 4 million users on Edge, is set to be retired on January 15, 2024, and will be subsequently removed from web stores.In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced, "This extension…

This Microsoft 365 Family Amazon trick is one of my favorite Black Friday deals

I might be a longtime Mac user, but I still run Microsoft software on my devices. I’m a Microsoft 365 Family subscriber because I never cared enough to get better acquainted with the Office productivity alternatives from Google or Apple. But the word “family” is really the key here. Microsoft 365 Family lets me share access with up to 6 people. It’s not just Word, Excel, and PowerPoint that we all get but also up to 1TB of OneDrive cloud storage each. Since I renew the Microsoft 365 Family deal every year, I…

10 things to know from Microsoft Ignite 2023: Bing Chat rebrand, custom AI chips, more

Microsoft Ignite 2023 is the annual conference by the company focused on developers and IT professionals where the company hosts sessions for its developer community to come and experience the new technology Microsoft is working on. The two-day conference kick-started with a keynote session yesterday, November 15, where the company typically made several software and hardware announcements that are relevant for developers as well as consumers. This year, Microsoft has planned nearly 600 sessions for the developers to…

How to insert a checkbox in Word

If you have a to-do list you'd like to put together, you should know that you can use Microsoft Word to create one. In fact, you can even create lists in Word with checkboxes that can be checked electronically. And adding checkboxes to a Word document isn't as difficult as you might think. In this guide, we'll show you step by step how to insert a checkbox in Word. We'll first show you how to enable the checkbox feature and then how to insert one. Display the Developer tab to enable the checkbox feature (for…

Microsoft Can’t Stop Being Annoying About OneDrive

Image: Sam Rutherford / GizmodoUpdate: All the online backlash that Microsoft received finally worked. They got rid of the survey that users were forced to take every time they would quit the OneDrive app. They also remarked that it was just a test. In a statement that they gave to The Verge, it said, “Between Nov. 1 and 8, a small subset of consumer OneDrive users were presented with a dialog box when closing the OneDrive sync client, asking for feedback on the reason they chose to close the application. This type of

EU opens anti-trust probe into Microsoft over Teams

The European Commission on Thursday announced an antitrust probe into Microsoft bundling its Teams communication app with its popular Office suite, on concerns it could be cutting out competitors.The investigation, to see whether the US software giant is "abusing and defending its market position" through the practice, comes as computer users have massively adopted online virtual meetings since the coronavirus pandemic. "Remote communication and collaboration tools like Teams have become indispensable for many businesses…