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Jacob Roach / Digital Trends I don’t use OneDrive, but Microsoft is hellbent on making sure I do. When you set up a new PC, OneDrive automatically starts syncing files based on the Microsoft account you sign in with. This isn’t normally a problem, but if you’re a PC gamer who switches devices often, it can cause quite a headache. It’s not an impossible problem to overcome, and you can always turn OneDrive off. But as someone who bounces around PCs often, I wish that Microsoft’s cloud storage service was opt-in…

Cloud storage platforms are a great way to store and safeguard important files and folders, and Microsoft OneDrive is one of the best platforms for the job. Offering numerous ways to back up Windows and Microsoft 365 content, the OneDrive suite is available for Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, Kindle, and Xbox One, so you definitely won’t have to worry about compatibility. If OneDrive sounds like a backup tool you’re interested in using, you might be curious as to how you’ll go about syncing files and folders to…

As someone with a tech-related job, I’m regularly bombarded with questions about the best smartphones, why emails might have suddenly stopped showing up, and how to back up photos and videos. There’s another common question I hear a lot as well: How do I use Microsoft Office for free?Netflix Passwords, ChatGPT Can’t Detect AI, and No More CoTweets | Editor PicksJudging by the frequency with which people ask me this, I’m assuming there’s still a sizeable chunk of the population that doesn’t know that you can use…

uses AI to help you analyze and work with files in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Microsoft Teams, and other apps in the suite. You can chat with Copilot to ask questions and submit requests about your files. But a subscription costs $30 per month.In contrast, Microsoft's Copilot Pro plan can help you write and edit text, summarize documents in Word, generate formulas and analyze data in Excel, create presentations in PowerPoint, compose text in OneNote, and draft replies in Outlook. The Pro version doesn't include…

Mark Coppock / Digital Trends When I transitioned to all-Apple computing, I knew there would be challenges. I assumed there would be many days and weeks of awkwardness before I truly felt at home on my Mac (and iPad, iPhone, and Apple Watch). That’s why it surprised me when I discovered how smooth much of the transition actually was. Here’s everything I learned along the way, along with some tips on how I made it as seamless as possible. Retraining my muscle memory Both Windows and macOS have various features and…

Barracuda has issued a new Threat Spotlight report, warning of a recent rise in phishing attacks that exploit Adobe InDesign, a trusted document publishing system. According to the research, there has been a significant increase in emails carrying Adobe InDesign links, with almost a 30-fold increase since October. The daily count has jumped from around 75 to around 2,000 per day. Alarmingly, nearly one in 10 (9%) of these emails contain active phishing links, while a further 20% include removed content.Many phishing links…

All good things must come to an end, and a decade after its first release, Windows 10 will finally be sent to a farm upstate. It had a good run, though Microsoft plans to keep dropping security updates after the OS’ demise on Oct. 14, 2025. Just be aware that the tech giant will force you to dip into your wallet to keep accessing security fixes and small bug hunts.“Even AI Rappers are Harassed by Police” | AI UnlockedThat date is two years in the future, but Microsoft explained more of its plans in a Tuesday blog post.…

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…

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…

Earlier this month, a group known as Anonymous Sudan took credit for a service outage that disrupted access to Outlook, OneDrive and a handful of other Microsoft online services. After initially sharing little information about the incident, the company confirmed late Friday it had been the target of a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks. In a spotted by the (via ), Microsoft said the attacks “temporarily impacted” the availability of some services, adding they were primarily designed to generate “publicity”…