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When Chromium Edge launched and eventually replaced legacy Edge as the default browser on Windows 10, it did so with a slick new logo. This logo stretched across platforms suggesting a single browser experience based on the same underpinning tech. That has not been the case with the mobile experience differing from the desktop. Microsoft is now working towards unifying the codebase to Microsoft Edge on Chromium, at least on Android....

And Windows 10 Default web browser Microsoft edge also receiving huge improvements such as “…” Menu and Settings page has been redesigned, new media autoplay control that allows control whether a site can autoplay videos on a per-site basis. Here this post we have collected Microsoft Edge Changes and Improvements on Windows 10 October 2018 update version 1809. Microsoft Edge improvements on Windows 10 1809 With Windows 10 October 2018 update, edge browser settings allow you to control whether sites can autoplay media, such as a video or other graphics....

The extension will now set users back $3 a month for continued usage. It’s not a hefty fee by any means, but it’s likely to put many off. The add-on’s main mission is to combat fake news, so limiting access feels somewhat counter-intuitive. That said, this development was largely inevitable. The company employs trained journalists, and that kind of help won’t come at all cheap. Admittedly, NewsGuard is introducing a number of new functionalities with its subscription, which include:...

Neal Browning, a 46-year-old Microsoft network engineer from Bothell, Washington joined a group of four healthy volunteers for the study. During the trial they will test the RNA COVID-19 vaccine that has been developed by NIH and biotech company Moderna Inc. Browning says he is just doing his part to help combat the spread of COVID-19. “Every parent wants their children to look up to them,” but “it’s other people, too....

By using remote back access attacks against Microsoft Exchange Server, threat actors can access email accounts. 30,000 organizations have already been impacted by the vulnerability. All the critical vulnerabilities are found in Exchange Server 2019, 2016, and 2013. Only Exchange Online has escaped the flaw. The vulnerabilities are as follows: CVE-2021-26855: CVSS 9.1 CVE-2021-26857: CVSS 7.8 CVE-2021-26858: CVSS 7.8 CVE-2021-27065: CVSS 7.8 Following the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) issuing a warning on Saturday, the Biden administration is also getting involved....

In terms of the region expansion, Azure Kubernetes Service is now available in Australia East, UK South, West US, West US 2, and North Europe. Through this expansion, AKS is now available in ten regions and on three continents. Microsoft talked up the expansion and revealed ten more regions will be added in the coming months: “With AKS in all these regions, users from around the world, or with applications that span the world, can deploy and manage their production Kubernetes applications with the confidence that Azure’s engineers are providing constant monitoring, operations, and support for our customers’ fully managed Kubernetes clusters....

After a year of work, and a Windows release, the team has some clarity. In a developer series, Microsoft’s Aaron Gustafson explains his company’s interest in PWAs. For the unfamiliar, a PWA is a regular web page that can be used like a traditional or mobile application. They load like a regular page but can offer things like offline support, launching from the home screen, and push notifications. The UWP Crossover However, with UWP apps already offering such functionality, the use case on PC isn’t clear-cut....

As part of the December 2022 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft is deploying a Known Issue Rollback (KIR) for each of the affected Windows systems: KB5021255 on Windows 11 22H2 and KB5021234 on Windows 11 21H2 KB5021233 for Windows 10 And KB5021249 for Windows Server Announcement Microsoft has also updated its Windows Health Dashboard to reflect the changes made to fix the Direct Access connection issue: “Resolution: This issue was resolved in updates released December 13, 2022 ( KB5021233) and later....

For the unfamiliar, Flipgrid, formerly known as Vikdu, was acquired by Microsoft in 2018. Its goal is to craft a platform to accommodate both teachers and students in their learning process. As such, it looks to bring innovative new ways to learn to its customers. One such feature announced during the live event is an augmented reality system designed to bring student voices to the physical world. “Teachers and students can now create and print new FlipgridAR stickers for any response to place Flipgrid videos in augmented reality on everything, ‘stick’ student voice everywhere with FlipgridAR stickers, and use existing Flipgrid QR codes in schools around the world as they now work automatically with FlipgridAR,” explained Microsoft in a statement....

Speaking to The Information, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of retail and consumer goods, Shelly Bransten said the company is exploring possibilities. “It’s something we’re looking at very seriously because our customers are asking us for it.” Bransten says she has “a lot of respect” for Shopify. It you are unfamiliar with Shopify, it is an online e-commerce platform that offers over 600,000 online retailers service “including payments, marketing, shipping and customer engagement tools to simplify the process of running an online store for small merchants....

With this latest update, Microsoft is expanding on a recent major overhaul of the Yammer experience on mobile. As mentioned, a new conversation mode is available that includes new threading architecture. Microsoft says this allows interesting and important conversations to be highlighted more efficiently. Furthermore, Yammer has a new bubble UI that organizes conversation replies and a new “Read more” option. Microsoft says the new card-based design allows users to focus on the most important conversations....

1 Fixes2 RemoteFX vGPU Disabled This is the company’s next major Windows 10 release, which will arrive later this year. Windows 10 20H2 is previewing in the Beta channel, which recently replaced the Fast Ring of the Windows Insider Program. It is worth noting Windows 10 20H2 is the new version name for what was one previewing as Windows 10 version 1909. Microsoft decided to start naming Windows versions for their date cycle instead of year and month....

The release of .NET Core 3 follows it moving to Release Candidate status a week ago. If you’re unfamiliar with the latest version of Microsoft’s open source framework, it has a sea of changes. For example, C# 8.0 and F# 4.7 are part of the .NET Core experience now, which .NET Standard has been bumped to version 2.1. Elsewhere, .NET Core 3 comes with support for Windows Desktop apps via WinForms....

Developed by Stanford’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Willow Garage, ROS allows improved performance in robotics hardware. The framework is maintained by Open Robotics. Microsoft’s ROS integration for Windows 10 IoT it built from the ground up to enhance open source development of robotics solutions. Brian Gerkey, CEO of Open Robotics, said of the introduction: “We’re excited to add Windows IoT as a supported platform for ROS. The ROS developer community can now take advantage of a wide array features in Windows IoT, including hardware-accelerated machine learning, computer vision and cloud capabilities such as Azure Cognitive Services....

The New York City-based company announced it has employed Joseph Sirosh on its Twitter account this week. Compass says he will not become head of its engineering team and Chief Technology Officer. Microsoft is now seeking a new Chief Technology Officer of AI. The company has yet to name a successor to Sirosh or confirm if the new appointment will be made internally. Sirosh’s decision to leave Microsoft ends his five-and-a-half years with the company....

In a report, TechCrunch describes how Microsoft M12 led a recent $20 million round of funding into Space and Time. The investment division was joined by other investors including Foresight Ventures, HashKy, Framework Ventures, and SevenX Ventures. In an announcement for the funding, Space and Time CEO and co-founder Nate Holiday says the investment will help spur technology that will create “a world where smart contracts will operate the business logic of the world through advance automation....

We have covered some of those announcements already, but let’s start with Word. Microsoft has updated the Word Editor pane to be more helpful. The digital writing assistant now offer more information on spelling, grammar, and writing recommendations. This new ability replaces the Spelling & Grammar pane and is compatible with best practices for the visually impaired. Microsoft says the new Editor is only available to Office 365 Insider Program members at the moment....

The app epitomizes Microsoft’s Mobile First, Cloud First strategy. Indeed, Kaizala is mobile only and is designed as an enterprise focused solution and provides a secure platform for business chat. Kaizala provides a platform for organizations to set up large group communication and task management. Collaboration, communication, and organizing can all be done through a mobile, without a need for a desktop hub. Of course, Microsoft already has services with these kinds of features, like Skype and Teams....

AMD will work with Microsoft to create a new generation of devices that enhance the cloud gaming experience. The concept of gaming on the cloud could transform the industry as it would give users easier access. If you are unfamiliar with cloud gaming, it allows gamers to share resources from a central hub. A company would provide graphics card and processing power in the cloud. The upside to the concept would be gamers won’t need powerful PCs to play top tier games....

Before getting into whether that’s a good or bad thing (it’s definitely bad), let’s look at the details. A patent filed in February 2018 titled “COMPUTING DEVICES, REMOVABLE SUPPORT DEVICES, AND METHODS OF USE” shows Microsoft’s intentions. The Microsoft patent explains how a connector can be attached to the device through mechanical and magnetic connections. This attachment can be removed or used as a stand. Microsoft details the basic function of the patent: “A computing device having an interface surface and one or more attachment features oriented on the interface surface is described....