You can now pop out multiple chats from Microsoft Teams into separate windows. Popped out chats can be resized and positioned to spread your communication across your desktop.
The global health crisis caused my football team's practices and season to be canceled. To continue coaching, we switched to virtual classroom sessions using Microsoft Teams.
Twitter's PWA is now showing a tweet scheduler, which was previously only in testing for some users. The feature has long been a part of TweetDeck, but it is now available to anyone using twitter.com or the Twitter progressive web apps, including from the Microsoft Store.
Today, Microsoft is announcing that the new Cortana experience, which is part of the Windows 10 May 2020 OS update, is now available. With the AI now decoupled from the OS, Microsoft sees the AI getting a significant new role within Microsoft 365, including Play My Emails for smartphones, and the new Cortana Briefing email feature. Here is what you need to know.
Adding custom backgrounds to a video call can help you look more professional or let you add some silliness to a call. Microsoft Teams has some built-in backgrounds that you can use, but you can also upload your own images if you know where to look.
Skype is the latest video calling app to add 3x3 grid support. You can now view up to nine participants at once on a video call. The same update also brings some other useful features, such as the ability to create moderated groups.
Microsoft purchased SwiftKey four years ago. Now, the app is called "Microsoft SwiftKey" on the Google Play Store. The same update also brings support for Emoji 12.
A new update is available for the Microsoft Edge Stable channel, and it brings a whole lot to the table. The highlight of this release is the addition of extension syncing, but there are a ton of other features to check out as well.
Samsung Magician is a companion app to the company's SSDs that helps its users optimize their drives for the best performance. Samsung is currently pushing out an important update, that while avoiding big new features will be required for support going forward.
Mozilla announced Firefox Reality for HoloLens 2 today. The Virtual and augmented reality browser will let HoloLens 2 users browse the web and experiment with augmented reality elements on HoloLens 2. This also marks the first Firefox Reality launch on the Microsoft Store.
Microsoft is putting a lot of weight behind progressive web apps (PWAs), and it offered a peek at some of the improvements it's making in a session at Build 2020. Overall, the company is looking to make some big changes that result in PWAs feeling much more like native apps on Windows and other platforms.
Microsoft Edge for Linux has been teased for a long time, and now we've seen our first glimpse of it. Microsoft showed off the browser just for a moment during Build 2020.
If you need to resize a group of images at once or you need to resize an image to a different resolution, Microsoft's PowerToys makes it easy. It integrates directly with the Windows 10 File Explorer and has several options for resizing images.
Microsoft's PowerToys now makes it easy to remap keys on your Windows 10 system. It also gained a Run launcher that allows you to search through apps and processes.
Fluid components allow people to work on contents like tables and charts outside of apps. They're open-source, will eventually work with third-party apps, and they're the next step of Microsoft's productivity vision.
Microsoft announced several improvements to Visual Studio Code today. The changes help developers collaborate in real-time and access code from anywhere.
Alongside a ton of other Microsoft 365 announcements at Build 2020, Microsoft announced Lists. Microsoft Lists is a new tool designed to help companies with Microsoft 365 do everything from track issues, manage inventory, build agendas, and much more.
A whole bunch of Microsoft Edge improvements debuted at Build 2020 today. One of the biggest is Pinterest integration, which is coming to Microsoft Edge to make building out your lists much easier if you're already a Pinterest user.
As part of its Microsoft 365 announcements at Build 2020, Microsoft took the wraps off of several enhancements to Microsoft Teams. One of the highlights of these new features is the official launch of the Bookings app into general availability.
Opera's gaming browser, Opera GX, just got a handful of handy new features with its latest update. The highlight is native Instagram, which lets you quickly get to your main feed, stories, and more. There's also a new workspaces feature, which lets you group tabs.