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How Microsoft 365 excelled my American football team to back-to-back northern championships
By Sean Endicott published
365 FTW OneDrive, Excel, Clipchamp, and Microsoft Forms have been key to my American football team's success.

Do you need to buy all of Office or is Word enough?
By Cale Hunt published
A few words... Microsoft lets you buy standalone core Office apps like Word, but it's clear that the Microsoft 365 subscription service is the company's first priority. Here's what you need to know.

Windows 11's new Start menu sidebar for Phone Link is unnecessary and only adds more clutter
By Mauro Huculak published
Opinion Microsoft is building a new sidebar to show mobile devices alongside the Start menu, but I don't believe this is the correct design approach. Here's what I think about this feature.

The enormity of Microsoft's Windows Phone shut-down mistake is becoming increasingly clear in the AI era
By Jez Corden last updated
AI woes Microsoft has an Apple-shaped AI nightmare on its hands, as OpenAI realizes the limits of partnering with Microsoft.

Elon Musk calls Microsoft's controversial AI Recall a "Black Mirror episode" but NPUs will protect your privacy on Copilot+ PCs
By Kevin Okemwa published
RECALL THAT? Windows 11's new Recall feature allows apps to "travel back in time," and Microsoft says your privacy is safe with an NPU.

ARM64 and AI are driving a 'Great Reset' in the Windows PC industry, a transformation unlike any witnessed in the past three decades
By Daniel Rubino published
OPINION Microsoft's Copilot+ AI PCs result from a perfect storm of AI and Qualcomm's new processors, reshaping the entire Windows PC ecosystem. It's the biggest shift since Windows 95 and the rise of internet PCs.

Microsoft's quest for short-term $$$ is doing long-term damage to Windows, Surface, Xbox, and beyond
By Jez Corden published
Satya Microsoft has made some baffling decisions in recent years. From sucking the life out of Surface to putting ads in the Windows Start Menu to killing Xbox-exclusive games, what exactly is going on?

You know, the Xbox app for PC Game Pass on Windows 11 just got updated, and it's getting pretty good ...
By Jez Corden published
Zero to hero, almost Microsoft is turning a corner with their oft-maligned Xbox app for Windows 10 and Windows 11.

OPINION: These XREAL holographic glasses are amazing. XREAL would be even more amazing with a Windows Mixed Reality partnership.
By Jez Corden published
WMR 🙏 XREAL Windows Mixed Reality should come back from the dead.

This Excel trick I saw on Instagram will save me HOURS each month and make tracking attendance a breeze
By Sean Endicott published
Tracking data The beta version of Microsoft Excel supports a new checkbox feature that makes tracking data a breeze. A short Instagram video on the feature transformed how I track attendance for my sports team.
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