Of course, Windows 10 is a big platform with numerous connections that are intertwined beneath the surface. For example, when you first clean install the platform, what apps, services, and websites are already connected to Windows by default? Well Microsoft has this week answered the question. The company has published a blog detailing which services link to Windows directly after a clean install. For the most part, the platform is generally free from bloatware....

Specifically, the Redmond-based company says it will increase the number of black employees in the United States by 2025. Microsoft says OFCCP has now sent a letter saying the program of inclusion constitutes racial discrimination. Considering Microsoft has gone public with the letter, it seems the company firmly disagrees with OCCP’s stance. In a blog post, Microsoft says the letter was received a week ago and questioned the validity of its diversity goals....

According to Xbox’s Larry Hryb, existing clips older than 90 days will soon be deleted, while all new clips without a view will be removed after 30 days. Some consumers are very unhappy that Microsoft is making this choice for them, or worried about precious memories disappearing. However, it’s worth noting that the outrage surrounding this change is somewhat overstated. Naturally, this limit only applies to clips on Xbox Live....

Naturally, the feature makes use of Microsoft Translator and generally provides good results. It doesn’t quite have the accuracy of Google and supports fewer languages, but it’s a good alternative if you use Edge. Visiting a webpage will display a button asking if you’d like to translate. Accepting the prompt will quickly turn it into your native language, with a prompt to switch back. So far, not much of an advantage over Chrome, but Microsoft’s implementation actually remembers your preferences....

According to Microsoft, a new Money in Excel tool is now available in the United States. Furthermore, the Stock History feature we discussed last week will be available later this week. Let’s start with Money in Excel, a feature that provides access to financial information that is displayed in a chart or spreadsheet. When a user sets up the tool, they can receive “bank, credit card, investment and loan accounts....

Forms Pro was leaked back in mid-February and officially confirmed a week later. The enhanced app will be integrated across Dynamics 365, Office 365, and Microsoft Power, and come with the following basic functionality: “Develop customized, on-brand surveys with your company’s look and feel using AI-assisted suggested questions. Incorporate sophisticated survey functionality like advanced branching, skip logic, individualized survey links, and multilingual capabilities. Reach your audience with timely, mobile-optimized surveys distributed through email, QR codes, webpages, and apps....

That has caused controversy, mostly because of Microsoft’s strict enacting of these requirements. In fact, the company has made it clear devices without these features that update to Windows 11 will be locked out from feature updates and security patches. Microsoft is now going on the defensive and highlighting why VBS and TPM 2.0 are valuable to the Windows 11 platform. It is worth remembering both features also work on Windows 10, but Microsoft does not demand them for the now legacy platform....

“Team Xbox is looking for you to drive support on Xbox Live for game mods. You will have a unique opportunity to shape and bring to market a new set of services, tools and experiences allowing game developers to easily integrate mods into their games, communities of passionate fans to create and share awesome and engaging content for the games they love, while keeping everyone on the network safe from abusive content,” says the listing....

In fact, Microsoft has made Bing Search a potent alternative to Google. In its latest push, the company is beefing up the accuracy of the web crawler. Microsoft says the BingBot has been improved with a new algorithm that has been in development for 18 months. Fabrice Canel, principal program manager for Bing Webmaster Tools said the result is a bot with improved understanding of “which sites to crawl, how often and how many pages to fetch from each site....

Microsoft says the new service is designed to aid organizations in their digital transformations. According to the company, businesses can “start even smaller”, allowing them to manage digitization more easily. Artificial intelligence is not something new in Dynamics 365. Microsoft already leverages AI for high value, complex scenarios. For example, the service uses a virtual assistant as a customer service tool within Microsoft Support. Currently, Dynamics 365 for Talent is not the “targeted solution” that some organizations may need....

It seems Windows 11 2022 Update is not playing nicely with this driver and is causing Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) errors. Microsoft has confirmed the issue and says anybody affected will be unable to install Windows 11 22H2. Moreover, users with Windows 10 are also included in the block. Microsoft points out this issue affects all hardware regardless of the operating system. In its support document, Microsoft says the driver IntcAudioBus....

There is some interesting about the Windows 10 16257 SDK. Specifically, Microsoft usually releases an SDK when the next preview release is moving to the Slow Ring. This time, the release coincides with the newest Fast Ring release. As we reported last week, the most important feature of Windows 10 16257 is Eye Control. Born of Microsoft’s first hackathon, the feature helps users navigate Windows with just their gaze. Among 16257’s other features are improvements for Microsoft Edge and Windows Console improvements....

In an announcement on its Azure blog, Microsoft confirmed Azure Active Directory B2B now allows organizations to use other IDs, namely Google accounts. This is a substantial change as the company previously locked users to a Microsoft Account or Azure AD account. What’s interesting about this is Microsoft is not being crafty and making the Google sign-in process complicated. In fact, just a single sign-on process is in place. It is worth noting that the ability is currently in preview and additional back-end management will need to be conducted before implementing....

Microsoft says the screen would attach to the top and bottom of the device. its gine would be “rotationally secure”, and change the length of the device underneath while rotating to reduce stress on the screen. It further dives into how the hinge would work mechanically, describing its use of a reinforcing material, corrugated pattern, gears, cords, and bridge structures. Needless to say, this is a fairly complex piece of engineering and we don’t fully understand the details....

The app reached general availability in June 2016 and requires an active Office 365 work or school subscription to work. Microsoft Planner makes it easier for businesses to manage teamwork operations, allowing the creation of team-wide email notifications, project due dates, and visual dashboards. Here is the list of things you can do with Microsoft Planner: “Organize work visually: Each plan has its own board, where you can organize tasks into buckets....

Microsoft has offered nothing official on whether the job listings are for Microsoft 365 consumer edition. If you are unfamiliar with Microsoft 365, it is a bundle package of enterprise-facing Microsoft products. Since its launch in 2017, Microsoft has made plenty of changes to 365, including making it an integrated product and creating an Insider Program. “We’re running Microsoft 365 now as a product,” Microsoft said earlier this year. “We can do a lot of integration on the back end....

The leadership team of that project now works for Microsoft, including Muntaquim Chowdhury, Thomas Speier, Michael McIlvaine, and Wayne Smith. Design managers Michael Underkoffler and Ketan Patel have apparently joined Microsoft too, as well as a number of engineers. It gets stranger, though. Due to the incredible volume of former Qualcomm employees, Microsoft is hosting them in the same city, Raleigh, North Carolina. To make the transition even more painless, they’re even working out an building previously rented by Qualcomm....

First announced in 2018 and then released in 2019 as support for Windows 7 came to a close, App Assure was originally to bring Win7 apps up to speed on Windows 10. When Microsoft transitions from one OS to the next, in this case Windows 10 to 11, some apps are not compatible with the new software. App Assure is a compatibility assistance solution that allows developers to work directly with Microsoft engineers to solve issues with bugs and other compatibility problems....

Today, Microsoft is building on that functionality. Senior product manager of OneDrive Chris McNulty took to the blog today to outline some new changes. OneDrive and SharePoint Modern Document Libraries Changelog Though the update hasn’t prompted major visual changes, there’s quite a lot going on under the hood. The following changes should greatly enhance the functionality of the feature: Removing the 50MB limit for file copies: We’ve started rolling out support for larger file sizes, all the way up to 500MB....

One of the main changes is to MicrosoftML algorithms. They are now portable and available on Linux, Windows, and popular Hadoop versions, as well as SQL Server 2016. This combines with pre-trained cognitive models for image featurization and sentiment analysis, as well as GPU-accelerated DNNs. High-Performance Operationalization Microsoft has also made several tweaks to its platform to make it more suitable for Tier-1 one enterprises. The power of operationalization has been greatly enhanced by the following changes:...