General Microsoft News

January 2023 update for Microsoft Excel brings many new features to the app. The new update brings release of PivotTable show details to Excel for the web and the ability to automate your tasks with the Power Automate tab in Excel for Windows and...

PowerToys is an official Tool by Microsoft that adds new utilities and experiences to Windows targeting power users. Now, the tool has been updated to Release v0.56.1. The update brings new features, multiple fixes and improvements. Coming to changes and new features, the highlights include...

Microsoft has collaborated with Pantone to use  "PANTONE Color of the Year" for creating themes/wallpapers for its products. This color of the year is named "PANTONE 17–3938 Very Peri" and defined as a dynamic periwinkle blue hue with a violet-red undertone. This month, the PANTONE Color...

Microsoft has today announced autofill support for addresses and payment info in Microsoft Authenticator. This support is enabled using Microsoft account making Microsoft Authenticator as the default autofill provider. For enabling the autofill support for addresses and payment info one needs to go to the...

Microsoft may be working on yet another redesign of the Your Phone app. The app with redesigned UI has appeared in an image on Twitter. In another interesting piece of news, Microsoft may be bringing Windows voice pack downloads to Microsoft store. Coming to details...

Microsoft has liberalized its Apps store to become open to other 3rd party app stores and browsers. While, we already knew about Amazon app store, even Epic games is bringing its storefront apps to the Microsoft store. Because of Microsoft allowing third party browsers to...

Microsoft has announced a personalized news experience "Microsoft Start" today. This personalized news feed experience is available on Windows 11, Windows 10, Android, iOS and Web. To address this need, we’re introducing Microsoft Start. This personalized news feed and collection of informational content provides news...

Samsung just launched its latest foldable smartphones range in Galaxy Z Fold3 5G and Galaxy Z Flip3 5G. Apart from the form-factor and hardware specs, these two smartphones also feature software differentiation thanks to "expansion" of partnership between Microsoft and Samsung. Both Galaxy Z Fold3...

Microsoft may be planning to bring the Your Phone apps feature to unsupported Android smartphones soon. The feature is currently available for only select Samsung smartphones. As per a screenshot posted by ALumia on Twitter, Microsoft may be planning to bring the Your Phone apps...

Microsoft has acknowledged a new security vulnerability publicly known as "PrintNightmare" affecting Windows printer. The remote code execution vulnerability affects Windows Print Spooler. The company is currently investigating this vulnerability and has offered workaround for being protected from exploitation of this vulnerability. Microsoft has assigned...

Microsoft has today announced in a blog post that Internet Explorer 11 desktop app will be retired on June 15, 2022. The company has also pitched Microsoft Edge as the better replacement of Internet explorer. While the IE 11 will be retired in 2022,...

Two more new and interesting Microsoft Edge features have arrived on Windows 10. Microsoft Edge has added Windows 10 ClearType text rendering and new vertical Tabs options in the Canary channel. Windows 10 ClearType text rendering in Microsoft Edge: This feature allows rendering of text in...