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How to Design a Christmas Card in Microsoft Word
Quick Links Print Your Christmas Cards Are you fed up with sending the same uninspiring and generic Christmas cards every year? In Microsoft Word, you can create original and personalized designs to add that creative spark to your festive greetings. Here’s how. Microsoft Word offers many Christmas card templates. However, most of these require you to cut the page once…
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Data center water consumption is skyrocketing, but Microsoft thinks it has a solution – the company’s new closed-loop cooling system consumes zero water and could save millions of liters per year
Microsoft has revealed more information on its new data center design that promises to consume zero water for cooling purposes. In August, the firm unveiled the new design that leverages a chip-level liquid cooling solution that can provide precise temperature control without water evaporation. A new blog post authored by Steve Solomon, VP of datacenter infrastructure engineering at Microsoft, said…
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Microsoft 365 outage takes down Office web apps, admin center
Microsoft is investigating a widespread and ongoing Microsoft 365 outage impacting Office web apps and the Microsoft 365 admin center. Since this incident started hours ago, Downdetector has received user reports complaining about problems connecting to Outlook, OneDrive, and other Office 365 apps and services. Affected customers see “We’re experiencing a service outage. All of your open files have been…
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Is Microsoft Editor Reliable?
Key Takeaways Microsoft Editor catches most essential errors and helps with inclusiveness. It supports many languages and suggests ways to write more concisely. However, it can be glitchy, miss some glaring mistakes, and sometimes suggest illogical amendments. Many people rely on Microsoft’s AI-powered writing assistant, Microsoft Editor, to identify typos, spelling errors, and grammatical issues. It’s free in Word for…
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Why I Love Google Docs (And Won’t Ever Use Microsoft Word)
Key Takeaways Unlike Word, Docs doesn’t require installation, so you can start working on your documents instantly from any compatible device. Docs offers a better, cleaner interface over Word, which makes it easier to work with your files. You can share your Docs documents with ease, and even invite people to collaborate on your documents with you. Google Docs and…
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Microsoft expands Recall preview to Intel and AMD Copilot+ PCs
Microsoft is now testing its AI-powered Recall feature on AMD and Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs enrolled in the Windows 11 Insider program. The company started rolling out the first preview of Recall to Snapdragon Copilot+ PCs last month after two delays in June and October. First introduced in May, Recall is a Windows feature that captures screenshots of active windows every…
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Microsoft Surface rumors point to a big Copilot Plus refresh next year
Microsoft’s first Copilot AI-ready Surface laptop arrived earlier this year, and now Windows Central reports that the rest of the lineup is due for a refresh in 2025. According to the report, we can expect new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop computers — and we’ve already seen a possible prototype pop up in October — with Intel Lunar Lake chips, that will be…
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Microsoft moves to stop M365 Copilot from ‘oversharing’ data – Computerworld
This includes oversharing assessments for M365 Copilot in Data Security Posture Management (DPSM) for AI, which launched in public preview at Ignite. Accessible in the new Purview portal, the oversharing assessments help highlight data that could present a risk by scanning files for sensitive data and identifying repositories such as SharePoint sites where access permissions are applied too broadly. There are…
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Microsoft Ends Sale of Skype Numbers & Credits
Microsoft has stopped offering Skype Numbers and Credits. So now, users can no longer buy phone numbers or credits to make calls. This change was highlighted by a volunteer moderator on the Skype community forum who found they couldn’t buy credits. At first, it was considered a regional problem because the user had a Russian account but was in Brazil,…
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Microsoft ends Surface Studio 2 Plus production with no successor in sight
Microsoft is ending production of its Surface Studio 2 Plus all-in-one PC two years after introducing the latest model. Surface Studio 2 Plus stock started running out in recent weeks, and now Microsoft has confirmed to Windows Central that it’s no longer manufacturing the device. “Customers can continue to purchase Surface Studio 2 Plus through retailers and partners with stock”…
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