Microsoft announced that the company is now rolling out an approval request app to Microsoft Teams. Once installed, you can quickly start an approval flow directly from the Microsoft Teams chat or a channel conversation. The other party will be notified for approval.

According to Microsoft, the "Approval Request" app will be automatically installed in Microsoft Teams, and by mid of this month it will be generally available to everyone.

Microsoft recently announced a new personalized Taskbar feature for Windows 10, called "News and Interests". The said feature is already available to Windows Insiders, who are on the Dev channel. Now the company announced some new improvements along with the Windows 10 preview build 21292.

To know what's new and improved in the latest Windows 10 Insiders Preview Build 21292 (RS_PRERELEASE branch), continue reading further.

Microsoft releases a new Office build for Windows in the Current (Preview) Channel. The latest Office version 2101 build 13628.20030 is now available to Office Insiders with two new changes for Microsoft Outlook client (Win32) and Microsoft Visio.

The latest version of the Outlook client adds an option to make all meetings online by default. Whereas Visio adds refreshed Azure stencils (shapes and icons). Here's the complete changelog for you.

Microsoft announces a brand new feature called "News and Interests" for Windows 10. The feature is now rolling out with Windows 10 Preview Build 21286. If you are a Windows Insider, and in the Dev Channel, you can upgrade your system to this build to have an early preview of the updated Taskbar.

As the feature is part of the Windows Shell Experience, you will have to restart the system after the update for the changes to take effect. To know more about the feature, continue reading next.

A new update of Microsoft Edge is now rolling out to the stable release channel. The latest Microsoft Edge now comes with the History and Open Tabs sync feature. In October 2020, this feature was first previewed to the Edge Insiders in the Canary build channel.

If you are a Microsoft Edge user, you can now easily access your open tabs and browsing history across all your devices. You won't require to manually share the links to access between devices.

Microsoft releases a new Office Preview Build 13617.20002 for Windows users. The latest build comes to the Office Insiders who have registered in the Beta channel. The focus of this build is to improve the overall experience of Microsoft Office applications by providing bug fixes.

According to the official changelog, the latest Office Insiders build 13617.20002 (version 2101) includes a list of fixes for Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook client.

Microsoft releases PowerToys version 0.29.0. The latest version of PowerToys includes several improvements and bug fixes for Color Picker, FancyZones, and PowerToys Run. Microsoft says that the focus of this release was to add stability, accessibility, localization, and quality improvements.

Due to the holiday season, PowerToys will get features such as FZ editor improvements and three new plug-ins for PowerToys Run in the next release. Continue reading to know what has been improved in PowerToys v0.29.0.

Microsoft Editor is an AI-based free tool to provide spelling and grammar support while writing in any editors to help you write confidently and communicate your message effectively, but you will get additional capabilities to access advanced grammar and style refinements if you have a subscription to Microsoft 365 (Office 365).

Recently, the Microsoft Editor gets a big update that adds the ability to view spelling, grammar, and other intelligent suggestions quickly. It also adds a dedicated and simplified view for a more contextual and accessible review experience.

Windows 10 version 21H1 is the next feature update coming on the way and is supposed to release in the first half of 2021. The new official documentation reveals that Windows 10 version 21H1 to receive a new feature that will get support for the TLS (Transport Layer Security) 1.3 protocol.

Though the next feature update of Windows 10 won't bring any major features, the inclusion of TLS 1.3 is going to give better and safer transport layer security to the end-user.

From a security point of view, it is always good to keep your computer system updated at regular intervals. But, it is often seen that the latest Windows 10 updates causing mid to critical issues to end-users. The same happened with the latest security release that affected Windows 10 version 2004 and 20H2.

Though the issue was caused to a limited set of users, resulting in a boot issue and an unusual BSOD, Microsoft now rolling out a fix that will resolve this issue caused by the chkdsk command.

Google Photos is getting another brand new feature called Cinematic Photos which will have the option to make a 3D-like impact on a portion of the pictures. When you open the Google Photos application, this component will be accessible in the memory section of the same.

Once you update the Google Photos app, the new Cinematic Photos will be visible in your latest highlights at the top of the photo grid.

Microsoft Teams getting many new features these days and becoming one of the popular business communication platforms. It is also getting deep integration to the Windows 10 operating system. With this effort, Microsoft is now allowing you to change the desktop notification style of Microsoft Teams.

If you are not liking the default purple notification style of Microsoft Teams, here's how you can change it to native Windows 10 style notifications.

Without any public announcements, Google often tests new features in the Google Chrome browser. Most of the time these features being introduced are available through hidden experimental flags. Some other time the company releases new features to a limited set of users to get early feedback.

Now, Google is working a different way to provide early access to the experimental features to users. This is called "Chrome Labs" in the latest Chrome Canary build.

Microsoft is now adding a new personalization feature to Microsoft Edge (Chromium) browser. The new feature will allow you to apply custom accent color to the browser window. As this feature is still under preview, it's hidden under an experimental flag. You must enable the feature to show up on the browser settings page.

With the latest Edge Canary build 89.0.731.0 or newer, you can turn ON the new accent themes feature. Here we will show you how to enable the feature and apply the accent color theme.

Microsoft releases Windows 10 build 21277 for the Insiders in the Dev Channel. With that, the company also announces the release of x64 emulation for ARM 64-bit devices. As a Windows Insider, you can try out it if you are on the Dev Channel.

Being the first release for ARM64 PCs, Microsoft also provided installation instructions. Continue reading to learn more about it.

Microsoft announces the launch of the Microsoft Teams Public Preview program. The announcement made to align it with the Microsoft 365 deployment channels. And also to make it clearer for existing insiders to choose the right experience for them. Microsoft said that the actual availability of the new program will be later this week.

Are you interested to be part of this public preview program for Microsoft Teams? Then continue reading to learn how you can join the Microsoft Teams public preview channel.

Microsoft releases a new build of Microsoft Edge (Chromium) for the Edge Insiders in the Dev channel. The latest build version 89.0.723.0 is the first Edge 89 build rolling out in this channel. The latest build includes some new features, better reliability improvements, and a list of bug fixes.

Though there are no major features introduced in this build, it added the ability to run an on-demand scan for leaked passwords and an option to have downloaded PDFs open in the default PDF reader are some minor key features that you would like in it.

Just like all other months, Microsoft detailed all the new features and improvements the company made to Microsoft Teams in the month of November 2020. It was a big update to Microsoft Teams that includes enhancements to the meeting experience, chat features, new devices, and more.

If you are eagerly waiting to learn what has been newly added and improved in the latest update of Microsoft Teams, continue reading the post further.

Earlier this week, Microsoft released PowerToys version 0.27 with a bunch of new improvements and said that the Video conferencing mute utility will soon come as an experimental feature before it hits the final release. Now the company released PowerToys pre-release version 0.28.0, which comes with all the features and fixes part of v0.27, plus the Video conference mute utility.

Those who are in the regular release channel will still have to wait a little longer until Microsoft integrates the utility in the coming weeks after fixing all the bugs and finalizing the offering.

Starting December 2020, Microsoft will start delivering the .NET Core updates on Windows via Microsoft Update (MU). This will benefit the .NET Core applications that are using the Framework Dependent Deployment model. The apps that use the Self-Contained Deployment model, won't have any effect.

If you don't want to use the Microsoft Update service to update the .NET Core runtimes in your system, you can easily turn that OFF. Continue reading further to know more about this process.