Microsoft is now testing a new feature for Teams that will allow you to schedule Out-of-Office hours. Once you set up a message in Teams to let others know that you are on vacation, the status message will also sync with your Outlook calendar, your presence, and contact card information.

The feature is currently rolling out to the public preview channel for Microsoft Teams on the web and desktop. To know more about this feature and opt in to Microsoft Teams public preview program, continue reading further.

Microsoft has released a new build for the Chromium-powered Edge browser to the Edge insiders in the Dev channel. The new build 91.0.825.0 is based on Chromium 91 and has been marked as the first release of the Chromium 91 engine in the Dev channel.

The latest Microsoft Edge build 91.0.825.0 adds few new additions, minor reliability improvements, and a long list of fixes. The build also includes few known issues that you should know before upgrading to this build.

Etcher is the popular name used to refer to BalenaEtcher. BalenaEtcher is software whose source code is accessible freely and gives room for further modification and reallocation. Etcher is used for writing image files such as .img, .iso, and zipped folders creating USB flash drives that are bootable.

Before its existence, users experienced a hassle in writing images on detachable devices such as SD cards. Etcher can quickly burn an operating system into an SD card, for instance, thus getting rid of long and baffling procedures.

Recently Microsoft releases Visual Studio 2019 version 16.9, which brings a set of new .NET productivity features, improvements to the IDE, remote debugging improvements, and more. With this release, Microsoft also adds an AI-powered Visual Studio Search service.

This feature has been integrated into the shortcut CTRL + Q for intelligent Visual Studio feature searches. Continue reading further to know more about this feature.

Microsoft releases a new Office build 13906.20000 (version 2104). The latest preview build is now rolling out to the Office Insiders who are in the Windows Beta Channel. This build adds a new feature to PowerPoint, which will allow you to insert Flipgrid videos in slides.

This build also adds few notable fixes to Word and Excel. For the full changelog in Microsoft Office Insiders Preview Build 13906.20000, continue reading this post further.

During the Ignite 2021 conference, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2019 version 16.9 which came with several new features and improvements. Microsoft also released a Preview Build of the Visual Studio 2019 version 16.10 with some more improvements for the IDE.

One of these new features is the ability to remove unused binary references from the projects loaded in Microsoft Visual Studio 2019. Let's learn how this can be beneficial for you.

Microsoft releases a new Windows 10 Preview Build 21332 (RS_PRERELEASE) to the Windows Insiders who are in the Dev Channel. If you are performing a clean install, you will be surprised to see that it no longer bundles the 3D Viewer and Paint 3D apps with Windows.

Along with this change, the latest insiders build also adds few improvements and a list of fixes to Windows 10. For a detailed list of fixes and to learn about the new changes, continue reading further.

What started as a pipe dream between two teens quickly turned into reality—having their own business. Bill Gates and Paul Allen started Microsoft back in 1979 and have worked into turning it into the billion-dollar corporation it is today.

While Windows may be the most popular computer OS out there today, it continues to face particular challenges, namely challenges in the cybersecurity sector.

Microsoft releases a new Office build for Windows in the Beta Channel. The latest Office Insiders Beta build 13901.20036 (Version 2103) adds auto-saving and co-authoring features on sensitive encrypted documents. So you don't have to trade off productivity for security.

Apart from this new feature for Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents, Microsoft also released a set of fixes for Office applications. Here is the complete changelog.

As per the Microsoft Edge Release Roadmap, the company released a new major update to the Microsoft Edge Stable Release Channel. The new Microsoft Edge (Chromium) v89 comes with a startup boost feature, sleeping tabs, vertical tabs layout, PDF improvements, autofill of birth dates, a new menu to list extensions, and more.

You can now upgrade to Microsoft Edge 89 update for Windows 10 and macOS to experience the above new features and improvements. Corporates can download the Microsoft Edge 89 Offline Installer to push the update to all users.

Microsoft PowerToys is a set of utilities for advanced users to tune and streamline their Windows 10 experience with a set of new productivity features. A new update to PowerToys for Windows 10 is now available. The latest build version 0.33.1 adds a bunch of new features and fixes to PowerToys.

The company said that the goal of PowerToys 0.33 release cycle is to add some "critical new functionality" to the new user experience in addition to a plug-in manager for PowerToys Run.

At the moment when short videos are popular. Maybe you see all content on YouTube and Instagram every day, The creators all know the technicalities of editing videos and making them presentable as they seem? Well, in short, no. All of them are not very professionals who make videos, nor do they get the job done pretty quickly rather than a pro tool like Adobe Premiere Pro.

They all take advantage of some sort of easy editing tool from Google searched and friend recommendations. If you are a beginner and would like to get easy-friendly yet rich features of video editing tools, you can’t go wrong with MiniTool MovieMaker.

During the Ignite 2021 conference, Microsoft announced the availability of the fourth supported servicing baseline for Microsoft Visual Studio 2019. If you are one of the customers using the Enterprise or Professional edition of Visual Studio 2019 are encouraged to standardize by upgrading to the latest stable channel version.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.9 brings a set of .NET productivity features, improvements to the IDE, remote debugging, and more. To get the latest version of Visual Studio 2019, navigate to this page.

Microsoft recently published an updated roadmap for the PDF Reader experience in Microsoft Edge (Chromium) browser. The new update to the PDF Reader experience will offer better compatibility, reliability, and security improvements for you and your organization.

The company said that the most requested features are now available across Windows, Mac, and Linux users. Continue reading further to know more about the improvements coming on the way to PDF Reader in Microsoft Edge.

Making a memorable presentation that informs and entertains is always a challenge, even for the pros. Coming up with a solid PowerPoint presentation that satisfactorily addresses all aspects of your topic is never a walk in the park.

There are so many vital aspects one has to delve into to produce an award-winning presentation. An ideal presentation must incorporate the right quality images, visual aids, text, template backgrounds, among other crucial components.

TypeScript is an open-source programming language, which extends JavaScript to bring static types to modern JavaScript. TypeScript language is designed, developed, and maintained by Microsoft to provide developers the ability to develop JavaScript applications for both client-side and server-side (Node.js) execution.

Microsoft announces TypeScript 4.2, which adds some new features and enhancements. Here's everything that you would like to know about the new features which are part of this release.

It is important to note that marketing as a whole did not just begin, neither did it begin with video production. However, it is safe to assume that every marketer becomes satisfied when they reach a win-win stage between them and their customer. That is, in terms of budget, timeline, and the satisfaction derived from products used.

In addition to this, owing to the fact that uniqueness and originality are key factors to being outstanding amongst other marketers, animated video marketing thrives and should be considered as it waters the ground for these traits. It also has an edge over the setbacks one could encounter while working with live videos.

A new Paint 3D app was first introduced in Windows 10 with the Creators Update. The app was used to create 3D objects from 2D sketches or images. Along with this, Microsoft also added a new "3D Objects" folder in File Explorer which was not useful for most of the users.

Starting with Windows 10 build 21322, the company is going to hide this folder from File Explorer to reduce the clutter under "This PC". If you need, the company also shared the way to access this folder. Continue reading further to know more about this build.

Last month Microsoft released the Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.2020.0 that brought improved screen snipping experience. Now the company announced the release of a new Windows Feature Experience Pack. The latest update is now rolling out through the Windows Update. The Windows Insiders who are on the Beta Channel can grab this build.

With the latest Windows Feature Experience Pack version 120.2212.3030.0, Microsoft is now improving the reliability of the handwriting input panel. Continue reading further to know more about this new build.

Recently, Microsoft released a new Windows 10 preview build to the Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. The latest build 21318 from the RS_PRERELEASE branch adds a new feature to Windows 10 Clipboard. Microsoft said that the update is also been offered to ARM64 devices.

If you are a Windows Insider in the Dev Channel, check for the Windows Update. To know more about the feature, and its availability, continue reading this post further.

Last year, Microsoft confirmed that a new standalone version of Microsoft Office for both Windows and Mac will be released for the consumers in the second half of 2021. Now the company announced more about this upcoming commercial preview of Microsoft Office LTSC (Long Term Support Candidate) and said that it will bring Office and Windows into alignment in support of the same limited scenarios.

While Microsoft didn't yet detail all the changes to Office 2021, it did mention that Dark Mode will be supported and it will include accessibility improvements, capabilities like Dynamic Arrays & XLOOKUP in Excel, and performance improvements across all Office applications.

Microsoft announced the release of .NET 6 Preview 1 and shared what you can expect from the new release. The first preview on Microsoft .NET 6 includes a large set of new experiences and capabilities along with major improvements across all parts of .NET (desktop, mobile, and cloud apps).

.NET 6 has been tested with the latest version of Visual Studio, i.e. Visual Studio 2019 version 16.9 Preview 4 on desktop, and Visual Studio 2019 version 8.9 on Mac. Microsoft said that .NET 6 will go through multiple previews before it finally releases in November 2021.

During this COVID-19 pandemic, most of the students are having online classes. Thus they are regularly using the internet, and to make it a safer web for them, Microsoft announced a new "Kids Mode" functionality for its Chromium-powered Microsoft Edge browser.

Kids Mode will allow your kids to safely browse the internet based on an allowed list, do search safely on Bing, view kid-friendly content, lock switching back to default mode under a password, and all these functionalities without creating a new profile.

Microsoft finally releases the first preview build of Windows 10 version 21H1 (Spring 2021 Update). This comes after the official announcement of introducing the next feature update to Windows 10, version 21H1. As we informed you earlier, it is going to be a minor update and will be available through the enablement package.

The latest Windows 10 Preview Build 19043.844 (KB4601382) is now rolling out to the Beta Channel Windows Insiders via the "seeker" experience and includes the following new features. To grab the build navigate to Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update and click Download and install.