Microsoft Teams is now one of the most popular platforms heavily used in several organizations. It offers employees to communicate with colleagues, transfer files, and stay connected within the teams. Though it is mainly focused to use within the organization, you can also communicate with people outside your organization.

In this post, we will learn how to enable your team to communicate with people (guests) outside your organization. The guests in Microsoft Teams will be covered by the same compliance and auditing protection.

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.