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ProtonMail on all the data that Outlook collects about your email
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The making of Pentiment
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German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice
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Microsoft to separate Teams and Office globally amid antitrust scrutiny, will cost $5.25/month standalone
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Microsoft, Rockstar, Epic, and others are being sued for using "addictive psychological features" in games like Minecraft, GTA 5, and Fortnite
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Rumor: Insider claims Xbox handheld under development
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Copilot can't stop emitting violent, sexual images, says Microsoft whistleblower
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Microsoft to end its Android apps on Windows 11 subsystem in 2025
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Microsoft Flight Simulator | Dune expansion launch trailer
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Microsoft to share details on bringing Xbox games to PlayStation next week / Microsoft has moved up an important Xbox business update to address fan concerns
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Microsoft Teams is/was down. What's your fallback?
Teams is down or was down for pretty much everyone I know (work context). Thinking in terms of business continuity, what is your fallback plan. Is your fallback a managed, enterprise class...
Teams is down or was down for pretty much everyone I know (work context).
Thinking in terms of business continuity, what is your fallback plan. Is your fallback a managed, enterprise class service?
Might get everyone internally to install Signal since it's end-to-end encrypted, has a desktop client and can handle file transfers. That's just off the cuff.
Thoughts?
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In major gaffe, hacked Microsoft test account was assigned admin privileges
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Teams bluetooth audio compatibility sucks. What options do I have?
Hey! So I used to be fairly warm to MS Teams but I utterly despise its call handling. I have three Bluetooth audio devices that I used regularly - a set of Edifier earbuds, my expensive Sony...
Hey! So I used to be fairly warm to MS Teams but I utterly despise its call handling. I have three Bluetooth audio devices that I used regularly - a set of Edifier earbuds, my expensive Sony WH-1000XM5 pair, my CX-5 audio, and my Bluebus that integrates into my old BMW's hands free system. All of these work perfectly fine when I call someone via regular-ass phone calls. When I use Teams, all hell breaks loose. The edifiers work perfectly fine, so I know Teams is QUITE capable of handling these all ok. My CX-5 system won't do microphone audio when Android Auto is connected, but works fine on Mazda's infotainment call handling. In my BMW it won't handle the microphone but plays audio. On my Sony pair of headphones, it works great... And then about every ten minutes it disconnects, consistently, so I can't use them.
In theme with the other ongoing thread, nothing gets my gears moving like tech not doing what I'm asking it to. Teams barely has any options on Android for audio, so there isn't much of anything to tweak. Does anyone have any ideas of where to start? Is there something similar to Windows solutions like Virtual Audio Cable which could set up a virtual BT device to pipe audio through and simulate it being something else for Teams? Thanks all!
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History of the Graphical User Interface (GUI): A wonderful curse
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The New York Times sues OpenAI, Microsoft over the use of its stories to train chatbots
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Just got a Microsoft Surface Pro 9, need help
It's been years since I've had to use a an actual computer for anything serious and I want to regain my literacy with them. The height of my computer usage was the Windows XP/Vista era. I got it...
It's been years since I've had to use a an actual computer for anything serious and I want to regain my literacy with them. The height of my computer usage was the Windows XP/Vista era. I got it because I wanted to throw myself into a couple of different programming/coding courses.
I chose the Surface Pro because of the detachable keyboard/stylus setup and the fact that I don't have a good way to set up a desktop computer. Also I've always fantasized about being able to do work in a coffee shop or in a comfy chair by a lake lol.
Can anyone share some tips/tricks that might be useful to me? Anything from hotkeys, task management related things, or just general quality of life things I should know about would be super helpful. I'm so used to smartphones being able to do everything and feel like I'm a little in over my head here. Thanks in advance.12 votes -
The invisible tech behemoth [Microsoft] (2021)
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Microsoft’s Windows Hello fingerprint authentication has been bypassed
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PowersHell and graph - setting SharePoint folder permissions help
Hello folks Recently we've been playing with Powershell and having to move on to graph to do all the fancy things we want to achieve. MS forced this when they suddenly decided the MSOnline module...
Hello folks
Recently we've been playing with Powershell and having to move on to graph to do all the fancy things we want to achieve. MS forced this when they suddenly decided the MSOnline module was retired and things stopped working.
We've built a great New Team with SharePoint and including folders script. One of the things we used to do with the PNP module is set folder permission on two of the folders in a new team, making them only accessible to Owners. How the devil does one achieve this with Graph?
Any pointers would be grand.
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Sam Altman will join Microsoft to lead a new advanced Al research team following his ouster from OpenAl, CEO Satya Nadella said
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Xbox's Phil Spencer considers PS5 and Nintendo Switch players part of the Xbox community
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Can Windows make the jump to ARM like Apple did?
I'm seeing a lot of news in my feed about Qualcomm chips approaching laptop performance, such as...
I'm seeing a lot of news in my feed about Qualcomm chips approaching laptop performance, such as
https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/24/qualcomm_x_elite/
Will this turn out any better than the last few times Microsoft tried to break away from Intel? Would you want such a laptop? Will it wake Intel out of its complacency?
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Xbox's new policy — say goodbye to unofficial accessories from November thanks to error '0x82d60002'
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The surprisingly subtle ways Microsoft Word has changed the way we use language
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Microsoft closes deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard
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Microsoft might want to be making Windows 12 a subscription OS, suggests leak
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Forza Motorsport
The new Forza Motorsport has released to the masses as of today, and has been available to those who paid extra for premium upgrades and the like for about a week. I got it via Xbox Gamepass and...
The new Forza Motorsport has released to the masses as of today, and has been available to those who paid extra for premium upgrades and the like for about a week. I got it via Xbox Gamepass and played about an hour of it this morning, and so far it feels like a nice return to form for the series, which hasn't seen a new non-Horizon edition since Forza Motorsport 7 in 2017.
That game had some baggage with the card system/gambling mechanics, and I'm glad to see none of that thus far in the new Forza Motorsport - which, you may have noticed, has dropped the number. There's a feeling that Microsoft/Turn 10 may be aiming to make this something of a long-term platform play rather than just another game in the series.
I'm enjoying it so far, and after playing Forza Horizon 4 and 5 a lot since FM7 came out, I'm glad to have the return to more traditional circuit racing, and absolutely do not miss the supremely annoying voiced characters from those games.
The thing I most immediately noticed upon playing the game (besides the graphics, which are a real showcase for the Xbox Series X or a sufficiently beefy PC) is the new upgrade/tuning system, which requires you to actually spend time driving a specific car in order to unlock the various upgrade parts for it. You earn car points for doing things like clean racing and fast lap times, which you can then spend on upgrade parts between races. The game keeps calling those CP, which makes me think that nobody at Turn 10 has spent any time on the internet. An unfortunate acronym...
I'm curious to know what everyone's opinion on this game is. I know a lot of the audience is turned off by the more sim-like/boring nature of the Forza Motorsport games versus the arcade fantasy for the Horizon games, but I'm very much on the FM side of that divide.
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The making of the Burger King games
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EU warns Elon Musk after Twitter found to have highest rate of disinformation followed by Facebook
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Microsoft Nintendo acquisition hopes revealed by leaked Xbox exec email
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Microsoft Cloud hiring to "implement global small modular reactor and microreactor" strategy to power data centers
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Microsoft leaked its own Xbox documents, court says
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This is Microsoft’s new disc-less Xbox Series X design with a new controller
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Microsoft documents leak new Bethesda games, including an Oblivion remaster
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MS Paint adds support for layers and PNG transparency
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Today I learned this weird Windows keyboard shortcut opens LinkedIn
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38TB of data accidentally exposed by Microsoft AI researchers
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Microsoft announces new Copilot Copyright Commitment for customers
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EU ‘gatekeeper’ list has five American and no European companies
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Microsoft patents AI powered backpack, bristling with sensors
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Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron
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Ugly numbers from Microsoft and ChatGPT reveal that AI demand is already shrinking
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Python in Excel: Combining the power of Python and the flexibility of Excel
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Microsoft to sell off Activision cloud gaming rights to Ubisoft in bid for UK approval
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Windows Secure Time Seeding sometimes resets clocks months or years off the correct time
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Windows could become cloud based in the future
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Introducing TypeChat
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Apple tests ‘Apple GPT,’ develops generative AI tools to catch OpenAI
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Microsoft lost its keys, and the US government got hacked
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Xbox Live Gold is becoming Xbox Game Pass Core starting September 14
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A quick look into Microsoft Offices's new default font
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Meet Microsoft Office’s new default font: Aptos
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US FTC appeals its loss to Microsoft in Activision Blizzard case
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Microsoft wins US FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard
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Microsoft’s Activision deal could face ‘new merger investigation,’ UK regulator warns
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Developers restore “retail” Xbox emulators after Microsoft crackdown
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How Microsoft's ruthless employee evaluation system annihilated team collaboration
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Antitrust case - Will the US Microsoft Activision merger go through?
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Sony’s confidential PlayStation secrets just spilled because of a Sharpie
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Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud
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Help with converting PDF to Excel and back to PDF?
I may be asking a dumb question or going about this wrong but I'm not sure what to do here. So right now, I receive an estimation from one company in a PDF. It has a bunch of fields such as...
I may be asking a dumb question or going about this wrong but I'm not sure what to do here.
So right now, I receive an estimation from one company in a PDF. It has a bunch of fields such as customer name, product, address, etc. Then I type that data and put it into Excel, where I add additional data that I have. From there I have a second PDF which has form fields that I fill with the data of the Excel spreadsheet.
My problem is with the first PDF that I get from this other company, unless I am doing something wrong I am unable to get that first PDF to show the data as fields. If I convert the first PDF into an Excel then the table data is very messy.
The amount of typing or copy and paste that it's not hard but it is time consuming. What is the best way for me to go about doing this? I've been Googling things but I'm not sure the right words of action I'm looking for.
I hope this all makes sense, but if not please ask questions and I'll do my best to try and clarify further.
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Solving chemistry problems through AI
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EVE Online: Add-in for Excel
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FTC: Xbox-exclusive Starfield is “powerful evidence” against Activision deal
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Windows 98 icons are great
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Microsoft to raise Xbox Game Pass and Xbox Series X prices
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Google parent Alphabet tells workers to be wary of AI chatbots
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Microsoft announces availability of replacement parts for Surface devices
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Microsoft has been temporarily restrained from buying Activision Blizzard, US judge rules
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Microsoft launched Bing chatbot despite OpenAI warning it wasn’t ready
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Microsoft launches Devicescript, a subset of typescript that compiles to bytecode. What do you think?
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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 | Announce trailer
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Windows 11's latest endearing mess contains rigorously enforced Britishisms
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US FTC will require Microsoft to pay $20 million over charges it illegally collected personal information from children without their parents’ consent
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Microsoft to pay $20 million FTC settlement over improperly storing Xbox account data for US kids
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Inside the making of Redfall, Xbox's latest misfire
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Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025
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Microsoft's $68.7bn (£55bn) deal to buy US video game company Activision Blizzard has been blocked in the UK by the Competition and Markets Authority
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Microsoft crackdown disables emulators downloaded to Xbox consoles
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People Make Games get their asses beat in Microsoft Excel eSports
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Microsoft’s Bing is an emotionally manipulative liar, and people love it
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The emotional resonance of Microsoft Flight Simulator
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AI-powered Bing Chat loses its mind when fed Ars Technica article / "It is a hoax that has been created by someone who wants to harm me or my service."
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Bing AI can't be trusted: Microsoft knowingly released a broken product for short-term hype
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Microsoft launches the new Bing, with ChatGPT built in
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Microsoft is laying off 10,000 employees
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Netflix will be next on Microsoft’s shopping list
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In which I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft… and give it to you
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The twisted life of Clippy
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Free AI bot that provides the Excel formula for any problem
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An experiment to test GitHub Copilot's legality
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Every new trailer from the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase 2022
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Microsoft trying to kill HDD boot drives by 2023: Report
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Microsoft to curb use of non-competes, drop NDAs from worker settlements, disclose salary ranges, launch civil rights audit
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My experience with Windows 10
I'm a longtime Linux user, and I haven't used Windows in a while aside from just launching games from Steam on my living room computer, but my new work laptop is Microsoft's flagship Surface Pro 4...
I'm a longtime Linux user, and I haven't used Windows in a while aside from just launching games from Steam on my living room computer, but my new work laptop is Microsoft's flagship Surface Pro 4 so I figured it'd be the best experience you can have on a Windows machine.
I got the laptop in yesterday, and here's the summary of my experience:
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I am required by IT to use Chrome. To install Chrome, I had to click through no fewer than three "Are you sure you don't want to use Microsoft's more secure, faster browser?" banners to do so.
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When I plug in my external monitor, by default, the two monitors were mirrored; when I went into display settings, it didn't show the external monitor until I closed and reopened the settings menu.
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I have an Apple Magic Touchpad 2, and I had some issues getting it set up on Ubuntu 20.04 when I initially got it. These problems are now solved on the latest version of Ubuntu, but I was expecting a nice contrast in a good plug-and-play experience on Windows. Instead, I had to install sketchy drivers from some random GitHub page to get it to work properly.
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I've had some minor annoyances with my audio interface (a Zoom R-22) not being set as the default when I want it to be on Ubuntu, and I was really looking forward to getting a smooth video calling experience with my nice mic and interface on Windows. Lo and behold, the R-22 audio input - the whole reason I have it - doesn't work at all, at least in the Zoom video calling app.
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On Ubuntu, I use QV4L2 to configure the framing, zoom, exposure, etc of my camera. It's a bit clunky, and I was looking forward to having a smooth experience with this on the premier business OS. Unfortunately, the camera on this laptop has extremely aggressive aperture priority mode enabled, and there is no first-party app to configure it! The documentation tells me to go to Settings -> Devices -> Camera but there is no such menu item. So, I just look either washed-out or ultra-dark in every video call.
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After running Windows Update and rebooting, I was greeted with a full-screen and quite annoying to exit tutorial for Microsoft Teams - an app I did not install, because my company uses Slack.
This in addition to some setup papercuts, but I think those were probably due to my corporate IT's process rather than Windows itself.
Is this common? Do people who use Windows just... put up with this kind of thing? Or am I having an exceptionally bad experience for some reason?
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Eve Online fans literally cheer Microsoft Excel features at annual Fanfest
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Microsoft is moving ahead with an Xbox Game Pass Family Plan
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Secrets of an Excel spreadsheet esports player
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Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion USD
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