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17 votes
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Academic authors 'shocked' after Taylor & Francis sells access to their research to Microsoft AI
42 votes -
CrowdStrike code update bricking Windows machines around the world
143 votes -
Microsoft laid off a DEI team, and its lead wrote an internal email blasting how DEI is 'no longer business critical'
37 votes -
Mitigating Skeleton Key, a new type of generative AI jailbreak technique
15 votes -
Microsoft says it's okay to steal content published on the web
16 votes -
Microsoft CEO of AI claims online content is 'freeware' [and can be used to train LLMs in the absence of a specific directives from the author against this]
43 votes -
The day AppGet died
40 votes -
Microsoft erases guide for switching to local Windows accounts
82 votes -
My Windows computer just doesn't feel like mine anymore
78 votes -
Microsoft shelves its underwater data center — Project Natick had fewer server failures compared to servers on land
20 votes -
Microsoft admits that maybe surveiling everything you do on your computer isn’t a brilliant idea
27 votes -
AMD officially confirms no more Windows 10 chipset driver and support for next gen Ryzen
26 votes -
Microsoft developer demos .NET on the NES — delivers .NES
9 votes -
Will Microsoft want to introduce a subscription fee to their Windows OS in the future?
Just had a chat with friends about the possibility and how it would likely be introduced. Paraphrased into the following; 2.99$/Month OEM installs have a 2 year license Upgrades are free for the...
Just had a chat with friends about the possibility and how it would likely be introduced.
Paraphrased into the following;
2.99$/Month
OEM installs have a 2 year license
Upgrades are free for the first year (from 11 to the new)
Comes with Office 365 and AI functionality to soften the blowWhat are your thoughts on this?
30 votes -
Cyber security: A pre-war reality check
34 votes -
Microsoft readies new AI model to compete with Google, OpenAI
8 votes -
Meta starts licensing headset OS in battle with Apple
13 votes -
ProtonMail on all the data that Outlook collects about your email
61 votes -
German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice
56 votes -
Microsoft to separate Teams and Office globally amid antitrust scrutiny, will cost $5.25/month standalone
50 votes -
Copilot can't stop emitting violent, sexual images, says Microsoft whistleblower
28 votes -
Microsoft to end its Android apps on Windows 11 subsystem in 2025
14 votes -
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?
21 votes -
In major gaffe, hacked Microsoft test account was assigned admin privileges
28 votes -
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!
19 votes -
History of the Graphical User Interface (GUI): A wonderful curse
7 votes -
The New York Times sues OpenAI, Microsoft over the use of its stories to train chatbots
62 votes -
The invisible tech behemoth [Microsoft] (2021)
8 votes -
Microsoft’s Windows Hello fingerprint authentication has been bypassed
41 votes -
Sam Altman will join Microsoft to lead a new advanced Al research team following his ouster from OpenAl, CEO Satya Nadella said
52 votes -
Microsoft might want to be making Windows 12 a subscription OS, suggests leak
74 votes -
EU warns Elon Musk after Twitter found to have highest rate of disinformation followed by Facebook
34 votes -
Microsoft Cloud hiring to "implement global small modular reactor and microreactor" strategy to power data centers
18 votes -
MS Paint adds support for layers and PNG transparency
63 votes -
Today I learned this weird Windows keyboard shortcut opens LinkedIn
43 votes -
38TB of data accidentally exposed by Microsoft AI researchers
14 votes -
Microsoft announces new Copilot Copyright Commitment for customers
19 votes -
EU ‘gatekeeper’ list has five American and no European companies
43 votes -
Microsoft patents AI powered backpack, bristling with sensors
7 votes -
Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron
98 votes -
Ugly numbers from Microsoft and ChatGPT reveal that AI demand is already shrinking
91 votes -
Windows Secure Time Seeding sometimes resets clocks months or years off the correct time
19 votes -
Windows could become cloud based in the future
16 votes -
Apple tests ‘Apple GPT,’ develops generative AI tools to catch OpenAI
17 votes -
Microsoft lost its keys, and the US government got hacked
25 votes -
How Microsoft's ruthless employee evaluation system annihilated team collaboration
66 votes -
Antitrust case - Will the US Microsoft Activision merger go through?
12 votes -
Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud
72 votes -
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.
12 votes