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28 votes
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Microsoft to end its Android apps on Windows 11 subsystem in 2025
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In major gaffe, hacked Microsoft test account was assigned admin privileges
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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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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
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)
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Microsoft’s Windows Hello fingerprint authentication has been bypassed
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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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Microsoft might want to be making Windows 12 a subscription OS, suggests leak
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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 -
38TB of data accidentally exposed by Microsoft AI researchers
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Today I learned this weird Windows keyboard shortcut opens LinkedIn
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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
43 votes -
Microsoft patents AI powered backpack, bristling with sensors
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Ugly numbers from Microsoft and ChatGPT reveal that AI demand is already shrinking
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Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron
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Windows Secure Time Seeding sometimes resets clocks months or years off the correct time
19 votes -
Windows could become cloud based in the future
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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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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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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.
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Windows 98 icons are great
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Google parent Alphabet tells workers to be wary of AI chatbots
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Microsoft launched Bing chatbot despite OpenAI warning it wasn’t ready
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Microsoft announces availability of replacement parts for Surface devices
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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
6 votes -
Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025
24 votes -
Microsoft’s Bing is an emotionally manipulative liar, and people love it
14 votes -
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."
29 votes -
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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Netflix will be next on Microsoft’s shopping list
9 votes -
The twisted life of Clippy
6 votes -
Free AI bot that provides the Excel formula for any problem
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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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Bliss - The story of Windows XP’s famous default wallpaper
4 votes -
EU companies issues formal complaint against Microsoft OneDrive Windows integration
10 votes -
Microsoft Edge’s new ‘buy now, pay later’ feature is the definition of bloatware
18 votes -
Windows 11 blocks Edge browser competitors from opening links
38 votes -
Windows 11: The Ars Technica review
26 votes