Microsoft has announced the plans to shut down its social virtual reality platform AltspaceVR, which offered immersive social spaces for people to interact with friends and colleagues as 3D avatars. The tech giant released Windows 10 in July 2015 with an emphasis on feedback and rapid iteration.
Google Cloud has laid off people in strategy, recruiting, and go-to-market teams. Microsoft has also shut down AltspaceVR virtual reality-based social platform it acquired in 2017. Amazon will also shut down its charity donation programme "AmazonSmile".
Microsoft introduces support for multiple tabs in which users will be able to create, manage, and organise multiple files in a single Notepad window. Users could continue to work with files across multiple windows by dragging a tab out into its own window.
Microsoft has announced that it will cut 10,000 jobs from its engineering division as part of a strategy to invest in areas of long-term competitiveness for the company.
Economic slowdown has left a huge impact on the tech industry, as top companies including Amazon, Twitter, and Salesforce announce layoffs and cost-cutting measures in 2023
Microsoft: The job cuts would be the latest in the US technology industry, where firms including Amazon.com Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc. have announced downsizing exercises in response to sluggish demand and a gloomy outlook for the global economy.
Apple introduced a new free tool named 'Apple Business Connect' which will allow businesses of all sizes to customise the way their information appears across Apple applications like Maps, Messages, Wallet and Siri.
Microsoft Teams Premium is expected to be priced at USD 10 per user per month. However, the full pricing will be unveiled by next month, said the report. Also, the add-on will give businesses the choice to prevent users from recording meetings and copying text from the meeting chat for protection.
Microsoft has revealed some of it's best Xbox games of 2022 which have been adored by gamers and are in demand to have their hands-on to wrap up the year 2022.
Microsoft has launched real-time voice translation in Skype, which can now translate a person's voice in real-time using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to make the translated voice sound similar to the original speaker.
The real-time translations with natural voice will be made available in the group video calling feature and Telephony in the next months, said the blog post. The new translation feature uses AI to automatically detect the languages being spoken during a video call and translate them in real-time.
Microsoft's Summary of Changes to the license states: "Updated Acceptable Use Policy to clarify that mining cryptocurrency is prohibited without prior Microsoft approval." Within the license itself, there was hardly any more info, say the reports.
Microsoft has added a new feature named 'Portrait mode' for PowerPoint specifically designed for iPhone and iPad users. The feature has been added to enable iOS users to easily switch between portrait and landscape mode at times when they create new slides.
Microsoft rolled out a number of new features, which will help users to share files and photos easily to Windows 11 devices. To make sharing files more accessible, Microsoft has enhanced the Windows Share feature so that the users could share files with more discoverable devices directly.
Microsoft has updated the latest Windows 11 and brought in hand handful of new features which are user-friendly. Users can download the new update by right-clicking the taskbar which will display a link to the Task Manager.
The Outlook for Windows has been designed to provide a contemporary yet familiar Outlook experience for the users which will help the users to improvize their personal productivity and email organisation for users. The users can adjust the width of columns in the calendar and customise.
The Mozilla Firefox browser had a 3.16 per cent market share worldwide in August, Apple Safari and Microsoft Edge browsers have 18.78 per cent and 4.3 per cent market share, respectively. The web browsing market is dominated by Google Chrome, at 65.52 per cent market share, as per the report.
Microsoft mentioned that it has planned a phased rollout timed with the October optional non-security preview release for these features and then they will be made broadly available in the November 2022 security update release. Only the eligible users can choose to install the new update.
Microsoft is preparing the launch the new Surface Pro 9 and Surface Laptop 5, which are likely to be presented at a hardware event by the company around mid-October. Both the Surface laptops are likely to come with 12th Gen Intel CPUs, and will have up to 1 TB of storage and up to 16GB RAM.
Microsoft noted that the app could be adapted to work with other scenarios that require signing off, such as reviewing and approving code or working together on a document.
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