Brad Sams

Microsoft is rolling out an update for To Do that will make it a lot easier to use at work and at home.

Microsoft plans to match Zoom’s 7×7 calling but that is likely not enough for the tool.

Outlook for Windows is introducing an option to allow users to save some settings in the Microsoft 365 cloud.

This month there is lots of new stuff and I am not even sure what my favorite is. Outlook reading to me, Power Apps letting me see the world differently, SharePoint being everywhere and nowhere at the same time, a bonus tip, and more. How about instead of me writing something clever you just dive…

Microsoft’s Surface Book 3 represents the ‘best of the best’ of the Surface family. It has the most powerful CPU/GPU combo, it can be a tablet or a laptop, supports up to 32GB of RAM and is a machine designed for work. Technically, it’s designed for work and play, with both consumer-grade and professional-grade GPU…

Microsoft has announced today that Windows 10, version 2004 is now generally available

Around the globe, IT Pros are facing unprecedented challenges in their environments. From supporting hundreds, if not thousands, of newly-remote workers, handling a significant increase in VPN connections or trying to backup data that is outside the firewall – for many of us, we are in uncharted waters. At Petri, our mission is to create…

It’s not too often that you realize an application that you are using frequently is missing some basic functionality. Especially with Teams, an application that is used by more than 75 million people every single day. But that’s the case with the search inside of Teams. While you can search from the top of the app…

MSIX is a new installer technology for Windows that first appeared in Windows 10 version 1809 and it was later backported to Windows 10 versions 1709 and 1803. It replaces Windows Installer (MSI) and the APPX packaging format previously used for Store apps. MSIX works with all Win32, WPF, Windows Forms, and Universal Windows Platform…

One of the big feature updates coming to Teams that many have been waiting for is the ability to chat with Skype contacts inside the Teams application. Microsoft stated that this feature would be available by the end of April but that timeline has come and gone. The company has posted a new message to its admin center and…

If you read the headline and thought that this was some sort of an elaborate joke, this is not a drill. After years of developers asking Microsoft to build a package manager into Windows, those requests are finally being answered. Announced at Build 2020, the company is releasing a preview of the Windows Package Manager….

Microsoft has a dream, a dream that developers will build apps for all of its platforms with a single base of code. The company, for years, pitched the write once, run anywhere, idea to developers of Windows applications but the dream never materialized in a way that was widely adopted. The most notable attempt at…