Brad Sams

Late last year, Microsoft announced that the company would be exclusively licensing the GPT-3 language model from OpenAI. And today at Build, the company has announced the first implementation of GPT-3 into one of its products, Power Apps. GPT-3 is one of the most advanced langue models in the world and Microsoft is looking to…

This week, Microsoft is hosting its annual developer conference called Build. For the second year in a row, the conference is virtual-only and you can watch the event online but for those looking for what’s new for Teams, here’s a breakdown of the announcements. Microsoft Teams’ growth exploded during 2020 thanks to the pandemic and…

When Satya Nadella took over as CEO at Microsoft, he stated that one of the company’s most valuable assets were its APIs. And when it comes to productivity, the Microsoft Graph API is where all the roads point towards when building out applications and experiences. At the company’s Build conference this week, the company announced…

The past couple of weeks have been filled with unease in the Windows community. With the end of Windows 10X before it even reached the market, the future is a bit uncertain while we wait for Microsoft to fully unveil the next big update to Windows 10 known as Sun Valley. But there is another…

The second half of 2021 is going to include a migration that few have ever experienced in the business world. After the majority of employees migrated from the office to the home, the reverse migration is going to happen soon as well. Today, Microsoft is painting the picture of the future of meetings. As boring…

As the world starts to slowly move from workers being mostly at home to migrating back to the office, new challenges are going to arise for IT Pros. From issuing new hardware, making sure all remote data is properly accessed, and possibly mass-software upgrades – we want to know the biggest challenges that are on…

A few weeks back, Microsoft announced the Surface Headphones 2+ that answered the nagging question – why aren’t Surface Headphones certified for Teams? Considering that the headphones are the company’s flagship audio device, you would think that they would be certified with the company’s own productivity software. But, as it turns out, and this will…

When it comes to browsers on Windows 10, there are currently three options technically available to users. You have Internet Explorer 11, legacy Edge, and the ‘new’ Edge. But starting in 2022, Internet Explorer 11 will be officially retired. You might be thinking that Internet Explorer 11 was already pushed out to sea as part…

A few weeks back, I scooped that Microsoft would not be bringing Windows 10X to market, and today, the company has confirmed my scoop. In a post announcing that Windows 10 20H1 was now available, the company provided an update on the future of the operating system. As expected, Windows 10X is not coming in…

It was more than a year ago that Microsoft announced its intentions to bring Teams functionality to the consumer. Starting today, several features are now generally available as the company hopes to persuade you to ditch whatever it is you are using today, for Teams. By enabling ‘personal’ features in Teams, Microsoft’s goal is to make…