Rabia Noureen

GitHub announced yesterday that it’s bringing the AI-powered Copilot coding assistant to business customers. The pair programming tool has been available for individuals since June, and the new offering will help larger teams of developers to improve their speed and productivity. With this release, enterprise customers will be able to purchase and manage GitHub Copilot…

Zoom has announced the release of the beta version of its mail and calendar services. Zoom Mail and Zoom Calendar are baked into the Zoom desktop client, which eliminates the need to switch between different applications. “These new products work together with the communication and collaboration offerings already available within Zoom Meetings, Phone, Whiteboard, and…

Microsoft has announced that a new Teams Progressive Web App (PWA) is now available for Linux machines. The company says that the PWA brings support for desktop-like features and helps to bridge the gap between the Teams client available on Windows and Linux. In August, Microsoft announced its plans to retire the Teams desktop client…

A programmer has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI, claiming that their AI-powered coding assistant violates copyright laws. Lawyer and developer Matthew Butterick initiated the lawsuit on November 3 in the District Court of Northern California in San Francisco. Microsoft announced the general availability of GitHub Copilot in June 2022. GitHub Copilot is…

Microsoft has announced a new Webinars experience for its Teams collaboration service. The updated Webinars experience is based on the customers’ feedback, and it will begin rolling out to all Microsoft Teams users in late November. Microsoft Teams introduced support for interactive webinars for up to 1,000 attendees back in May 2021. The feature provides…

Microsoft claims that it has optimized the Microsoft Teams desktop app to reduce latency in key scenarios, such as switching between chats, channels, and activity feed. The company detailed in a blog post that these under-the-hood improvements are a result of an upgraded Teams framework introduced this month. According to Microsoft, the performance upgrades are…

Microsoft announced yesterday that it would deprecate the distribution list migration feature in the legacy Exchange admin center (EAC) in February 2023. The company recommends customers to use a manual conversion process to move distribution lists to Microsoft 365 Groups. Back in 2017, Microsoft introduced the distribution list migration feature to let organizations upgrade their…

Microsoft has released a new update for its PowerToys suite of tools. The version 0.64 of the app brings a new File Locksmith utility that helps to find the active process or app that’s preventing users from deleting files and folders on Windows PCs. The File Locksmith tool provides a list of processes (with details…

Microsoft is getting ready to block access to OneDrive and SharePoint Online from Internet Explorer (IE 11). The company recently posted a message in the Microsoft 365 admin center to inform customers that this change will begin rolling out in mid-January 2023. Last year, Microsoft 365 apps and services dropped support for Internet Explorer 11….

Last week, the OpenSSL team patched two high-severity security vulnerabilities in its open-source cryptography tool. Microsoft announced yesterday that organizations can use Defender Vulnerability Management to detect vulnerable devices in their organization and monitor their patching process to reduce security threats. OpenSSL is a popular cryptography library that provides open-source implementations of both SSL and…