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Microsoft has released yesterday the January Patch Tuesday updates for Windows 11 and Windows 10. Yesterday also marked the end of support for Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows RT 8.1. Microsoft had already ended support for Windows 7 back in January 2020, but the company is now sunsetting its Extended Security Updates program for…

Microsoft is finally ending support for Windows 7 Extended Security Updates (ESUs) and Windows 8.1. This means that the company will no longer provide software updates and technical assistance to PCs running legacy versions of Windows operating systems. Microsoft announced the end of mainstream support of Windows 7 in January 2020. However, the company introduced…

Microsoft has announced a handful of new features across Microsoft Teams, Viva, and other Microsoft 365 apps. The new solutions are designed to help retailers and frontline workers streamline operations, improve communication, and boost security for shared devices. First off, Microsoft has released new updates to improve the Walkie-Talkie feature in Microsoft Teams. The prompt…

Microsoft has announced the acquisition of Fungible, a start-up selling composable disaggregated infrastructure solutions for data centers. The company plans to use the Fungible technology and team to boost the Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure. Fungible launched its data processing unit (DPU) back in 2016 to enhance the efficiency of data-centric computations within server nodes in…

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is a software-defined infrastructure that virtualizes and packages all the components of a conventional data center including network, storage, and computing resources. Hyperconverged infrastructure platforms allow businesses to virtualize servers, storage, and underlying networks and implement a software-driven control of their IT environment. In this article, we’ll look at the top 5…

Microsoft is reportedly planning to integrate OpenAI’s ChatGPT technology into its Office applications. A new report from The Information suggests that the new AI-powered features will allow users to automatically generate text with natural language prompts in Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint. OpenAI first made its ChatGPT tool available for public testing back in November 2021….

Further fueling fears of a coming recession, Amazon has announced that it was laying off 18,000 of its employees. The 18,000 layoffs represent roughly 6 percent of Amazon’s workforce. Amazon, headquartered in Seattle, is the second largest employer in the US behind Walmart. The online retailer employs 1.5 million people globally. Most of the cuts…

Amazon Web Services announced yesterday that Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) can now encrypt all new objects by default. The company says that S3 can automatically apply server-side encryption (SSE-S3) for each new object without any performance degradation. Amazon Simple Storage Service (also known as Amazon S3) is a web-based cloud storage service. It’s…

Last month, Microsoft acknowledged that some Windows applications might experience problems while connecting to databases through ODBC (Open Database Connections). Now, the company has provided a workaround solution to address this problem on Windows 11 and Windows 10 PCs. Microsoft says that the OBDC SQL Server bug specifically affected users who installed the November Patch…

Autodesk Drive is a cloud storage platform that allows individuals and small teams to collaborate on design data in the cloud. In this article, we’ll detail how Autodesk Drive works and how to get started with the popular storage and collaboration tool. Autodesk Drive is available on the web, but there’s also an Autodesk Desktop…

Microsoft is set of end extended support for Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 in October 2023. The company is reminding customers that it will no longer provide software updates, security patches, and technical support after this date. It’s been more than four years since Microsoft announced the end of mainstream support for…

Happy new year, Power Platform Community!  As we all move into the new year, let’s take a look at the latest updates Microsoft announced for its Power Platform in December. We’ll be highlighting the ones we are most excited about in this article. Power BI Slicer Type The Power BI team has moved the Slicer…