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In this article, you will learn how to edit the Windows 11 hosts file.  The Windows 11 hosts file is an essential tool that allows you to override DNS settings. There are several easy ways that you can edit the file, and in this article, I will take you through each method step-by-step. In the…

Microsoft has announced its plans to launch a new Microsoft 365 Basic tier later this month. The affordable plan costs $1.99 per month (or $19.99 per year), and includes 100GB of OneDrive cloud storage as well as an ad-free experience in the Outlook web app, with additional security features to follow later this year. Microsoft…

Last month, Microsoft launched a new Teams Premium plan in preview as an add-on for commercial customers. Now, the company has quietly announced that it’s moving some existing features available for Microsoft 365 subscribers to the costly Premium edition (via The Register). Microsoft first unveiled its Teams Premium add-on at its Ignite 2022 conference in…

Microsoft has released yesterday the January 2023 Security Updates (SUs) for all supported versions of the Exchange Server. The latest updates aim to address critical security vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to gain system privileges in Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019. Microsoft also highlighted that the January 2023 updates for Exchange Server should improve…

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…