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Amazon Web Services announced earlier this month Amazon Comprehend for Intelligent Document Processing (IDP). This is a new natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning (ML) to uncover relationships and connections in various document types. Amazon Comprehend for IDP enables you to classify and extract entities from PDF documents, Microsoft Word files, and…

Microsoft has released a fix for a memory leak bug in LSASS that could have caused some domain controllers to automatically restart or stop working. The company first acknowledged the issue following the release of the November 2022 Patch Tuesday updates last month. Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) is a Windows process on an…

Microsoft has released new updates to improve the Quick Assist experience on Windows 10 and Windows 11. This release also addresses an issue that previously prevented some enterprise customers from installing the app from the Microsoft Store. Quick Assist is a remote access tool that allows users to connect two Windows 10 or Windows 11…

During its latest Ignite 2022 conference for IT pros in October, Microsoft announced the public preview for Azure Jumpstart HCIBox, as well as Azure Jumpstart ArcBox for DataOps. In this article, I’ll be explaining what these new products are for, and I’ll also guide you to the required resources to get you started with them….

Microsoft released its monthly “Patch Tuesday” updates for Windows 11 and Windows 10 yesterday. In December, the company released a total of 52 patches to fix vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, and other components.  There are also several notable changes on the quality and experience updates front. There are minor new features for both Windows 11…

Microsoft is getting ready to discontinue support for its Authenticator app on the Apple Watch in January 2023. The company quietly announced in a support document (via 9to5Mac) that an upcoming update will remove the Microsoft Authenticator companion app from watchOS. The Microsoft Authenticator companion app allows Apple Watch users to securely log into services…

Microsoft has released a new update to improve the Azure Active Directory-based user sign-in experience for enterprise customers. The latest release brings customization features that enable organizations to create a custom look and feel for Azure AD and Microsoft 365 applications. According to Microsoft, IT admins can configure company branding with a customized logo and…

GitHub has launched a business version of its GitHub Copilot AI-based coding assistant. The new GitHub Copilot for Business plan is now available for enterprise customers for $19 per user per month, and it comes with privacy features, organization-wide policy controls, and license management capabilities. Microsoft-owned GitHub teamed up with OpenAI to introduce its Copilot…

Microsoft has announced the acquisition of Lumenisity, a UK-based maker of hollow core fiber (HCF) cable for global networking infrastructure. The company plans to leverage the HCF technology to bolster its global cloud services infrastructure. Microsoft notes that Lumenisity was founded back in 2017. It’s basically a spin-off of the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) at…

With talk of a recession just around the corner, IT departments need to find ways to do more with less as budgets get tightened. As we move more towards automated technologies, tools designed to lessen the burden on manual operations, and artificial intelligence (A.I.), tech often available to IT departments in large enterprises, the organization…

Microsoft Edge is finally dropping support for Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1 in January 2023. Microsoft has announced in a blog post that Microsoft Edge and Webview2 Runtime version 109 will be the last release to support these older operating systems. Microsoft’s announcement is a reminder that it’s planning to end support for Windows 7…

Windows File Recovery is a free command-line utility for recovering deleted files in Windows. If you have lost files on your PC after accidentally deleting them, this article explains how to use Windows File Recovery to recover them in a couple of steps. Windows File Recovery (WFR) is a newer file restore utility Microsoft released…