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Microsoft announced yesterday that it has started rolling out the Automate tab to Excel for Windows and macOS. The latest update lets desktop users create and edit Office scripts to automate their repetitive spreadsheet tasks or workflows. Up until now, the Automate tab was only available for customers in Excel on the web. With this…

Microsoft Teams is getting a new update that brings co-organizer support for managing breakout rooms. The company has recently announced that this feature is rolling out in public preview to the Windows and macOS desktop apps. Just like meeting organizers, Microsoft Teams now allows co-organizers to create and manage Breakout Rooms. The feature also enables…

Microsoft has announced the release of PowerShell Crescendo 1.1.0-preview01. The latest version brings error-handling improvements, a new schema, argument value transformation support, a new way to bypass the output handler, and more. PowerShell Crescendo is a popular platform that helps to create PowerShell cmdlets for command line applications. It improves the original command-line experience with…

Microsoft has just published a roundup of new features added to its Teams collaboration service in November 2022. The list of recent updates includes scheduled messages, instant polls, new Teams devices, and management features. Here’s what you need to know: Scheduled messages First up, Microsoft introduced a new chat feature that allows desktop and mobile…

Microsoft Teams has recently introduced a new accessibility feature called “sign language view.” This release enables participants who are deaf or hard of hearing and their interpreters to prioritize each other during video calls and meetings. Up until now, Microsoft Teams’ organizers had to manually pin interpreters and enable live captions for each meeting. The…

Microsoft has launched a new Games for Work app that allows users to play casual games during Teams meetings. The company announced this morning that the new app is only available for Microsoft Teams enterprise and education customers. The Microsoft Casual Games team, a part of Xbox Game Studios, has built the new Games for…

Last month, Microsoft announced at its Ignite 2022 conference that a Microsoft 365 app would replace the existing Office app on Windows, mobile, and the web. A new message posted on the Microsoft 365 Admin Center yesterday indicates that the new Microsoft 365 web app has started rolling out this week, with Windows and mobile…

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…

After a whirlwind of news from the first annual Microsoft Power Platform Conference in September, we now have all the news from Microsoft Ignite 2022! We’ve got previews for creating Power Automate flows with natural language, creating complex Power Automate expressions by feeding it examples, the general availability of 2022 Release Wave 2 for Dynamics…

Microsoft is getting ready to release an update for the Outlook for Windows client that will let users store their Signature settings in the cloud. The company has been testing this feature with Office Insiders in the Beta channel for quite some time to incorporate user feedback before making it generally available for everyone. Microsoft…

Because it’s that time of the quarter, this special edition of Short Takes will focus exclusively on Microsoft’s latest quarterly earnings report.