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Google has officially launched Chrome OS Flex, a free version of Chrome OS that can be installed on almost any PC and Mac. The company first began testing the new Chrome OS experience back in February, and it’s finally available for all schools, businesses, and consumers. Chrome OS Flex is a lightweight, user-friendly, and secure…

Depending on what part of the country you’re in, coping with power outages and having backup power may or may not play a big part in your disaster recovery plans. While it’s often overlooked, power is the one thing that all computing activities require, whether it is desktops, datacenters, or cloud computing. Backup power supplies…

Microsoft has announced that it’s bringing support for Apple M1/M2 processors in its Microsoft Teams app for macOS. The company recently updated its Microsoft 365 roadmap to indicate that the new Teams version is expected to be generally available in September. Currently, the Microsoft Teams desktop app runs as an Intel application on Apple Silicon…

Microsoft has launched a new Health dashboard in public preview for small or medium-sized organizations. The software giant says that the dashboard is designed to provide IT Pros a complete view of the health status of Microsoft 365 apps and services. The Microsoft 365 Health dashboard lets customers view insights about the service status, software…

Microsoft is set to backtrack on its decision to block Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros by default across all currently-supported Office apps. Indeed, the software giant has announced in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center that it is rolling back this change based on user feedback. Back in February, Microsoft unveiled its plans to turn…

Last week, Microsoft announced the release of the Windows Server vNext Insider build 25151. This new preview build of the Server OS comes with a couple of new features and changes, including support for the legacy Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) product and more. LAPS, which was previously available as a separate download, has now…

In this post, I’ll detail five essential principles for successful cloud adoption. Note that while I am biased towards Microsoft Azure, these essentials are the same for cloud projects targeting Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and so on. Cloud adoption experience I have had the opportunity to work with public and private sector clients…

The idle session timeout feature, which the company announced for its Microsoft 365 web apps back in March, is now generally available for customers. The new capability lets IT admins configure a policy to automatically sign out inactive employees from Microsoft 365 web apps. Previously, the idle session timeout setting was only available for Outlook…

Microsoft announced a big update for Teams on the web that’s aimed at small and medium businesses. The latest release brings some much-anticipated features that are already available in the desktop versions of Microsoft Teams. First of all, Microsoft has announced that custom backgrounds support is now available for all web users. Microsoft Teams first…

Microsoft has finally launched the first native ARM64 version of Visual Studio for Windows 11 devices. The Visual Studio 2022 17.3 Preview 2 release prioritizes the most popular workloads for developers who want to test their apps on Arm64 devices. Microsoft first unveiled its plans to launch an Arm native version of Visual Studio 2022…

Microsoft has announced that it’s expanding its Windows Customer Connection Program (WCCP) to IT admins. This WCCP program is designed to collect feedback and promote collaboration to build better products and services for customers. According to Microsoft, IT Pros will get exclusive access to the private previews of its existing and upcoming software products. Participants…

Microsoft Teams on Mac and iOS has finally added support for real-time noise suppression. The AI-powered tool first debuted on Windows 10 as an optional feature back in 2020, which allows the app to automatically suppress unwanted background noise during video calls and meetings. The noise suppression capability is enabled by default for all Mac…