On this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Microsoft’s upcoming special event on September 21, why AI could be a big part of it, and they also look back at an app that didn’t ship.
In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Microsoft’s financial results for the last quarter of its fiscal year 2023, and they take a closer look at the company’s Windows and Surface businesses.
Microsoft announced at its Inspire conference yesterday that it’s expanding its AI partnership with Meta to accelerate innovation in that field. Microsoft will be Meta’s preferred partner to distribute Llama 2, the company’s next-gen and open-source large language model (LLM) designed for commercial use. Over the past couple of months, the AI conversation has mostly…
Last Update: Jul 17, 2023
On-premises Active Directory domain-joined PCs have typically been managed with tools such as Group Policy. At larger scales, you may have Configuration Manager or third-party tools. The availability of Intune (part of Endpoint Manager) in Microsoft 365 subscriptions such as Business Premium and E3 has opened up an alternative. The benefit many are seeing over…
Last Update: Jul 05, 2023
If you are getting started with Microsoft 365 groups, here’s an introduction to how the tool works and how to setup a group.
Microsoft has been caught scanning for malware in password-protected zip files stored on SharePoint Online. Andrew Brandt, a security researcher who uses Microsoft’s cloud services to save copies of malware in password-protected zip files shared his surprise after Microsoft had flagged some of his files that had been uploaded into a SharePoint directory as malware. …
Last Update: May 05, 2023
Microsoft recently announced at Build 2020 that it is working on a native open-source package manager for Windows. Due to hit general availability in May 2021, Windows Package Manager is now accessible on GitHub and for Windows Insiders in preview. In this article, I will show you how to use Windows Package Manager (WPM) to…
Microsoft is adopting a new weather-themed taxonomy to describe threat actors across the world. Some nation-state actors such as Russia, North Korea, China, and Iran will be designated with a specific weather event in the new threat actor naming taxonomy, and the company will do the same for more specific threat actor groups. Microsoft currently…
Last Update: Apr 14, 2023
Here is the simple way to set an out of office message using Microsoft Teams.
Microsoft introduced yesterday its latest Surface Dock with Thunderbolt 4, which now uses a USB-C port to connect to Surface devices instead of Microsoft’s proprietary Surface Connect port. The Surface Thunderbolt 4 dock should be a good companion device for the latest Surface devices that also support Thunderbolt 4, and it’s also compatible with Windows…