Todd R. Weiss

Microsoft 365 enterprise users will now be able to buy new optional security and compliance packages to add deeper security and compliance features. The extra identity and threat protection services and the additional information protection and compliance packages will be available for purchase starting Feb. 1, according to a recent post by Ron Markezich, a […]

Microsoft’s MyAnalytics workplace activity tracking tool is now available to users of Office 365 or the Office 365 Enterprise and Business suites with Exchange Online after only being offered previously in high-end subscriptions or as an extra-cost option. MyAnalytics, which Microsoft refers to as a “fitness tracker for work,” aims to help users get a […]

Microsoft 365 users have gained several helpful new feature updates in December, including artificial intelligence capabilities in Word and PowerPoint that give users more ways of connecting with their audiences. Live captions and subtitles can now be added in PowerPoint to assist viewers who speak in other languages or who have hearing impairments, while acronym […]

Developers and users of Microsoft’s SharePoint web-based collaboration and document management platform can now choose from a wide range of additional new and updated SharePoint web parts that can be used to communicate information within businesses and to customers and partners. The latest web parts were announced in a Dec. 18 post by Mark Kashman, […]

Microsoft Visual Studio developers can now add a package of assorted, community-built extensions all at once to their Visual Studio development environments that can make it easier to create the specific extensions they need for their workflows. Known as the Extensibility Essentials 2019 pack, the nine extensions that are included so far can be installed […]

Microsoft Power BI users can now collaborate directly with Azure users using data stored in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 through new integration capabilities recently unveiled by Microsoft. The new capabilities were announced by Ben Sack, program manager for Power BI, in a recent post on the PowerBI Blog. “With this integration, business analysts and […]

Microsoft’s Skype video calling, web conferencing and chat application now has live captioning and subtitles to make it easier to use for users who are deaf, have hearing disabilities or who speak different languages. The new live captioning and subtitle capabilities will also arrive natively in Microsoft PowerPoint in early 2019, according to a recent […]

It’s been tougher to sell smartphones around the world over the last few years as markets became saturated and new phone innovations became fewer, but things should improve a bit in 2019 for smartphone vendors, according to a new report by research firm IDC. Single-digit global smartphone shipment increases are expected in 2019 and through […]

The first official wireless 5G carrier network deployments aren’t expected to go into wide use until 2020 across the United States, but for now AT&T is making 5G services available to a limited number of select business and consumer customers in parts of 12 U.S. cities using a special Netgear 5G hotspot device. The 5G […]

With faster 5G networks getting ready to go into operation in 2019, mobile telecommunications companies such as AT&T and Verizon are preparing for what they expect will be a groundswell of customers who are looking to upgrade their smartphones to take advantage of the performance boosts to come. With that in mind, both companies recently […]