You don't have to have a memory that goes back that far to remember when most of us were buying new phones every couple of years or so. That hasn't been the case for a while, and it's not just phones. What's changed, and what are manufacturers doing to try and get us to splash the cash now?
While many of the features in Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet software involve maths to some degree or another, one handy feature you may not know about is the ability to create a column that includes custom text combined with data from cells in your file.
As we have highlighted before, and will no doubt highlight again, support for Microsoft's aging Windows 10 operating system ends in October. In preparation for this, Microsoft have now outlined pricing for optional "extended" support beyond this date.
Microsoft have been quietly making significant to the Windows screenshot app for a while now. Most recently, they've added the ability to record a portion of your screen as a video file, and the ability to copy text straight out of images. They now going to add another clever string to its bow.
In an effort to improve the reliability of the results it returns, Google is experimenting with displaying a Twitter-like blue tick next to company websites has determined are genuine. A sound idea in theory, although it remains to be seen if the full implicattions of this have been considered.
A couple of months ago, in our article about Microsoft's plan to encrypt all new Windows PC by default starting with the latest feature update, we promised we'd create a guide on determining whether your machine is encrypted and how to find the recovery key that it's critical you keep a note of. So here it is!
Although Microsoft would prefer you forget that a permanently licenced version of Office exists in favour of an ongoing 365 subscription, the 2024 edition of the somewhat stripped-down suite is sneaking out now.
Having completed our HowTo series on how well Copilot currently integrates with each of the main Microsoft 365 apps (Outlook, Word etc), we thought it might be worth a roundup, analysing what we found, and asking whether it's currently worth the subscription?
In the last of our Microsoft 365 Copilot specific guides for now, we will take a look at what the new AI tools bring to the venerable email app Outlook. Could it start writing all your emails for you? Maybe...
Microsoft have had a data encryption service called Bitlocker for some time. Historically, this has allowed any users of the Pro version of Windows to encrypt all their data if they opt in. Once the next Windows feature update is released, this will be available to all, and will be the default for new installs.
