Most of us will have been told that we're just about to run out of storage space on our PC at some point. The question then becomes "what is using that space and where is it". Windows 11 now has a nifty feature that can help track down the largest files.
It's now almost a couple of years since we wrote our first in-depth article about the rise of AI and the impact it may have on 3aIT and our clients. So, how are things looking as we get stuck into 2025? Are any of these new tools actually useful?
As we have been flagging for some time, Microsoft will no longer be supporting their Windows 10 operating system from October. They've now announced that the other 365 apps (Word, Outlook etc) will be subject to the same fate. Support for these will be withdrawn on the same day.
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.
