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.

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.

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. 

Microsoft is getting close to finalising the list of new features being added to Windows 11. In the next couple of months or so, they will be releasing what's technically known as the "24H2" update. So what can we expect to find once we've installed it?

Microsoft will soon be making some security changes to their first party email accounts (Outlook, Hotmail and Live addresses). These changes may impact anyone that use a 3rd party app like Apple Mail or Thunderbird to view their email on these accounts, or old versions of Microsoft's own apps.

For people that use Windows especially, Microsoft's approach to Teams has been a bit of a mess. Windows comes preinstalled with Teams, but this version doesn't support work accounts. For that, you need to install a different app also called Teams. This is finally being resolved.

If you use Microsoft's Outlook email client with any regularity, you may well have noticed the "Try the new Outlook" toggle appear at the top of the app in recent months. Maybe you've even tried it. Either way, the slow demise of the "classic" version of the app has now been outlined.