With one eye on the approaching support deadline for Windows 10, Microsoft has commenced the slow wind-down to that date by announcing that they will no longer be selling new licences for their venerable operating system. What does this mean in practice?

There's a small but potentially important change coming for those that use Microsoft's services to provide their email. It's unlikely to impact personal accounts, as almost all users will be using modern methods to connect, but if your intranet service that relies on connection to an email account breaks / has broken for no obvious reason, this may be why...

After over two decades of service, Microsoft have finally pulled the plug on what was once a world-conquering web browser. It will not be mourned by many, although it has caused some issues for legacy applications that still need it. We take a quick look at what is and isn't possible here according to Microsoft's timelines.

We've mentioned a few times recently that Microsoft have been working on a brand new "built from the ground up" version of Outlook over the last few months, which will eventually replace the current version. They have now released a beta version of the app to the general public, which means we can now see broadly how this new version will look and work.

Although Microsoft is very keen for people to use their 365 service to access their ubiquitous Office suite, they are still making "fixed" versions available every few years for those that want to avoid the subscription service for whatever reason. The next of these is launching very soon.

It's finally happening! Once the ruler of the internet browser world, Microsoft's Internet Explorer has been on life support for some time. According to a recent blog by the company, they have finally decided it's time to pull the plug.

Not too long ago in the grand scheme of things, Firefox was the second biggest internet browser in the world. How times change... Recent stats showing the state of the browser "wars" have been released, and things are not looking great for Mozilla's creation.

Despite email almost being as old as time itself, it has been surprisingly difficult to find a decent well supported free desktop / laptop app to manage it on Windows for a while now. Microsoft's current "Mail" app is pretty lacking in many areas. They're now looking to change this with a new version of Outlook that will replace this.