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Microsoft recently aounced several new preview features in Teams that will help users in their personal life. You can now sign in with your personal email in Teams. Once signed-in, you can create gr...

Microsoft recently aounced that their Microsoft Teams app has 20 million daily active users (DAU), significantly more than Slack.  Much doubt is being cast on how Microsoft Teams DAU are counte...

Microsoft has aounced a partnership with THQ Nordic to distribute five Microsoft Studios games on Steam and on PC disc at retail. This news was leaked a bit prematurely yesterday but was confirmed t...

If for some reason you’re still ruing on operating systems well over a decade old, you soon won’t be able to play games on Steam. Valve aounced that starting on January 1, 2019 the Steam client will cease to support Windows XP and Windows Vista.“Starting on January 1 2019, Steam will officially stop supporting the Windows XP and Windows Vista operating s...

Back in March, Microsoft aounced a major reorganization inside the company with changes to its executive leadership and the formation of twonew engineering teams. Last month, we reported on some morereorganization news. Last night, Mary Jo Foley from ZDNet reported another round of reorganization within Microsoft. She reported two key changes:Edge develo...

Microsoft Teams already allowed its users to create a new shared OneNote Notebook via OneNote tab for team collaboration. Now, Microsoft has improved this feature by allowing user to include an existing OneNote notebook as a tab. This means anyone can bring their own OneNote content directly into a chael for further discussion. Here’s how this new experience will work when you go to OneNote tab in Microsoft Teams.via: Ae...

For Honor may be less than a year old, but it feels like forever since Ubisoft’s medieval fighting game first launched. Much of this is do to its failure to hold a large player base, with many pointing to the game’s lack of dedicated servers as their reason for dropping off. Fortunately Ubisoft stated months ago that dedicated servers would make their way into the game, and after a brief testing period last month, they’ll finally release for everyone in February with the game’s Season V content (via Eurogamer).Titled For Honor: Age of Wolves, the new season arriving on February 15 features “changes to the fighting system, new customization options, and major gameplay updates to five Heroes a...

Microsoft recently released a new update for Teams app for iOS devices. This new v1.0.29 update brings support for calling exteal numbers. If your organisation has an Enterprise Voice license, you can now enjoy the calling feature after this update. This update also includes few other changes, read about them below. The Assignments tab is now available for teachers and students in classteams Swipe on a chat to hide it from your list Bug fixes and performance improvements Download the updated app here from Apple App Store. ...

Microsoft’s Windows Mixed Reality platform only launched around 2 months ago, meaning content for the VR headset platform is likely still an issue. For such a young platform however the good news is that developers appear to be embracing it, with 15 of out SteamVR’s top 40 titles for 2017 supporting the headsets. This includes 5 out of the top 12 Platinum titles, 3 out of the 12 gold titles and 7 of the 16 silver titles, organized by revenue. In addition, Windows Mixed Reality headsets of course also offer beta access to regular SteamVR titles, though performance for those titles can be variable. Hopefully in a year’s time, with enough push from Microsoft’s OEMs, the numbers will look even ...

Steam’s Winter Sale is going on right now and offers deals on hundreds of titles until January 4. Today’s Day 12 of the sale and its featured deals can be read below. Some of the featured discounts today include Grad Theft Auto V, the Don’t Starve franchise, What Remains of Edith Finch, and Slime Rancher among others.Check out the deals for yourself (via Reddit). Featured Deals Franchise Deals These deals are valid throughout the entire sale, so you won’t miss out if you happen to wait a few days before purchasing them. There are also sales on popular AAA and indie games such asThe Witcher 3,Cuphead,Call of Duty: WWII,Dark Souls III,Ark: Survival Evolvedand more. You can view all of the dea...

Steam’s Winter Sale is going on right now and offers deals on hundreds of titles until January 4. Today’s Day 10 of the sale and its featured deals can be read below. Some of the featured discounts today include The Witcher series, Undertale, the Tomb Raider series, and Tacoma among others.Check out the deals for yourself (via Reddit). Featured Deals These deals are valid throughout the entire sale, so you won’t miss out if you happen to wait a few days before purchasing them. In addition, the featured franchise deals for today include The Witcher, Tomb Raider, and Metro. There are also sales on popular AAA and indie games such asGrand Theft Auto V,Cuphead,Call of Duty: WWII,Dark Souls III,...

Steam’s Winter Sale is going on right now and offers deals on hundreds of titles until January 4. Today’s Day 9 of the sale and its featured deals can be read below. Some of the featured discounts today include the Wolfenstein series, Dream Daddy, RiME, and Outlast 2 among others.Check out the deals for yourself (via Reddit).Featured DealsTitleDisc.$USDThe Escapists 220%15.99The Forest33%10.04ASTRONEER20%15.99RAID: World War II75%9.99Project CARS 240%35.99Outlast 250%14.99Titan Quest Aiversary Edition80%3.99Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator33%10.04Foxhole30%13.99Darkest Dungeon®60%9.99X-Plane 1134%39.59WWE 2K1840%35.99The Curious Expedition50%7.49Tabletop Simulator50%9.99RiME40%17.99Franch...

It is sometimes easy to forget that there are actual people behind the controversial decisions Microsoft makes but a new video posted by Microsoft’s Windows Community chael shows us the faces behind bringing back one of Windows 8’s most attractive features – the placeholder OneDrive files which let users see their whole OneDrive collection without it taking up excess space on your disk.With Windows 10 Microsoft very controversially killed that feature, but according to the video demand by users caused Microsoft to rethink and bring it back even better, with improved usability and compatibility.See the team talk about their work and the evolution of OneDrive Files on-Demand below.Via WalkingC...

Microsoft yesterday released a new update for Teams app for iOS devices. This new v1.0.27 update improves the calling experience with support for multiple call handling. The chaels section has got an updated design with this update.The Wiki tab inside Microsoft Teams is a simple way to capture and discuss nuggets of knowledge in the team. With this update, the Wiki tab is now available in chaels under “Tabs”. This update also includes bug fixes and performance improvements.Download the updated app here from Apple App Store.Some links in the article may not be viewable as you are using an AdBlocker. Please add us to your whitelist to enable the website to function properly. Related ...

Microsoft today released a major update for Microsoft Teams to bring more calling capabilities that will allow organizations to switch from Skype for Business completely. Microsoft is adding full featured dialing capabilities, complete with call history, hold/resume, speed dial, transfer, forwarding, caller ID masking, extension dialing, multi-call handling, simultaneous ringing, voicemail, and text telephone (TTY) support.To have these calling features in Teams, organizations need to have Phone System (formerly Cloud PBX) which is part of Office 365 E5 other Office 365 plans. Organizations can also get a Calling Plan (formerly known as PSTN Calling) for their users if needed.Combining Calli...

Publisher THQ Nordic and developer Black Forest Games have been teasing a new game on Twitter since yesterday. With a reveal set for just two hours from now, likely at The Game Awards, it seems to have leaked a little early on its Steam pageand is called Fade to Silence (via Polygon).“As the player you take the role of Ash, a natural but tormented leader. In that role you explore a post-apocalyptic, frozen wasteland to gather the resources necessary to establish a refuge for survival. With dwindling resources, simple tasks like upgrading equipment and collecting materials quickly require an expedition to scavenge the necessary items. In the search for survival materials, players must navigat...

A new Portal game was aounced! And much to everyone’s disappointment, it’s not Portal 3. Valve has teamed up with developer Headup Games to bring us Bridge Constructor Portal.If you wanted to know how unpopular this aouncement was, look no further than the video below, which has its like/dislike ratio tued off on YouTube, and the top comment is “please valve make an apologize for your existence.” Broken English aside, the sentiment is clear. Ouch. But enough of the fan reaction.Bridge Constructor is a series that tasks players with—you guessed it—constructing bridges in order to move the flow of traffic from one end of the level to the other. Much of the fun is building wacky, unrealis...

Microsoft has detailed what they added to their Teams app over the month of November to make it more palatable to business users and in general.For admin users, Microsoft is making it easier to use PowerShell to manage teams, and has added 23 PowerShell cmdlets to make team easier to administrate. The firm is also adding device-based conditional support for macOS, allowing IT departments to manage Apple’s laptops with Intune and secure Teams data.Microsoft has also increased the maximum number of members in a team to 2,500 members, allowing for more flexibility.There’s a lot more that came down to Teams last month, but here’s everything Microsoft chose to highlight:Manage Microsoft Teams via...

After months of waiting, in September Microsoft is finally added support for guest access to Microsoft Teams. With support for guest access on Microsoft Teams, companies were now able to invite users outside of their organization without any hassle. These guests are able to join meetings, take calls and collaborate on documents shared within a team.Unfortunately, there was a big catch, asguest access on Microsoft Teams required an Azure Active Directory account. Microsoft said they were working on bringing support for the regular Microsoft Accounts later on, which would cast a much wider net of potential users and allow one to invite nearly anyone to a Teams session. Then a Microsoft spok...

It seems Microsoft’s efforts to force companies to stay up to date with the latest version of Windows 10 is hitting some pushback, as Microsoft has once again had to extend support for a very old version of the operating system.Windows 10 November Up...