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Microsoft and Viasat are partnering to bring Internet access to 10 million users in Africa and North and Central America. The move is part of Microsoft's Airband Initiative, which uses old TV spectrum and other technologies to provide Internet access, although this will be the first time a satellite company has participated in the initiative.
Microsoft is finally adding screen recording to Windows 11 as a standard feature. The Snipping Tool in Windows 11, which is currently used to take screenshots, will soon receive an update that will include the screen recording feature. Windows users will no longer need to rely on third-party software or the Xbox game pad.
Regulators around the world are closely investigating the acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft, and the latter in turn assures everyone of the purity of its intentions. However, it seems Steam does not have to assure - Gabe Newell told Kotaku that there is nothing against it and that it does not need any guarantees from Microsoft.
I think hardly anyone will argue with the fact that tabs in browsers are extremely convenient. But when exactly do you think they appeared? It turns out that Microsoft was testing them in Windows 95 long before they appeared in all browsers.
Microsoft has introduced the ability to create presentations in Microsoft Power Point in portrait mode. This feature is now available in beta via the Microsoft Office Insider app on iPhone and iPad.
In October this year, Microsoft announced the termination of support for its SwiftKey keyboard for Apple devices and removed it from the App Store, but now it is available again for iOS users.
Microsoft is adding sign language support to Microsoft Teams. It will allow sign language users to select up to two videos of other participants to capture in a central location, allowing designated signers to be visible throughout the meeting.
Nvidia has announced a "multi-year collaboration" with Microsoft "to build one of the world's most powerful AI supercomputers" that will be designed to handle the massive computational workloads that are needed to train and scale artificial intelligence.
Microsoft is adding a whole bunch of casual games to Microsoft Teams. Now you can play your favorite solitaire, EOD, Wordament, or IceBreakers with your colleagues in between work meetings. All four games are interactive and support multiple players and were developed by Microsoft Casual Games, part of Xbox Game Studios. The games are available in the new Games for Work program in Microsoft Teams and can support from two to 250 players.
Microsoft has announced that it will begin rolling out a November update for Xbox consoles that will allow you to join voice chats directly from the console, as well as add a new Captures app and bring several other improvements.
Microsoft has started testing a new search and filtering system in Windows 11 Task Manager. It will allow you to quickly find a program that is not working properly and terminate it, or quickly create a dump file, etc.
This week Microsoft is releasing a new version of its DirectStorage technology and the biggest new addition is GPU decompression for Windows PC games. It is the next round of industry development to improve game launch speed.
Forza Horizon 5 players on PC now have access to ray tracing and DLSS or FSR scaling. This and other features came to the game with the latest update by Donut Media.
Microsoft is starting to roll out iCloud Photos syncing with Windows 11. Users will be able to update the standard Photos application in Windows, where it will be possible to connect an Apple account for synchronization.
Microsoft has started testing a new increased amount of advertising in insider builds of Windows - testers have noticed an increased number of banners and pop-up ads. While it is not yet possible to say for sure that Microsoft will definitely transfer this to stable builds of the system, but anything is possible.
