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Microsoft’s Build Conference is typically a developer conference that attracts more than 5,000 attendees. This year, thanks to coronavirus, the event, like many, transitioned to a fully online event. Just over a month on from the digital event, the entire session catalog is now available on-demand. While physically attending...
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Microsoft Teams is facing some serious competition from Zoom and Zoom offering a Gallery View that displayed as many as 49 participants, the 2×2 offering from Teams simply wasn’t sufficient. Today Microsoft are rolling out an improvement to Teams that offers a 3×3 layout, delivering the full brady bunch...
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Microsoft has announced a fairly substantial shake up of their online services. What we have known to be Office 365 is now becoming Microsoft 365. For a couple of years now, Microsoft 365 has been offered for business customers, essentially covering Windows and Office desktop licensing for users, as...
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Microsoft and the Automotive industry have a long history together, with Windows Embedded Automotive, Ford built their original SYNC platform, Toyota’s Entune and Fiat’s Blue & Me. After originally launching in 1998, the latest Embedded Automotive release was back in 2010 and is due for the end of support...
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Almost every business has gaps in its ideal dataset. These data gaps mean that businesses are forced to take risks when making important decisions that could have massive, long-lasting impacts. These risks are unnecessary, with IoT technology offering live telemetry about virtually every part of your business operations. When...
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IoT devices are everywhere in our homes, but it’s their application in business that has the biggest potential to revolutionise the way we live. In 2020, most Australian homes will have some level of home automation, with connected devices now more affordable than ever. From Smart lighting to security...
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Business often suffers from legacy processes that consume mountains of employee time, transferring data from one system to another. It’s often the case that data needs to be moved between modern and legacy systems. Due to the age of these older applications, many don’t offer modern APIs that enable...
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Microsoft is making moves to kill off Skype for Business. After the 31st of July 2021, Skype for Business Online will no longer be available. While that date seems fairly close, an even more immediate date is the 1st of September, just over a month away, where Microsoft will...
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Teachers basically make or break your learning experience. We’ve probably all had great ones and terrible ones and can understand how significantly the best ones can make complex subject easier to understand. With so much content to learn in such a short period of time, having a very organised,...
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Today Microsoft announced some very positive user figures for Teams, one of the company’s fastest-growing products ever. Since launching back on March 14th, 2017 Teams has gone from strength to strength and just over 2 years, has amassed 13 million daily active users (DAU). There are more than 19 million...
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Microsoft has announced the Surface Hub 2S product line is getting a new 85″ screen size, surpassing the original 82″ Perceptive Pixel display that started the Surface Hub product line. Surface Hub 2S is designed to bring together remote and local employees on a crisp 4K+ resolution screen with...
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If you’re a Windows Insider, chances are you have an email in your inbox this morning from Microsoft. While we seen leaks of the build a week or two ago, Microsoft are officially making available Microsoft Edge Dev, and Microsoft Edge Canary that uses the Chromium engine, rather than...
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Microsoft used this year’s Mobile World Congress as the platform to officially announce HoloLens 2. The new device is available for Pre-order now, but Microsoft are officially targetting the device for business, so AR enthusiasts will have to look elsewhere. HoloLens 2 can be purchased on a subscription, starting...
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Overnight Microsoft released a new build to Windows Insiders, with Windows 10 Build 17728, there’s an update to the Your Phone app. The ability to pair a phone with Windows 10 has been around for a while now, but hasn’t been particularly useful, but this time promises a big game....
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You’ve all heard of Kensington right? They’re the people that make that hardware port that help to physically secure valuable electronics, usually in public areas. They’ve just created a new docking station for the Surface Pro, known as the SD7000 Dual 4K Surface Pro Docking Station. The cute part...
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Microsoft Teams has been inaccessible by many small teams and businesses given it’s upfront cost, but today that all changed. The service has now moved to a freemium model where you can get started for free and the features available are actually really impressive. It’s when you reach the...
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Microsoft have announced their latest product from the Surface team. This one is the cheapest yet and is aimed at kids, school leavers or those ultra-portable professionals that prioritise light and portable over performance. The Surface go weighs just 520 grams (Nintendo Switch weighs 398) and at 8.3mm is also super thin,...
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Microsoft’s HoloLens was a landmark announcement, developed in secrecy for 5 years the Augmented Reality headset was global news. Since then they’ve had moderate success in the business world, usually implemented as a training device. While good for its time, the limitations of a high price and limited field...
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Xbox Game Pass has now been available for a year. The monthly subscription for gamers, is now available across 40 markets and delivers a growing library of more than 100 games. Normally A$10.95, a special on right now has it for just AU$5.48 per month. It seems like the deal has now expired, we...
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The Office 2019 news has started with Microsoft revealing overnight the first big change to the Office suite. OneNote for Windows 10 will replace OneNote 2016 as the default OneNote experience for both Office 365 and Office 2019. OneNote is a much loved product and reaction to this announcement...
Microsoft’s Build Conference is typically a developer conference that attracts more than 5,000 attendees. This year, thanks to coronavirus, the event, like many, transitioned to a fully online event. Just over a month on from the digital event, the entire session catalog is now available on-demand. While physically attending...
Microsoft Teams is facing some serious competition from Zoom and Zoom offering a Gallery View that displayed as many as 49 participants, the 2×2 offering from Teams simply wasn’t sufficient. Today Microsoft are rolling out an improvement to Teams that offers a 3×3 layout, delivering the full brady bunch...
Microsoft has announced a fairly substantial shake up of their online services. What we have known to be Office 365 is now becoming Microsoft 365. For a couple of years now, Microsoft 365 has been offered for business customers, essentially covering Windows and Office desktop licensing for users, as...
Microsoft and the Automotive industry have a long history together, with Windows Embedded Automotive, Ford built their original SYNC platform, Toyota’s Entune and Fiat’s Blue & Me. After originally launching in 1998, the latest Embedded Automotive release was back in 2010 and is due for the end of support...
Almost every business has gaps in its ideal dataset. These data gaps mean that businesses are forced to take risks when making important decisions that could have massive, long-lasting impacts. These risks are unnecessary, with IoT technology offering live telemetry about virtually every part of your business operations. When...
IoT devices are everywhere in our homes, but it’s their application in business that has the biggest potential to revolutionise the way we live. In 2020, most Australian homes will have some level of home automation, with connected devices now more affordable than ever. From Smart lighting to security...
Business often suffers from legacy processes that consume mountains of employee time, transferring data from one system to another. It’s often the case that data needs to be moved between modern and legacy systems. Due to the age of these older applications, many don’t offer modern APIs that enable...
Microsoft is making moves to kill off Skype for Business. After the 31st of July 2021, Skype for Business Online will no longer be available. While that date seems fairly close, an even more immediate date is the 1st of September, just over a month away, where Microsoft will...
Teachers basically make or break your learning experience. We’ve probably all had great ones and terrible ones and can understand how significantly the best ones can make complex subject easier to understand. With so much content to learn in such a short period of time, having a very organised,...
Today Microsoft announced some very positive user figures for Teams, one of the company’s fastest-growing products ever. Since launching back on March 14th, 2017 Teams has gone from strength to strength and just over 2 years, has amassed 13 million daily active users (DAU). There are more than 19 million...
Microsoft has announced the Surface Hub 2S product line is getting a new 85″ screen size, surpassing the original 82″ Perceptive Pixel display that started the Surface Hub product line. Surface Hub 2S is designed to bring together remote and local employees on a crisp 4K+ resolution screen with...
If you’re a Windows Insider, chances are you have an email in your inbox this morning from Microsoft. While we seen leaks of the build a week or two ago, Microsoft are officially making available Microsoft Edge Dev, and Microsoft Edge Canary that uses the Chromium engine, rather than...
Microsoft used this year’s Mobile World Congress as the platform to officially announce HoloLens 2. The new device is available for Pre-order now, but Microsoft are officially targetting the device for business, so AR enthusiasts will have to look elsewhere. HoloLens 2 can be purchased on a subscription, starting...
Overnight Microsoft released a new build to Windows Insiders, with Windows 10 Build 17728, there’s an update to the Your Phone app. The ability to pair a phone with Windows 10 has been around for a while now, but hasn’t been particularly useful, but this time promises a big game....
You’ve all heard of Kensington right? They’re the people that make that hardware port that help to physically secure valuable electronics, usually in public areas. They’ve just created a new docking station for the Surface Pro, known as the SD7000 Dual 4K Surface Pro Docking Station. The cute part...
Microsoft Teams has been inaccessible by many small teams and businesses given it’s upfront cost, but today that all changed. The service has now moved to a freemium model where you can get started for free and the features available are actually really impressive. It’s when you reach the...
Microsoft have announced their latest product from the Surface team. This one is the cheapest yet and is aimed at kids, school leavers or those ultra-portable professionals that prioritise light and portable over performance. The Surface go weighs just 520 grams (Nintendo Switch weighs 398) and at 8.3mm is also super thin,...
Microsoft’s HoloLens was a landmark announcement, developed in secrecy for 5 years the Augmented Reality headset was global news. Since then they’ve had moderate success in the business world, usually implemented as a training device. While good for its time, the limitations of a high price and limited field...
Xbox Game Pass has now been available for a year. The monthly subscription for gamers, is now available across 40 markets and delivers a growing library of more than 100 games. Normally A$10.95, a special on right now has it for just AU$5.48 per month. It seems like the deal has now expired, we...
The Office 2019 news has started with Microsoft revealing overnight the first big change to the Office suite. OneNote for Windows 10 will replace OneNote 2016 as the default OneNote experience for both Office 365 and Office 2019. OneNote is a much loved product and reaction to this announcement...
