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Everyone using Microsoft 365 now gets access to Visio, but what can you do with it – and which diagramming features do you still have to pay more for?

Often known as the universal data munging tool, Excel is trying out new options for processing messy text as well as entering it more quickly and accurately in the first place.

Microsoft Lists doesn’t replace Microsoft To Do or Planner, but it might edge out Excel for information management. Also, Microsoft Lists is now available on Android.

Trick attackers into exposing themselves when they breach your systems using decoys that are easy to deploy and act like tripwires

Not everyone wants to be a project manager but Microsoft wants to make it less painful when team task management needs to get more formal.

Default protection blocks known exploits but you can choose what to block and where with extra tools and services for more control.

New employees may not know how to protect company data, and leavers might try to take it with them: These Microsoft tools can help you tackle both problems.

To spot faults quickly even if they take a month to show up, Azure feeds signals into a machine learning system: in the future, you will be able to do that for your own cloud workloads.

Far too many attacks succeed because it’s just too hard to put security basics in place; Microsoft wants to simplify and automate more of that.

Create custom images for your virtual infrastructure that automatically follow your security policy.

It won’t be long before you can write megabytes of data per second on synthetic DNA that will be readable for thousands of years.

Running Windows Server on your own infrastructure and using cloud services to do it offers lots of benefits. But that cloud harmony means subscriptions rather than unsupported free operating systems.