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With laptops and VPN bandwidth in short supply, Windows Virtual Desktop and Microsoft Endpoint Manager come into their own as ways to keep staff not just working, but also productive and secure.

Office can now suggest better phrases in Word or entire replies in Outlook, design your PowerPoint slides, and coach you on presenting them. Microsoft built those features with Azure Machine Learning and big models – while keeping your Office 365 data private.

How Windows will use Intel’s Control-flow Enforcement Technology to block whole classes of common attacks, now it’s finally reaching the market.

Microsoft’s security tools extend beyond the company’s own platforms. While the ambition for Defender for Linux is broad, the first preview is aimed just at servers and does less than on Windows.

The desktop application is still there, but the heart of Microsoft’s new approach to project management is the online Project service built on Dynamics and integrated with the Power platform. How does it compare to the veteran desktop tool?

A new name should make Microsoft’s strategy for managing PCs through Config Manager and Intune clearer, but IT teams should take the opportunity to clear out old Group Policy and reduce the number of agents on PCs.

A little from column A, a little from column B: XLOOKUP is the new, easier way to retrieve information across Excel spreadsheets.

LinkedIn isn’t moving to Azure because it needs to, or because it’s owned by Microsoft: it’s moving because Microsoft can invest in technologies that even a business as big as LinkedIn can’t build for itself.

Even full disk encryption can’t keep you secure if your PC firmware is compromised, so Secured-core PCs will use the CPU to check if UEFI is telling the truth about secure boot.

Scanning files you open and save isn’t enough to catch malware these days. Here’s how Microsoft Defender tools can help you catch attacks that are missed by traditional security software.

Beyond Patch Tuesday: understanding the different monthly security and quality updates for Windows, and how they’re getting more efficient.

Excel Ideas helps you extract the key information from a spreadsheet, but there’s currently a limited range of insights available and some data formatting may be required.