Microsoft News Recap is a weekly article that highlights the top Microsoft news for the past week. Sit down, have a coffee and enjoy reading!
Microsoft Edge version 92 goes live with a new password integrity panel and more
O latest update for Microsoft Edge has brought with it a new password integrity dashboard, which provides a central place to review any problems with your saved passwords to help you improve your online security. Another cool feature is the use of natural language in the address bar when searching your browsing history. Now it will allow you to type, for example, “last week’s cake recipe” and will show your browsing history related to last week’s cake recipes.
New Outlook Calendar Dashboard View (formerly Project Moca) Starts General Deployment, Collects Calendars, Tasks, and Notes
ONE the new Calendar Dashboard view has started rolling out in Outlook on the web. Formerly called Project Moca during testing, the new view provides a consolidated experience for managing multiple tasks, events, and emails.
Microsoft Edge is improving PWA notifications to better highlight the name of web apps
Progressive Web App (PWA) notifications in Microsoft Edge are set to see an improvement to better highlight the name of the web application that sent the notification. As it is, all notifications are listed as coming from Microsoft Edge, but it looks like it’s going to change, making it easy to know which app sent a notification.
Oye @MasterDevwi On some Canary Border devices, PWA notifications look like this.
On other devices, it’s the classic Edge notification.
Is this an A / B test or have I lost a flag somewhere? pic.twitter.com/SLQawfkuCS– Florian (@ flobo09) July 13, 2021
Microsoft acquires ICES leader CloudKnox Security
Cloud infrastructure rights management provider, CloudKnox Security, was acquired by Microsoft. The goal of the acquisition is to enhance Microsoft’s cloud security, with the goal of bringing the unified privileged access and rights management of CloudKnox to the Microsoft 365 cloud, particularly Microsoft Azure Active Directory.
This week in Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams Presenter mode to add new Reporter and Mosaic layouts next month
Of the new presenter modes are coming to teams in August. The first is Reporter mode, participants will place the video stream and content on the presenter’s shoulder, similar to a news anchor story. The second is Mosaic mode, which is where the video stream will be displayed along with the content.
Microsoft Teams will allow users to change the playback speed of meeting recordings
Starting to roll out in early August, the the playback speed of meeting recordings can be adjusted, making it easy to quickly scroll through recordings.
Microsoft’s new streaming development kit for teams is designed for cloud production workflows
Team integration into production studio cloud production workflows is now easier with a new transmission development kit. The open source project will require an Azure virtual machine to get the audio and video sources of Teams meetings directly from the Microsoft cloud, where they can be accessed by media producers using their online studio in the cloud without using it without desktop applications. .
Microsoft Teams on the desktop will use native OS notifications by default for new users
New Microsoft Teams users on the desktop will have the option to use native operating system notifications enabled by default, helping to create a consistent and integrated experience from the start.
Microsoft Teams adds support for mobile meeting apps
Meeting apps are coming to mobile devices on iOS and Android, allowing third-party applications to be added on PC but then accessed on mobile devices.
Microsoft Teams now allows users to translate slides in PowerPoint Live presentations
Now it is possible translate slides in PowerPoint Live presentations. The slide translation feature allows attendees to convert the slide show content into their own language while viewing in private.
That’s it for this week. We will be back next week with more news from Microsoft.
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