Just installed Microsoft 365 or Office on a new PC? Before you open a single document, do one quick thing: check for updates. We did a clean install straight from Microsoft using the standard “Click to Run” method, expecting the newest version, and within minutes an update check found fresh security and bug fixes waiting. […]
Quick Parts in New Outlook for Windows and web lets you save reusable chunks of text, complete with formatting, images and tables, then drop them into any email in two clicks. Standard replies, disclaimers, directions to your office or a greeting you type fifty times a week: save it once and reuse it forever. Best […]
Reusable content in Outlook should be simple, but Microsoft has turned it into a confusing tangle of overlapping tools with near identical names. Mail Templates, My Templates and two completely different features both called Quick Parts all promise to save you retyping the same email text, yet each one works differently depending on whether you […]
Microsoft now has a free Microsoft AI Playground where you can test its own in-house AI models with no Azure account and no credit card, just a Microsoft login. The MAI Playground opens up three models to try: MAI-Voice-2 for text to speech, MAI-Image-2.5 for text to image, and MAI-Transcribe-1.5 for audio to text. These […]
Microsoft UK promotes a single “Student, NHS and Armed Forces discount” banner, which makes the Microsoft 365 UK discounts look identical for everyone. They are not even close. Students can get Microsoft 365 free for years, while NHS staff and armed forces members get only a small hardware discount and no money off Office software […]