Microsoft has upgraded the Accessibility Assistant in PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 to detect color contrast issues on transparent backgrounds, not just solid-colored ones. Until now, if your slide text sat on top of an image, gradient, or layered visual, PowerPoint’s checker could miss real readability problems entirely. The tool now evaluates contrast against what your […]
Your Outlook (classic) PST and OST data files are the heart of your email on Windows. They store every message, calendar appointment, contact, and task on your computer. Most people never think about them until something goes wrong. When classic Outlook crashes, search breaks, or data goes missing, a corrupted PST or OST file is […]
Microsoft is making its Copilot Researcher tool significantly smarter by making two AI models work together. The update introduces two new modes called Critique and Council, both using a combination of OpenAI ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude. Critique has one AI write the research report while a second independently checks it for accuracy, completeness, and source […]
For the first time in more than 20 years, Google is rolling out the ability to change your @gmail.com address without starting over. That means you can keep your existing inbox, Google Drive files, YouTube history, subscriptions, and purchase records, all under a brand new email address. The feature is arriving gradually but is now […]
Microsoft finally gave Word the Ctrl+Shift+V shortcut for pasting plain text. It is a change that millions of people wanted, but it came at a cost: several long standing keyboard shortcuts had to move or disappear entirely, and the rollout created a mess in Outlook that took months to fix. OneNote now has the Ctrl/Cmd […]
