This should surprise no-one … Microsoft says that it recommends Windows 11 over Windows 10. Even though end-of-support for Windows 10 is over a year away (October 2025), Microsoft is pushing people to switch now. Why? Microsoft is continually frustrated by the reluctance of their customers to move from Windows 10. Windows 11 has been […]
Passkey logins are now available to all Microsoft accounts as an easier, faster and more secure way to login to Microsoft 365 and other accounts. It’s a great login option we’ve been waiting for. Passkeys are a secure and password-less way to login to a web site using the login/verification options on a device. That […]
The latest Photos app in Windows 11 and Windows 10 has a ‘one stop’ place to resize an image and show the file size after the changes. It’s something users have wanted for over a decade! Sometimes Microsoft sneaks in something truly good and useful, without the fanfare or hype it deserves. That’s what happened […]
Sticky Notes is a wholly new Windows app which improves on the current Microsoft app of the same name. Here’s how it works, who gets it and the unexpected place Sticky Notes are saved. Why, you may ask, is an Office Watch an MS Office specialist writing about a Windows feature? Because it’s not really […]
Our favorite compression tool, WinRAR, has just released version 7. WinRAR supports all the file compression formats including ZIP. We like the RAR format mostly for the ‘Solid’ option which can give better compression across many files in the same archive. ‘Solid’ is great for making a smaller archive of many already compressed files like […]
