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Microsoft has reported an exceptionally strong quarter with a revenue of $49.4 billion and a net income of $16.7 billion. This was due to growth across practically all of its business segments.

The latest Canary build of Microsoft Edge has a new Microsoft Office button - off by default - which activates a sidebar that offers quick access to web apps available at Office.com.

After Azure Government Secret and Top Secret clouds, Microsoft has now announced Office 365 Government Secret cloud, a new US Government Cloud environment to aid in securing classified data.

Microsoft has announced that its design revamp for Office.com should be available to all business and education customers by the end of this week. It is coming soon for the general public too.

In a move to expand its literacy portfolio, Microsoft has introduced Reading Coach in addition to new updates to Reading Progress. The latest resource will be available in Teams for Education soon.

In our recap for the last week of 2021, we walk you through all the important stuff that happened in the world of Microsoft in the past few days, with a dash of nostalgia for good measure.

Microsoft has reported a strong first quarter of its 2022 fiscal year with a revenue of $45.3 billion. It demonstrated strong growth in cloud offerings and Windows while Surface continued to decline.

Microsoft has announced a new add-on for Microsoft 365 and Office 365 customers, called Privacy Management. It offers organizations a holistic and end-to-end view of their data privacy status.

Microsoft has issued an advisory highlighting that multiple U.S. and Israeli defense companies and global maritime transportation firms are under attack from a threat actor, likely from Iran.

The new Office Insider Beta build 14530.20000 brings with it several fixes and improvements. Among these is a bug fix that addresses high CPU usage for Excel under certain circumstances, and more.

Microsoft has acknowledged that it is investigating a Windows zero-day vulnerability that is currently being exploited in the wild. The firm has provided a workaround that involves AcitveX controls.

A bug in Microsoft Outlook is tricking people into believing that phishing emails are from genuine contacts by using the Cyrillic alphabet which has letters similar to those in the Latin alphabet.

Microsoft is making Trusted Documents more secure by making sure they block Active Content like macros, ActiveX, and DDE after the IT admin's choice to block it, instead of the end-users' choice.

Support for Microsoft 365 apps and services on Internet Explorer 11 has ended today. Users should expect a degraded experience, no new features, connectivity issues, and no support moving forward.

Microsoft is rolling out File Cards to Office for Android this month. It is a modern UI layout that offers you inline contextual information and quick actions for your Office files.

Microsoft today detailed a bunch of improvements that it will be bringing to the sharing experience to OneDrive, SharePoint, and more. These include access permissions and link-sharing improvements.

Microsoft today announced a bunch of new features that are coming for Excel on the web. It's getting better navigation, multiple range selection, keyboard shortcuts, version history, and more.

With this free to download user guide, you'll be able to implement its software features for effective business communication and collaboration. This offer ends tomorrow, on 01/27.

With this free to download user guide, you'll be able to implement its software features for effective business communication and collaboration. This offer is available until Jan 27.

The security firm, Malwarebytes, is the latest entity to reveal it was targeted by state-sponsored hackers implicated in the SolarWinds breach. The hackers gained access to a limited set of emails.

Learn about Office 365 and what it can do for you. Get tips on creating a document with web apps and how to edit and upload it. This printable guide is yours to use, distribute, and share at will!

Today, Microsoft announced that SharePoint reached a new milestone. It now has 200 million users in the cloud, saying that usage of the service has doubled over the course of the last year.

Microsoft is rolling out its monthly set of updates for the Office apps on iOS to those in the Insider program. Presenter Coach is now available in PowerPoint, among other new features.

Microsoft has gone over the updates made to the Microsoft 365 suite of apps this month. These include new Teams apps, new features for Edge, and a OneNote feed in Outlook on the web.

In light of the impending launch of the first Apple Silicon-powered Macs, Microsoft has published a document saying that its Office apps will take 20 seconds longer when they're first launched.

Microsoft's monthly Office Insiders build for Windows users in the Current Channel (Preview) brings a few text proofing improvements, custom data types using Power Query in Excel, and more.

Microsoft today announced that it will be adding a new 'My Feed' section for users logged into their work/school accounts, along with the Office 365 section, to the new tab page starting with Edge 87.

Microsoft today announced that it is expanding Excel data types to allow for Power BI tables and custom, user-defined databases using Power Query to be transformed into linked data types.

Microsoft has announced a handful of features and improvements making their way to PowerPoint for Mac users, including the ability to record presenter video while recording a slideshow.

Microsoft has announced that its quizzing tool, Forms, is now available for personal use, allowing anyone to create quizzes and polls to send to others. Forms works on the web and mobile devices.