With Events, users can set up conferences in physical locations. Currently the feature is only available in trial for events in New York City and San Francisco. By leveraging Events, LinkedIn users can announce events they are hosting, invite people, and plan the day. Microsoft’s network says the tool will be made available from October 2017 in English-speaking countries. Other language locations will be added at a later date. If you have used Facebook events you will be familiar with how the feature works on LinkedIn: “With LinkedIn Events, you’ll be able to seamlessly create and join professional events, invite your connections, manage your event, have conversations with other attendees, and stay in touch online after the event ends....

1 Features2 Upcoming Features Now, LinkedIn is rolling out its new Groups environment, and the feature is moving away from its roots. You may remember the original LinkedIn Groups was something like Yahoo Answers. It allowed users to ask questions and have them answered… simple enough. Sure, we all love (or loved) a bit of Yahoo Answers, but LinkedIn wants something more fitting with modern social networks. With that in mind, the new Groups experience seeks to make conversations more network based....

“We’re helping millions of people stay connected while also jointly combating fraud and misinformation about the virus, elevating authoritative content on our platforms, and sharing critical updates in coordination with government healthcare agencies around the world,” the statement reads. “We invite other companies to join us as we work to keep our communities healthy and safe.” Many of those companies have already begun to take action. Bing presents various different opinions on COVID-19 when searching it for it, as well as a timeline and links to official information at the top of the page....

Rudd was previously outspoken in her views about encryption, calling for a ban in apps like WhatsApp. The statement followed terrorist attacks in London last week when Khalid Masood used the messaging service shortly before the attack. However, the debate was noticeably missing from yesterday’s discussion. Instead, the tech firm’s joint message promised to make sure “terrorists do not have a voice online”. Responding to questions, Rudd said the topic would come in later discussions....

Gamers well know the pitch battle between some console and PC players. The latter are not tied to the Xbox ecosystem and are using Windows 10 as their PC gaming platform. For those gamers, using the Xbox app and Xbox Live is not something they want. At E3 this week, Microsoft gaming head Phil Spencer took part in a Q&A, revealing the company will do more to appeal to work with PC gamers: “I’d say our early work in… Xbox Live stuff for Windows was well intentioned, but anybody that’s a PC gamer (I play a lot of PC games myself) saw this kind of imposter console work coming over,” says Spencer....

The attack method centers around a flaw in Windows’ Remote Desktop Protocol and is especially significant because it’s wormable. Simply, an attacker can create a malware that can spread from PC to PC in a widespread, WannaCry-like outbreak. Users can fully mitigate the threat by installing the latest update. According to Microsoft, plenty of users are at risk of BlueKeep based attacks: “Via open source telemetry, we see more than 400,000 endpoints lacking any form of network-level authentication, which puts each of these systems potentially at risk from a worm-based weaponization of the BlueKeep vulnerability,” its DART team said....

While Chrome has struggled to make an impact in enterprise, it has been widely adopted in education. The cloud-based OS is light, allowing machines (Chromebooks) to be affordable. Microsoft developers Windows 10 S to bring the same lightened OS experience, albeit with the capability of a full desktop experience. The company wants OEMs to back the platform with laptops that will compete with Chromebooks. These supported devices will be made by OEMs like HP and Acer and will be starting at $189....

1 Features2 Availability This new application makes it simple for family members to stay up to speed with their digital usage. It works on Windows 10, Xbox, iOS and Android, and users can see which applications are used the most and how long they’re used for. Importantly, account owners can set screen-time limits on these apps. So, if Junior is spending too much time on Fortnite, you can shut him down for the night....

Some of you may remember the previous Microsoft Academic Search services. The company was developing the project but decided to abandon it in 2012. With that in mind, the official name of the new service is Microsoft Academic 2.0. By using Bing, the service can deliver academic-based search results that are workable within a modern web browser. By conducting searches, users can see information from schools, journals, studies, conferences, lectures, and authors....

The problem was seemingly caused by a patch sent out by Microsoft on October 3. This required patch was sent out by Microsoft to squash a bug between Internet Explorer and printers. It looks like this update is now causing all new problems for Windows users. Indeed, Microsoft was forced to reissue KB4524147. Uninstalling KB4524147 removed the issue but left users open to a printer flaw that needed to be fixed....

One of the most interesting aspects of this agreement is that it brings Charles Simonyi back to Microsoft. He originally joined Microsoft in 1981 and remained with the company until 2002. Simony’s tenure with the company is defined by overseeing the creation of Office apps such as Word and Excel. After leaving Redmond, Simonyi founded Intentional Software. Microsoft’s interest in the company has been piqued by Intentional’s recent developments of productivity apps focused on teams....

Game of Drones was launched this year and allows quadcopters drone racing AI systems to compete against each other. While it has been using AirSim, Microsoft says it has expanded the simulator to improve Game of Drones. AirSim is a Microsoft Research project that allows drone manufacturers and software developers to create robotic autonomous systems. As the name suggests, the platform provides a realistic simulation environment. Designers can use the sim to train their machine learning technology and generate data for analysis....

The company has teamed up with the Make-A-Wish Foundation to help raise funds for the charitable organization. Microsoft has debuted its “Consoles for Kids” program to help the goal. New Xbox One X consoles with fresh decal designs are now available. These are one-off versions of the console that have been signed by celebrities such as Usain Bolt and The Rock. Developers are also on board with special edition Xbox One X consoles based on major games....

Microsoft brought the feature to its Authenticator app on iOS earlier this year. At the time, the company promised it would also come to the Android variant. After a longer than expected delay, the feature is available. For users who leverage two-factor authentication (2FA) on Microsoft 365, this is a welcome addition. When using the Microsoft Authenticator app, more information about accounts is visible. For example, the phone sing-in tool is shown....

“We believe in supporting and collaborating with the online advertising industry to develop standards that make the digital ecosystem function better for consumers, marketers and publishers.” The Coalition for Better Ads was created by leading trade associations and other companies involved in media and advertising. It promotes consumer rights through pushing for ads to be safe and to improve the user experience. Ads are a way of life online, but they are also hugely controversial....

Chinese regulators have suspended Bing for seven days, citing the service’s auto-suggest ability as the problem. Reuters reports the official Bing China site has confirmed the suspension. Microsoft says it remains committed to providing the search platform in China: “Bing is a global search platform and remains committed to respecting the rule of law and users’ right to access information.” History Bing has fallen foul of China’s fickle, strict, and confusing regulations before....

The latest could see the company bring email intelligence from the assistant to fruition. Sources close to the company told The Verge that Microsoft is testing Cortana integration for Outlook. As Microsoft’s mobile output these days is focused on Android and iOS, the integration would be on those platforms. It would increase emails tasking through intelligence on mobile devices running Outlook. For example, users of the email client will be able to have Cortana read emails too them....

Microsoft announcement came on the same day the Open Compute Project Global Summit 2019 kicked off. “Project Zipline is a cutting-edge compression technology optimized for a large variety of datasets, and our release of RTL (Register Transfer Language) allows hardware vendors to use the reference design to produce hardware chips to allow the highest compression, lowest cost, and lowest power out of the algorithm,” Microsoft said blog post. By open sourcing Project Zipline, Microsoft is allowing developers to create for the service....

That Windows 10 Mobile announcement was Microsoft saying the platform is no longer a focus and no new hardware is coming. With the company already not building new devices, OEMs are expected to leave the platform behind. Microsoft has been clear that it wants to continue to push mobile, but will focus its own services on other platforms. At the summit, Satya Nadella was asked, “Have you given up on smartphone hardware?...

“I’m focused on growing the top-line revenue and accelerating that business and its potential with ours,” she said during the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference. “To add more customers. To increase their impact. To have it grow faster. To accelerate our business. To have the technical integration to deliver customer value…. I’m deeply, deeply focused on driving revenue growth.” Despite this, Hood reiterates that there are no plans to share an accounting team across the two companies....