This week, we are recapping a bunch of updates for Microsoft apps and services, Windows updates (and the lack of them), and some incidents in the cybersecurity space. Read about all of this here!
We are at the close of yet another week of April, so it’s time to recap everything that went on in the world of Microsoft in the past seven days. Today, we’ll be talking about some updates to Microsoft apps and services, news related to Windows updates, and a pinch of cybersecurity news for good measure. Find out about all of this in our weekly digest for April 16 – April 22. We’ll start this section off with news about Microsoft Teams. The online communication and collaboration app is getting two highly requested features within the next couple of months. These are the abilities to enable Together mode for everyone (GA in May 2022) and select a Calendar Show As status in meetings (GA in June 2022). Teams is also coming to the Microsoft Store and should be downloadable from there by next month. Windows Terminal received a few updates too. The generally available version of the app was updated to version 1.12.1098 with a Windows 11 redesign and a bunch of bug fixes. Similarly, Windows Terminal Preview was bumped to version 1.13.1098 that squashed bugs and improved reliability by fixing crashing issues. Pivoting a bit to Office now, Microsoft has issued a reminder that support for Office 2013 is ending in less than a year, on April 11, 2023. This comes after five years of mainstream support and five years of extended support. Office apps will continue to function but customers are obviously recommended to update to newer versions since Office 2013 will no longer receive security updates or technical support. On the browser side of things, Edge Dev Channel build 102.0.1227.0 was released this week and it introduces a management policy to govern the Network Sandbox service and also fixes some crashes. Meanwhile, Edge Canary’s latest builds comes with better search engine management and a flag to enable experimental appearance settings. Other minor updates to Microsoft apps and services include Autofill in Microsoft Authenticator being able to generate strong passwords, ethical settings for Shopping hub in Bing, and historical search query pinning in Microsoft Launcher. Our readers who are gamers may also want to know that PC Game Pass has now arrived in five new Southeast Asian countries, namely: Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. Microsoft announced this week that Windows 10 version 21H2 is finally ready for broad deployment and should be available to every Windows 10 user via Windows Update. This is only a small enablement package but it’s recommended that you upgrade your build as support for Windows 10 version 20H2 is ending next month.
