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Hangouts: Google announced it would be opening up free access to advanced video conferencing features within Hangouts for both Gsuite and Gsuite for Education users. This will allow up to 250 participants per call, live streaming for up to 100,000 viewers within a specific domain, and the ability to record meetings and save them to Google Drive. This will remain available until July 1, 2020. Teams: According to The Verge, Microsoft plans to offer a six month free trial of the premium tier for its Teams software (which was originally offered to help schools, businesses, and hospitals in China set up on the platform)....

That’s right: Shake to Minimize is leaving Windows 10 for good. Why Is Microsoft Removing “Shake to Minimize?” Although it is an underused Windows 10 feature, it is also one that drew considerable ire from users, usually after triggering the feature accidentally. Shake to Minimize was first introduced with Windows 7. It allows users to close all windows on their screen bar one by moving their mouse back and forth rapidly....

Several New PDF Features Will Come to Microsoft Edge According to a report by Windows Latest, Microsoft is planning to add multiple new features to Edge so that viewing and working with PDFs is more productive. Once this happens, users won’t need to leave Edge for most PDF-related tasks. New Features for PDFs in Microsoft Edge That site has noticed various new PDF features in both test builds and experimental flags of the Microsoft Edge browser....

After No. 4 Michigan’s 14-7 victory against No. 8 Wisconsin at Michigan Stadium on Saturday, it’s obvious what most fans want to see at the end of the season. MORE: Top 25 live updates | Top performers We want to put Michigan and No. 2 Ohio State together in Ohio Stadium on Nov. 26 with matching 11-0 records, just like in 2006. The Wolverines beat a top-10 team for the first time since 2008 with the win against the Badgers....

Michigan Court of Claims Judge Christopher Murray issued the decision in response to a directive that Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced earlier this month. While Michigan is an open carry state, Benson and Nessel said in announcing their directive that the intention of the temporary ban was to make sure that “all eligible Michigan citizens can freely exercise their fundamental right to vote without fear of threats, intimidation or harassment....

Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, made the remarks Wednesday in anticipation of Trump’s rally this weekend to stump for Republican candidates for two statewide offices. Benson said baseless claims by Trump and his allies that widespread voter fraud marred the 2020 election could spill into the 2022 midterms. “The threats against our democracy are truly a five-alarm fire and in that fire, Michigan is ground zero,” Benson said during a press call....

Shea Patterson, who recently transferred to Michigan from Mississippi and was granted immediate eligibility, was drafted by the Texas Rangers in the 39th (and next-to-last round) round of the 2018 MLB Draft on Wednesday. MORE: Patterson ruling finally gives Michigan a QB worth waiting for in 2018 Patterson has yet to play baseball in college. According to his biography on the Ole Miss athletics website, he played baseball and basketball in high school, but the university didn’t elaborate....

Just when he returns remains a mystery as well, but McGary told the Detroit Free Press that he won’t be sidelined when Michigan heads to Duke Dec. 3 as part of the Big Ten/ACC. “I won’t be in a suit,” he told the newspaper. “No. I won’t be in a suit.” He later downplayed that assertion, saying he "would like to not be denied playing." In between the opener and the game vs....

Microsoft and Sony are in comfortable positions. Their consoles are performing well and selling games like hotcakes. Both the PS3 and the Xbox 360 have their own niche, but in reality they thrive off the same games. Sure there are some exceptions with exclusive titles, but more and more, the biggest games appear on both consoles. Out of the 14 console games on Game Rant’s 20 Most Anticipated Games of 2011 list, eight can be played on both the Xbox 360 and PS3....

Microsoft’s Challenge to Google This news comes to us from Forbes. If you’re unsure as to why Google and Australia are trading blows in the first place, we need to take a step back in time. The problems began when Australia’s government announced its plan to help journalism online. The proposed plan stated that if Google or Facebook showed content or a snippet from a media website, they’d have to pay the website fees for using the content....

Power BI, however, is specifically designed to make data more intelligible, valuable, and actionable by connecting it with other enterprise information—letting you discover insights quickly. In this guide, we’ll take a look at how the two applications differ from each other and offer recommendations for using them. Key Differences Between Excel and Power BI Excel is a spreadsheet application that offers powerful functions for data manipulation, analysis, and presentation. You can create and modify spreadsheets, use formulas and functions, create charts and graphs, and import data from other sources....

Microsoft Game Studios corporate vice president, Phil Spencer, spoke with Edge magazine during the Tokyo Game Show and revealed just how successful Microsoft is expecting the Kinect to be: Spencer also went on to mention that in order to achieve this lofty goal, they are partnering with North American retailers to get the product into the hands of customers: Along with those 7,000 stores doing midnight launches, another 30,000 retail stores will have demo stations installed to give people a chance to get some hands-on (or should it be hands-free?...

Microsoft has acknowledged the Red Ring of Death many times in the past and has even went as far as to make some self-aware jokes on the matter. Earlier this month Microsoft released Xbox 360 Red Ring of Death posters in order to make light of a trying time in the company’s history. Former Head of Xbox, Peter Moore, explains in the documentary that all in all The Red Ring of Death cost the company around $1....

Microsoft Flight Simulator has seen critical acclaim following its July 2020 release amidst the ongoing pandemic. The Asobo Studio-developed flight simulator was Microsoft’s first flight simulation game since 2012’s Microsoft Flight and was named Best Sim/Strategy Game at the 2020 Game Awards. The game has regularly been updated over the year and three months since its release and a recent reveal from Asobo shows off some of the newest planes being added....

As of now we know that an upcoming flagship by the name of Cityman will hit the markets with huge processor caliber and gigantic screen size. The other device us code named Talkman. Common specs for both these anticipated Lumia smartphones include 64-bit computing processor, triple-LED flash and of course, Windows 10. Microsoft is designing a suite spec on lines of “Hand-off” as seen on the iPhone OSX. Notable specs of the Lumia Cityman are as under-...

For the Xbox One X, a number of titles sport massive file sizes – like Forza Motorsport 7 clocking in at 100GB, and Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare requiring 130GB of space – which means that players will have to swap hard drive storage space for a fully immersive 4K experience. Moving some of this data to digital storage will help these high-res games take up less space, making for a better user experience overall, or so Microsoft hopes....

Cooking Simulator, developed and published by Big Cheese Studio, was first released in 2019 exclusively on PC. It was then released for Xbox and other platforms in August 2020. It has found moderate success since its launch but wasn’t a viral hit by any means. Nevertheless, this past week Xbox Game Pass announced Cooking Simulator would be joining the platform. It’s currently offered for PC, Cloud, and Xbox consoles....

Prevent YouTube From Crashing in Microsoft Edge On Reddit, a Microsoft community manager commented that the company has pushed an update to fix the YouTube issues in Edge. This fix first went live in Edge’s Canary channel, where it fixed the issue for a lot of users but not for everyone. The community manager said: Shortly after that, Microsoft released a fix in the stable channel. This allowed everyone to apply this fix in their browser and get rid of the annoying YouTube issue....

Alongside a number of partners across 35 countries, the company was able to dismantle the Necurs network, which had infected more than 9 million devices since it was first detected in 2012. Necurs has been behind various criminal scams in recent years, including the stealing of sensitive information and posing as pharmaceutical companies. You might have come across bots before, which are widely used to provide automated responses to user queries....

For the uninitiated, Brockovich’s – who was not even a qualified advocate – relentless persuasion of Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) of California is one of the most talked about and widely-known legal battles in recent memory. Julia Roberts’ Oscar-winning turn in the biographical legal drama follows her collecting evidence and building up a water-tight case against the company for alleged contamination of drinking water in Hinkley, a south California town....