Laurent was the Editorial Manager of the Petri IT Knowledgebase from 2022-2023. He's also the Senior News Editor of Thurrott.com.
After the European Commission started investigating Microsoft’s bundling of Teams with its Microsoft 365 and Office 365 commercial subscriptions last month, Microsoft is ready to address the concerns of EU regulators. This morning, the company announced that will start unbundling Teams from its Microsoft 365/Office 365 commercial suites in the EU and Switzerland on October…
On this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Microsoft’s upcoming special event on September 21, why AI could be a big part of it, and they also look back at an app that didn’t ship.
In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Nvidia doubling its revenue in Q2 thanks to high demand for AI chips, and Microsoft not planning to cut prices for Xbox hardware.
Microsoft is giving IT pros more control over the optional updates available on commercial devices running Windows 11 version 22H2. That also includes what Microsoft calls “Controlled Feature Rollouts” (CFRs), which some organizations may want to keep disabled by default to maintain some stability. These CFRs are the new Windows 11 features that Microsoft releases…
Parallels Desktop 19 for Mac is now available on macOS Mojave or newer, and it introduces more ways to manage Windows virtual machines (VMs) on Macs. Parallels Desktop for Mac is now an officially supported solution for running Windows 11 on Apple Silicon Macs (in addition to Windows 365 Cloud PCs), and for organizations interested…
Last Update: Aug 21, 2023
Clipchamp, the video editing app that Microsoft acquired back in 2021 will soon be available for Microsoft 365 commercial customers. The cloud-based video editor is adding support for work accounts, and it will also seamlessly integrate with OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, and other Microsoft productivity apps. Microsoft believes that Clipchamp can become a great resource for…
In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Bing’s stagnating market share despite Microsoft investing over 10 billion dollars into OpenAI.
Microsoft Loop, the company’s new online collaboration app that launched in public preview earlier this year now integrates with two popular Atlassian products, Jira and Trello. Microsoft Loop users can now add Jira and Trello boards to Loop pages and update them right from the app. Jira, which is Atlassian’s flagship product, is a popular…
In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss the new ‘Downfall’ vulnerability affecting older Intel CPUs, Microsoft’s modernized File Explorer on Windows 11, and the company’s potential trick for selling more new PCs.
Microsoft has released today the August 2023 Patch Tuesday updates for Windows 11 and Windows 10. This month, Microsoft fixed 86 vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, and other components, and you can also expect the usual bug fixes and quality improvements. After the July Patch Tuesday update for Windows 11 version 22H2 enabled the new “Moment…