The Touch Bar in Apple’s updated MacBook Pro laptops is a useful and unique add-on, but for the first few months of the product’s life, it supported little more than a handful of Apple apps built into MacOS. Since then, some big players, from Photoshop to Spotify, have added support, and now one of the …
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Now playing: Watch this: Microsoft Teams’ tricks should make Slack nervous 1:41 Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella introduced the new Teams software at a New York press conference. John Falcone/CNET Microsoft unveiled its long-rumored collaboration tool Wednesday at an event in New York. Dubbed Microsoft Teams, it’s a forthcoming Office 365 component that adds a group chat tool to the company’s …
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Chatting and collaborating with colleagues used to be all about watercoolers and whiteboards. These days it’s more about videoconferencing, email and at least one form of instant messaging. Microsoft is the latest company to jump on the work-chat bandwagon with the launch of Teams at a New York event Wednesday. Teams brings together chats, notes and planning with the intention …
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The big splash at Microsoft’s product showcase on Wednesday was a bit of a throwback. It wasn’t a new tablet or fitness band or even a laptop. It was an all-in-one desktop computer. While desktops lost the computing crown to smartphones years ago, Microsoft sought to remake its own all-in-one, called the Surface Studio, as a touchscreen-enabled hub for artistry …
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Microsoft Office is a need for some, a preference for others. In both cases it’s an expensive proposition, with the one-user Office 365 Personal edition costing $69.99 and five-license Office 365 Home costing $99.99 — per year. However, there’s a way to game the system, to turn a Personal subscription into a Home subscription for a one-time charge of $9.99. …
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