Welcome! Here are the latest Insider stories.×CloseYesterday, on Patch Tuesday, as I was finishing up the column that follows lamenting the sorry state of Windows 10 patches and providing copious examples of things gone very wrong, a big, fat example landed in my lap (but happily not in my laptop). Word emerged that Microsoft had accidentally leaked news about a new , a.k.a. . The leak also said that this bug wasn’t patched in that day’s releases.I’ll get back to this latest outrage, but first, let’s review the past several months.I’ve written a lot about Microsoft’s Windows 10 patch...…Welcome! Here are the latest Insider stories.×CloseYesterday, on Patch Tuesday, as I was finishing up the column that follows lamenting the sorry state of Windows 10 patches and providing copious examples of things gone very wrong, a big, fat example landed in my lap (but happily not in my laptop). Word emerged that Microsoft had accidentally leaked news about a new , a.k.a. . The leak also said that this bug wasn’t patched in that day’s releases.I’ll get back to this latest outrage, but first, let’s review the past several months.I’ve written a lot about Microsoft’s Windows 10 patch...WW…

Welcome! Here are the latest Insider stories.×CloseMicrosoft is sugar-coating the news, but in the next upgrade to Windows, due this spring, Cortana as we know it will all but cease to exist. The digital assistant will no longer be easily accessible in Windows 10, and it will lose the ability to do many of the things it was designed to do, such as control smart devices in your home or play music. It won’t compete with Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri or Google Assistant — not that it ever really did. It won’t be built into smart speakers — not that it ever got incorporated into many.Cortana...…Welcome! Here are the latest Insider stories.×CloseMicrosoft is sugar-coating the news, but in the next upgrade to Windows, due this spring, Cortana as we know it will all but cease to exist. The digital assistant will no longer be easily accessible in Windows 10, and it will lose the ability to do many of the things it was designed to do, such as control smart devices in your home or play music. It won’t compete with Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri or Google Assistant — not that it ever really did. It won’t be built into smart speakers — not that it ever got incorporated into many.Cortana...WW…

Close Ad×CloseMicrosoft has unveiled new AI-powered capabilities for its employee experience platform, Viva, designed to help identify skills gaps within an organization’s existing workforce and upskill employees.Called Skills in Viva, the new service pulls information from Microsoft Graph, which provides employee activity signals from across Microsoft 365 applications and services, and combines it with the LinkedIn Skills Graph, which maps the global skills landscape and includes a taxonomy of 39,000 unique skills alongside data on how they relate to each other, to jobs, and to learning...…Close Ad×CloseMicrosoft has unveiled new AI-powered capabilities for its employee experience platform, Viva, designed to help identify skills gaps within an organization’s existing workforce and upskill employees.Called Skills in Viva, the new service pulls information from Microsoft Graph, which provides employee activity signals from across Microsoft 365 applications and services, and combines it with the LinkedIn Skills Graph, which maps the global skills landscape and includes a taxonomy of 39,000 unique skills alongside data on how they relate to each other, to jobs, and to learning...WW…