Usama Jawad is a news reporter at XDA. With a decade of experience in covering technology news, he primarily focuses on topics related to Microsoft, while also exploring themes in software, marketing, and advertising. Usama's work has been featured in Neowin, The Hoops News, and XDA.
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Potentially to the dismay of many Windows 11 customers, Microsoft has revealed that it won't offer options to uninstall Recall from PCs.
YouTube has decided to introduce more ads on the platform, but they might be slightly less intrusive.
Raycast, a Mac launcher, is expanding to Windows and iOS.
Back in May, Winamp's owner company, Llama Group, announced that it will soon make the source code of the iconic media player available to the public. The Windows media player was all the rage back in the early 2000s, so naturally, excitement was high among users of the classic software. This announcement followed another from 2021 where Llama Group had
Teams now allows renaming General channel and recommending channels to new members for clarity. New shared tab replaces Files tab in group chats, images appear horizontally to save space.
By: Usama Jawad
In the past few days, we have covered all the new features Microsoft introduced in Excel and Teams during the month of September 2024. However, there is one additional piece of software that typically gets a monthly roundup, and that is Copilot for Microsoft 365. Now, Microsoft has detailed the enhancements it made to its generative AI assistive tool during the past four weeks. As usual, the improvements are split up into two categories: end-user and admin.
Users of uBlock Origin may be in for a rude awakening as Google has started automatically disabling the extension in Chrome.
YouTube now offers more granular controls for playback speed, improved landscape mode, and an adjustable miniplayer.
Excel for the web now offers a powerful data cleaning tool powered by Copilot in the Data tab.
Microsoft's flagship online communication software netted a bunch of interesting features this month.
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