Did you spot the ‘What’s New in Microsoft Teams’ blog from January? There was a lot to take in, with Microsoft detailing no fewer than 33 brand new features for its collaboration platform.
A criminal ransomware group – thought to be the world’s largest – has been severely disrupted thanks to a huge multinational operation led by the UK’s National Crime Agency.
After four years of seeming inactivity, Microsoft’s Sticky Notes platform looks set for a series of upgrades – with an announcement that 2024 will see “some of our biggest announcements yet”.
A viral hoax has put the issue of misinformation into the spotlight, after many people were duped into thinking their Gmail accounts were about to close.
A leisure centre company has been ordered to stop using facial recognition software to monitor its staff members.
British companies are investing millions of pounds into developing new semiconductors, with no sign that their usage will be slowing down any time soon.
The cybercrime arms race is likely to continue apace throughout 2024, with criminals constantly improving their approaches and techniques to evade the law enforcers trying to take them down.
Was your new year’s resolution to get better at Microsoft Excel? Whilst it’s a powerful app capable of making difficult calculations and pulling together sprawling, multifaceted sheets on which countless businesses run their entire budgets, Excel can also be a quite daunting prospect – with seemingly impenetrable codes to master for the correct results.
Microsoft users can now access Office apps through VR headsets, with the likes of Word and Excel having been made available on Meta’s Quest devices.
If 2023 was the year that AI showed what it was capable of, 2024 will be when it becomes a fully-fledged part of everyday life.
