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Azure was up 51 percent (from some undisclosed base number) for the quarter and Dynamics 365 was up 49 percent from some undisclosed base – its third consecutive quarter of growth. There’s a lot of headroom for upselling customers to Microsoft’s most expensive E5 SKU of Microsoft 365/Office 365, since only eight percent of Office 365 users are currently on Office 365 E5, Hood noted. Microsoft 365/Office 365 consumer subscribers are now at 51....

In a blog post, Microsoft general manager of global industry product marketing Kees Hertogh said the tool had been renamed and now allows customers to measure the impact of Microsoft cloud usage on a company’s carbon footprint and drill down into emissions by month, service, and datacenter region. The tool also lets users enter un-migrated workloads and get an estimate of emissions savings from migrating to the Microsoft cloud while also giving users a chance to calculate and understand the carbon impact of cloud workloads across scope 3 emissions....

The two key Defender for Cloud services are Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and Cloud Workload Protection (CWP) – two categories of security products that address cloud misconfigurations. SEE: Cloud computing is the key to business success. But unlocking its benefits is hard work Eric Doerr, corporate vice president of Cloud Security at Microsoft, noted there are no dependencies on Google’s own tools, easy onboarding from GCP workloads, and more than 80 recommendations to harden an environment in GCP or AWS....

As noted by Neowin, this Dev channel release marks the first time Microsoft has put out a new build of Edge in line with Google’s shorter four-week update cycle. The Edge preview build 94.0.992.1 is the last build for version 94 and brings support for the downloads pop-up in PWAs and websites that are installed as apps. Edge users can also open local HTML or web files on iPhones and iPads, and there’s a new interface for WebView2 to launch the Browser Task Manager and listen for browser exits....

Microsoft officials recently said Teams now has 250 million monthly active users but have not shared any information on how many of those are using Teams consumer features.

Do they try so very hard to change, yet their old foibles return again and again to annoy and destroy everyone’s mood? Is one of your friends Microsoft? I only wonder because I’m becoming increasingly baffled by Redmond’s behavior in one specific area of its business. It has an excellent product called Edge. Yet it doesn’t advertise it. It doesn’t show customers just how excellent it is. Instead, Microsoft chooses to force it upon them like a cruel school nurse in a 1950s British horror movie....

Microsoft’s vertical clouds are meant to give partners and customers a set of industry-specific components upon which they can build and customize their own solutions. The common data model underpinning all of its vertical clouds is Dataverse, the technology formerly known as the Common Data Service.

The Salesforce app for Teams has been available in preview since October. It replicates the Salesforce CRM app for Slack, allowing joint Teams and Salesforce customers to mention various Salesforce records in Teams channels and chats, such as opportunities, accounts, cases, contacts, and leads. Service teams can also improve coordination and response times to open cases to help keep customers happy, reduce the support loads, and cut out productivity barriers caused by switching between Teams and Salesforce....

This includes a redesigned landing page with better categories of curated apps. The new store is rolling out over the next month, according to a Microsoft blogpost. Microsoft has struggled to make the Microsoft Store for Windows 10/11 appealing, but it’s pressing ahead with a visual revamp of the Teams desktop client’s app store to make new apps easier to discover and install. The first change is a new carousel at the top of the page displaying apps that users might find interesting....

Teams has become an important app for video meetings and chat for millions of Office users who could soon be gaining a leisure-focused social option with casual games integrated with Teams. The games for Teams idea follows a plethora of more serious group-meeting enhancements Microsoft has rolled out in the last couple of years like Together mode, background scenes, echo cancelation and anti-interruption features, and background noise cancelation and music detection....

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) kicked off its own investigation into an April 2022 report by security vendor Recorded Future about a “likely Chinese state-sponsored” threat actor targeting the Indian power sector for the past two years. Recorded Future listed over a dozen network indicators of compromise (IOCs) it had observed between late 2021 and Q1 2022 that were used in 38 intrusions against multiple organisations in India’s energy sector....

Also: Your Netflix subscription includes Nike fitness classes now. How to access them Netflix said in its Q4 2022 earnings report that it will be rolling out paid sharing “more broadly later in Q1 ‘23” following its trial in parts of South America. The company expects some “cancel reaction” in each market as it rolls out paid sharing, but also expects subscriptions to pick up in the second quarter, resulting in better overall revenues – the company’s main metric right now....

Here we help break down the difference between a money order and a cashier’s check so you can make the right decision for your finances, whether you are buying a new home or sending your kid sister birthday money. Also: What is a cashier’s check? Definition, cost, uses, and how to get one It does function like a check in some ways, though. The payee is the person that receives the funds, while the payer has the opportunity to stop payment if needed....

The smartphone maker, which has built one of the industry’s more interesting lineups, has a strategy that revolves around value pricing and bringing innovation down market. Doug Michau, executive director of North American Business Development at Motorola Mobility, noted that “value and innovation are not mutually exclusive.” Indeed, the Moto g family is a good mix of budget-friendly innovation. Not that the Moto g Pure doesn’t have a few drawbacks....

Mozilla reworked the site to improve its navigability, homepage, and logo, which it said was chosen by the MDN community’s more than 60,000 contributors. MDN was initially launched in 2005 as a way to promote innovation within the developer community, but users have long complained of issues with the experience on the site. “MDN has undergone many changes in its 16-year history… It’s no surprise that the user experience became somewhat inconsistent throughout the website,” Mozilla explained in a blog post....

The update to myGov’s user count was revealed as part of the DTA’s latest annual report [PDF], which added that the myGovID app’s download count almost doubled to over 3.5 million downloads, while the number of digital identities created by Australians more than doubled from almost 1.3 million to 2.8 million. The government agency attributed the growth to myGov enhancements, such as access to COVID-19 vaccination certificates, which are mandatory for going into stores and travelling overseas across many of Australia’s states and territories....

In other words, less than a third of folks in many countries are at what is considered to be a healthy body weight. No wonder there’s such a boom in weight loss programs and fitness gear. Addressing the elephant in the room Writing for the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health, researcher Amanda Montgomery has put out a resource guide entitled Addressing weight stigma and fatphobia in public health....

SEE: Here’s how NASA’s astronauts are preparing to go to the Moon Artemis I is the first phase of the Artemis mission, in which the Space Launch System (SLS) will launch the Orion spacecraft into Earth orbit where it will travel 40,000 miles beyond the Moon in a four to six-week mission. Through this unmanned test flight, NASA hopes to learn more about their deep space exploration systems to send astronauts to the moon and Mars....

“Over the last few months, through some significant storm events, we saw higher-than-expected fault numbers on our FTTC network in particular geographies,” NBN CEO Stephen Rue said. “We quickly set up a group within our engineering team to investigate and we also retrieved damaged devices for analysis. What we are finding is that this is a complex issue; it is not a simple case of lightning travelling down a wire and tripping a fuse....

While eSafety is an Australian agency, the “safety by design” assessment tools are available globally, as the majority of tech industry innovation occurs far away from Australia’s shores. Released today are two interactive assessment tools: The startup edition for early-stage technology companies and the enterprise edition for mid-tier or enterprise companies. “For tech companies developing platforms that enable social interaction, safety risks should be assessed upfront. Protective measures need to be put in at the start of the product design and development process....