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Yesterday, we launched a poll to learn how we can improve this newsletter—and early numbers show that you'd like to see more links in the "Tips & Tricks for the Digital Workplace" section. I typically curate those links from a handful of well-known sites, but I'm interested to hear about any other sources you rely on. Where do you learn how to get the most out of Google Sheets? What are your favorite resources to help you tame files in Windows 10? Share 'em all with me in this thread—and if you wouldn't mind, respond to the poll while you're at it!

What You Need To Know Today Microsoft’s Cortana Meets an Untimely End on iOS and Android Ars Technica Microsoft's Cortana app for iOS and Android will soon shut down, the company has announced on a support page. This effectively puts a nail in Cortana's coffin for consumer use cases, at least as far as competing directly with Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa goes. SaaSOps Stories With Lauren Tibbs, Global IT Director at KeepTruckin BetterCloud Monitor Last year, we sat down with Lauren Tibbs to chat about her career in management and how her team enabled KeepTruckin to make the sudden shift from an office-first to remote work environment when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Check out what she had to say in this blog post. Ubiquiti Confirms Extortion Attempt Following Security Breach BleepingComputer Networking device maker Ubiquiti has confirmed that it was the target of an extortion attempt following a January security breach, as revealed by a whistleblower earlier this week. The company, however, didn't confirm the whistleblower's claims that user data was accessed during the incident or that the attackers stole any Ubiquiti source code. New Research Shows That Near-Term Quantum Computers Can Learn To Reason Neowin UK-based startup Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) has now demonstrated that quantum computers "can learn to reason". Confusing at first, this claim is based upon new research coming out of CQC. Dr. Mattia Fiorentini, Head of Quantum Machine Learning at the firm, and his team of researchers investigated using quantum computers for Variational Inference.

Tips & Tricks for the Digital Workplace How to Use Headers and Footers in Microsoft Word Like a Pro MakeUseOf In Microsoft Word, the top margin of a page is called its header, and the bottom margin is called the footer. Headers and footers are especially useful for including information that you want to display on every page, or specific pages. Learn how to get more out of headers and footers in Word. How to Run Windows 3’s File Manager in Windows 10 How-To Geek Throwback alert! Microsoft’s vintage File Manager program, which originally shipped with Windows 3.0 in 1990, has been ported to Windows 10, and it’s available for free from Microsoft. Here’s how to get it.

What's Happening in the SaaSOps Community How Do You Manage Windows Computers When You’re a (Mostly) Mac Shop? SaaSOps Community Here's one that caught my attention today. One community member manages a shop that's 95% Macs, but there are a handful of Windows computers in the org. How would you tackle this challenge? Click the link above to chime in on the conversation.

Automatically Save Your Response Progress in Google Forms: Beta Available for Google Workspace for Education Customers Google Workspace Updates Next week, Google is launching draft responses for Google Forms in beta. When responding to a Google Form, Quiz or Quiz assignment in Classroom while signed into your Google Workspace account, your progress will automatically be saved as a draft for 30 days from your last edit or until the form is completed.

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