ZDNet | In September, Microsoft confirmed it was ending support for Adobe Flash Player on its Chromium-based Edge and legacy Edge browsers as well as Internet Explorer 11 at the end of 2020. But the company also detailed future enterprise support options for customers that need to retain Flash for line-of-business applications.
BetterCloud Monitor | To learn more about the state of SaaS and SaaSOps, BetterCloud recently surveyed nearly 700 IT leaders and practitioners from a wide range of company sizes and industries. The full report is worth carving out some time to read. But here are 10 findings from the report that took many of us by surprise.
The Verge | Microsoft is overhauling Excel with the ability to support custom live data types. Excel users have been using Microsoft’s spreadsheet tool for decades to import, organize, and analyze data, but the basic data types have always been limited to text and numbers. While Microsoft has added dynamic arrays and some custom stocks and geography data types previously, the company is now updating Excel to let people import their own data as a custom data type.
VentureBeat | Processor and graphics firm Advanced Micro Devices has agreed to buy programmable chip maker Xilinx for $35 billion in stock. AMD also reported better-than-expected third-quarter earnings and raised its forecast for fourth-quarter results. The acquisition will help AMD stay competitive with archrival Intel in the datacenter, where programmable chips have become increasingly popular
How-To Geek | Microsoft Edge now has vertical tabs, which can be a great tool on modern widescreen displays. Here’s how to get a vertical tab sidebar in the Chromium-based version of Microsoft Edge.
TechRepublic | Video games aren't just for playtime. Game streamers have figured out the best techniques for broadcasting quality video from home, which is a trick many of us need.
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BetterCloud Monitor | Last week, Microsoft released a pretty big overhaul to the Office experience on iPad. Plus, Google Google announced enhanced support for Google Workspace. Oh yeah, you can finally set your status as "away" in Google Chat. Read more about these updates and everything else that happened last week in the links.
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