If it wasn’t free, High Sierra might be a hard sell for casual users. The most meaningful updates are mostly below the surface — the first full macOS upgrade to do so since 2009’s Snow Leopard. The first public beta of the OS arrives today, and while I’ve been playing around with a build of the software on [...]
Google, which has accused Symantec and its partners of misissuing tens of thousands of certificates for encrypted web connections, quietly announced Thursday that it’s downgrading the level and length of trust Chrome will place in certificates issued by Symantec. Encrypted web connections — HTTPS connections like those on banking sites, login pages or news sites like [...]
Microsoft has rolled out Microsoft Teams, the company's new chat-based workspace in Office 365. The new tool for team collaboration is now available to Office 365 business customers in 181 markets, including South Africa, and services 19 languages. The product aims to enable customers to collaborate within their organisations. Since announcing the preview in November, [...]
Handwriting is a skill that feels personal and unique to all of us. Everyone has a slightly different style -- a weird quirk or a seemingly illegible scrawl -- that's nearly impossible for a computer to replicate, especially as our own penmanship fluctuates from one line to the next. A team at University College London [...]
Microsoft Word 2016 succeeds the 2013 version with enhanced collaboration and mobile productivity. However, you might not like your buying options if you're not an Office 365 subscriber. Pros Familiar interface and better collaboration: Microsoft Word 2016 retains the ribbon interface introduced in 2007, as well as the flat aesthetic of Office 2013. Document collaboration [...]
