On the Tech Community forums, Microsoft announced an update for the unified Office app on Android that combines Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Microsoft Lens, and Sticky Notes in a single app. The main highlight of that update is a new cards view called "File Cards."
Cloud Gaming Beta is now available in Xbox app for Windows
Microsoft continues expanding the availability of its game streaming service, Project xCloud, to more platforms and users. After bringing the service to iOS, Microsoft is making xCloud available in the Xbox app for Windows in an attempt to "make gaming available to all players around the world" or 22 countries to be precise.
Almost 90% of Steam users run Windows 10
Steam Hardware Survey for July 2021 reveals the latest data about gamers' hardware and software preferences. According to Steam, almost 90% of users (89.66%, to be precise) prefer Windows 10 over any other platform (it is not like they have that much choice). Now-unsupported Windows 7 remains relatively popular with 5.48% of users. Combined with the 32-bit version, Windows 7 occupies 5.59% of the entire userbase and sits tightly in second place.
Windows 11 Add Windows Terminal Profiles to Context Menu
In Windows 11, you can add Windows Terminal Profiles to the context menu in File Explorer. So that you will be able to launch it in the current folder directly with the desired profile, without switching to it.
Edge 94 can immediately put inactive tabs to sleep
Microsoft continues improving Performance Mode (recently renamed to Efficiency Mode) with new features and capabilities to let you run the Edge browser as smoothly as possible, even on budget hardware. "Sleeping Tabs" is a cornerstone of Efficiency Mode that allows you to save RAM and CPU resources by putting inactive pages to sleep. In Edge 92 Stable, the browser freezes tabs after no less than 5 minutes of inactivity. In Edge 94, that timeout reduced almost to zero.
Surface Laptops, Pros, and Surface Book 3 received August 2021 firmware update
Microsoft continues providing active support for its Surface devices by shipping monthly firmware updates. This time, fresh patches are available for Surface Laptop Go, the original Surface Laptop, Surface Book 3, Surface Pro 5, 6, and 7. As usual, these updates bring minor changes and improvements without new features.
Windows 11 Check Activation Status
If you are wondering how to check the Activation status in Windows 11, we will show you two reliable methods for that.
Disable Wakeup Password in Windows 11 for Sleep and Modern Standby
You can disable Wakeup Password in Windows 11 for Sleep, Modern Standby, and Hibernate states and stop Windows 11 from asking you for sign-in on wakeup. There are plenty of methods you can use to change this behavior. In this post, we will reviewed them all.
Enable Save as PDF Command in Microsoft Edge Context Menu
Microsoft Edge allows you to enable the Save as PDF context menu command in Microsoft Edge. A new option in settings makes it easy to add or remove it.
Firefox for Android can now auto-fill passwords in other apps
Mozilla is updating its mobile variant of the Firefox browser to handle passwords in other installed apps. Firefox Nightly can auto-fill saved passwords in all other apps on Android.
