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Issue #37 / 05-FEB-24

Announcing Microsoft 365 apps available on Apple Vision Pro

Microsoft has some exciting news: Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, and Loop are all available on the App Store in Apple Vision Pro. Microsoft is committed to providing customers with great Microsoft 365 experiences across their favorite platforms and devices, and it has worked closely with Apple for many years to bring these experiences to iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Now, with Apple Vision Pro, these apps make use of the infinite canvas of spatial computing and can appear side by side at any scale for incredible multitasking.

New Year, New Look for OneDrive for personal use

OneDrive has a brand-new update that makes it faster and more intuitive than ever before. With a sleek new interface and powerful new features, OneDrive is here to help you simplify your life and get more done in less time. The new features and upgraded design make it faster to get to all your personal and shared files in OneDrive so you can focus your time on things that matter most to you. All changes will be available to all customers by the end of February.

Decorate your background in Microsoft Teams Premium, now available

The “Decorate your background” feature in Microsoft Teams makes meetings more fun and personal by using AI to spruce up your meeting background. And now, it is generally available to all Teams Premium customers. With this feature, you can seamlessly blend your physical and digital spaces, enabling you to revamp what’s seen of your physical meeting space for each call. The technology allows for effortless room clean-ups, adding virtual plants, or festive decorations for special events, all without the need for a frequent interior designer consultation.

Announcing edit support for .vsd files in Visio for the web

Visio for the web is constantly evolving to meet the needs of Microsoft customers. Now, there is a new feature that will make it easier for you to work with older Visio files directly in the web app. Users with a Visio Plan 1 or Visio Plan 2 license can now edit .vsd files in Visio for the web, without losing data. Visio Drawing (.vsd) file format is the native format for Visio files created in the desktop app prior to version 2013. These files were not fully supported previously and could only be opened in view mode in Visio for the web.

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