by Theresa Miller | Jul 19, 2018 | Adam Fowler, Microsoft Technology, Windows
Is Speech Recognition or Dictation in Windows 10 Good Enough Yet? In the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (1803), a new voice recognition option turned up. There was still the older ‘Windows Speech Recognition’ which has been around for a while, but Dictation...
by Theresa Miller | Apr 17, 2018 | Microsoft 365, Sonia Cuff
Earlier this month, some Microsoft Cloud services had an unexpected outage. It didn’t affect all regions globally and wasn’t a direct services failure, but an issue with the authentication platform Azure Active Directory. The bad parts I noticed the issue when my...
by Theresa Miller | Nov 21, 2017 | Sonia Cuff
Microsoft kicked off their free, global Tech Summit event in Sydney on 16 & 17 November. This is their first attempt at this event format which is travelling to 13 countries around the world, with a US series also planned. So, what was different and did it work?...
by Theresa Miller | Oct 17, 2017 | Sonia Cuff, Windows
When Microsoft announced the Microsoft 365 solution set, a lot of people scratched their heads and wondered what they were thinking. Did this replace Office 365? Was it just a marketing wrapper bundle of existing products? Microsoft staff still get hassled about the...
by Theresa Miller | Aug 15, 2017 | Cloud, Sonia Cuff
Australia’s capital city, Canberra, is a very important battle ground for the major technology vendors. Google and Microsoft both like to be seen in the press among the nation’s government heads and decision makers. While Google have had a few wins, Microsoft’s latest...