Microsoft to Let Some Employees Work From Home Permanently

As of the end of June, Microsoft employed 163,000 people, 96,000 of them in the US, according to a securities filing. Workers can chose permanent work from home with their manager’s approvalEmployees to spend less than 50 percent of time working from homeMicrosoft also says it values employees being together in the workplace Software giant

Winstall: Now Bulk install Windows apps with it’s microsoft package manager.

Microsoft is adding a native Windows Package Manager to Windows 10 soon, but it’s limited to a command line interface instead of an easy to use GUI. While many will be happy to just be able to install apps from the command line, Tweeten developer Mehedi Hassan has created winstall — a web app that

TikTok Parent ByteDance Picks Oracle as Partner, Beating Microsoft

Oracle said it was part of a proposal submitted by ByteDance to the US Treasury in which it would serve as TikTok’s “trusted technology provider.” Oracle’s chairman Ellison is one of the tech world’s few Trump supportersByteDance informed Microsoft that it won’t be selling it TikTok USWalmart said it was still interested in investing in

On Teachers’ Day, Microsoft Teams announces new features for virtual classroom

Teachers now will have more control in ‘Terms of Education’

Microsoft to rebrand Bing search engine for better visibility.

Microsoft is working to rebrand its search engine Bing and the developer community has witnessed visible changes to the service in the recent past. There’s no official announcement to date but Microsoft has either expanded what appears to be A/B testing – where some people see the old Bing brand and logo and some see “Microsoft Bing” – or has

New Chinese rules could complicate a sale of TikTok’s US business

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