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On this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott reflect on Intel’s recent talks about new AI, discuss why ARM continues to be the hope, and wonder if neural processing units (NPUs) really matter.

MC778782 – Microsoft is introducing new branding and management capabilities that you can use to improve consistency across your sites and pages. Our new SharePoint brand center will create a centralized branding management application that will empower your brand managers or designated users to empower site owners to create and manage the brand assets needed…

MC778783 – Microsoft is introducing new branding and management capabilities that you can use to improve consistency across your sites and pages. Our new SharePoint brand center will create a centralized branding management application that will empower your brand managers or designated users to empower site owners to create and manage the brand assets needed…

MC789607 – In an effort to improve and consolidate our services, Microsoft will be retiring the Stream mobile apps on July 1st, 2024. Instead, Microsoft recommends the utilization of the OneDrive and Microsoft 365 mobile apps, which is where the company will continue to invest our development resources. When this will happen: July 1, 2024 How…

MC790242 – Currently, in Microsoft Defender for Office 365, when a notification message is reported by an end user and arrives at the reporting mailbox, the subject lines begin with: Moving forward, the subject lines of notification messages reported by end users will start with This change is being made to ensure readability and enable you…

Microsoft Loop is the next best thing since… well productivity and note-taking app ‘Notion’. This Week in IT, I look at how Microsoft is planning to challenge Notion and how current features are building towards a big update that customers have requested from Microsoft. Links and resources Transcript Microsoft Loop is the next best thing…

MC789611 – Coming soon: In Microsoft Teams: users will be able to right-click any message and react to it directly from the right-click menu. With this rollout, Microsoft is adding reactions to the right-click menu to give users another way to react to messages. This rollout applies to Teams for the web and Teams for…

MC704952 – Updated May 1, 2024: Microsoft has updated the content below to show as intended. Thank you for your patience. Microsoft Teams is now introducing enhancements on top of Teams Connect for chats. With the Teams Connect chat extended directory, IT admins can create an external directory of known external collaborators using their phone numbers….

MC788944 – The cloud.microsoft domain was provisioned in early 2023 to provide a unified, trusted, and dedicated DNS domain space to host Microsoft’s first party authenticated SaaS products and experiences. This post is to inform admins that the following Microsoft products and scenarios are now available at the cloud.microsoft domain, in parallel with the previous domains. A…

MC761227 – Note: If your organization does not use Teams phone devices, you can disregard this message. Coming soon: OnMicrosoft Teams certified non-touch phones (physical button phones without touch experience), users will have advanced calling and contact management features. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 388494. When this will happen: General Availability (Worldwide,…