Oh hey just so nobody gets the wrong impression from my question about Linux above, here's some Microsoft news. ^^
First, the latest update to Windows 10 begins rolling out next month. It's not a MAJOR release, but there are some new features and changes. This video goes over the important ones. It's narrated by someone named Cody, so you know it's quality info.
Aside from that stuff, at the end of last month MS hosted a sort of half-hour press-only video presentation, which covered new changes to Microsoft 365, formerly Office 365. The changes involve some big additions to the Word, PowerPoint, and Excel apps, and Edge Chromium, as well as a couple of new applications that are being made available to 365 subscribers, such as a "Family Safety" app and a consumer-facing version of Microsoft Teams.
Earlier this month, the video presentation was put up on 365's Youtube channel for anyone to watch. It is here:
But like I said it's a half hour long so you'll have to decide if you care enough.
Here's the blog announcement if you want to read instead. The new stuff IS kinda neat, though and the video demos some of it. The most interesting to me:
Edge is getting a new "Password Monitor" feature. If you let Edge act as your password manager, the Monitor feature
alerts you if Microsoft detects that any of your account credentials have been compromised and posted to the internet by baddies, and gives you a link to the relevant website(s) so that you can change your password(s) immediately. Which, you know, is pretty nice.
The second is a new feature for Excel called "Money for Excel", and is useful if you use an Excel spreadsheet to manage your personal budget. It basically allows you to
let Excel interface with your financial institutions and import things like your account balances and transaction lists. The interface is one-way; you can't manipulate your accounts via Excel or anything like that. But, it can pull the numbers and auto-populate your budget workbook so you don't have to copy that stuff over. And Excel being Excel, the workbook itself is infinitely customizable, unlike commercial budget-tracking apps. The one hitch is, unlike the new Edge features which will be available to anyone when they finally go live, this particular feature is for 365 subscribers only.