Microsoft says it will shut down Skype on May 5 and directs users to migrate all their contacts and chat data to Teams; Skype had 36M+ DAUs in 2023
Microsoft has announced it is discontinuing … Thomas Stevenson / The Post Millennial : Microsoft to shut down Skype in two months, company says switch to Teams David Phelan / Forbes : Microsoft Kills ...
Mozilla updates Firefox desktop and mobile apps with a revamped design, details the data-driven process used to guide the creation of the new streamlined look
Even though we're in the web browser business … Arthur Edelstein / Mozilla Security Blog : Firefox 89 upgrades Private Browsing Windows with Total Cookie Protection Mozilla : See what's new in Firefox...
Comprehensive macOS 11.0 Big Sur review: the end of OS X era
Talking With Apple! Chance Miller / 9to5Mac : Apple VPs talk M1 Macs, Rosetta 2 translation, and more in new interviews Erik Engheim / The Startup : PC Users in Denial About Apple Silicon Performance ...
Matt Mullenweg says Automattic will add IAP for WordPress.com plans to WordPress iOS app after Apple froze app updates and demanded the addition
❗ Punctuation matters Paul Thurrott / Thurrott : Apple's At It Again, This Time With WordPress Joe Wituschek / iMore : WordPress says Apple has blocked it from updating its iOS app Surur / MSPoweruser...
Google releases Android 11 Beta 1 for Pixel phones, with updates to messaging notifications, ability for message threads to pop out in bubbles, and more
here are the best new features Rajesh Pandey / Neowin : Android 11 beta program will support non-Pixel devices, OPPO Find X2 support confirmed Msmash / Slashdot : Android 11 Will Help You Rein In Zomb...
Google plans to phase out support for user-agent strings in Chrome, opting for a new technology called Client Hints, as part of its Privacy Sandbox project
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet : Tweets: @campuscodi Tweets: Catalin Cimpanu / @campuscodi : NEW: Google to phase out user-agent strings in Chrome * UA strings to be replaced with Client Hints * Move is par...
Google adds a chat feature to Google Photos, rolling out over the next week to iOS, Android, and the web
use it before it's axed Pranob Mehrotra / XDA Developers : Google Photos adds private messaging to make it easier to share photos Pradeep / MSPoweruser : Google adds new private messaging feature in G...
Brave ad-blocking browser moves to Chromium codebase, now supports Chrome extensions but says it won't integrate any Google-based features
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet : Tweets: @campuscodi and @nathonsecurity Tweets: Catalin Cimpanu / @campuscodi : Brave ditches Muon UI and goes full Chromium. Gets 22% speed boost and support for Chrome ext...
To cut costs, Mozilla begins testing alternative plugins like Chrome's PDFium in Firefox to replace its own internal implementations
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Facebook launches Messenger platform with chatbots
Facebook users will soon be able … Mike Rosenbaum / salesforce.com : Introducing Salesforce for Messenger Al Plumlier / The Verge : There will be a bot for everything — It's all happening at once … ...